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This digital library, produced by the University of the South Pacific, contains publications from participating Ministries of Education throughout the Pacific region, and includes strategic plans, education legislation, curriculum frameworks and school policies.

Anyone can search all the data available on PADDLE to share in the best practices and experience gathered by the fifteen Pacific countries of the project.

The PADDLE archive is made available both on the Internet and on CD-ROMs for Windows and Macintosh, allowing the information it contains to be distributed to locations where Internet access is unreliable or unavailable.

“ DL has been instrumental in the development of the Pacific Archive of Digital Data for Learning and Education (PADDLE). DL’s work has been critical in providing electronic access to Pacific education policy, planning and development publications. DL also worked with us to provide a CD version that has been widely distributed in the region.

PADDLE statistics show that it is widely used by Pacific and international educators and feedback from users has been encouraging, with one person emailing to say “I must say that I am really, really pleased to be able to go online and find so many education documents about the Pacific”. This praise says a lot about the quality of DL’s work.

The PRIDE Project found the DL team great to work with and this relationship is continuing with the digitization of Directions: Journal of Educational Studies. DL have digitized over 1,520 pages of Directions articles and worked with us to ensure that Directions like PADDLE will provide fantastic electronic access to Pacific education material. ”

Libby Cass, Information Specialist, Pacific Regional Initiatives for the Delivery of basic Education (PRIDE), The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji