Middle school children's use of the ARTEMIS digital library

Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 98-105

  Abbas, June ^a   Norris, Cathleen ^b   Soloway, Elliott ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^c University of Michigan   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Information retrieval; Information seeking; Representation; Scaffolds

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

INFORMATION SEEKING; REPRESENTATION;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 0036989401     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/544238.544239     Document Type: Conference Paper

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