Children's interests and concerns when using the international children's digital library: A four-country case study

Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 167-176

  Druin, Allison ^a   Weeks, Ann ^a   Massey, Sheri ^a   Bederson, Benjamin B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Digital libraries; Qualitative case study

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTING INTERVIEWS; QUALITATIVE CASE STUDY; READING MOTIVATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

DATA ACQUISITION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 36349014339     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1255175.1255207     Document Type: Conference Paper

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