Toward a model of children's information seeking behavior in using digital libraries

IIiX'08: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Information Interaction in Context

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 145-151

  Bilal, Dania ^a   Sarangthem, Sonia ^a   Bachir, Imad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Children; Digital information environments; Digital interfaces; Digital libraries; Information seeking behavior; International Children's Digital Library (ICDL); International web interfaces; Kids; Models

Indexed keywords

CHILDREN; DIGITAL INFORMATION ENVIRONMENTS; DIGITAL INTERFACES; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S DIGITAL LIBRARY (ICDL); INTERNATIONAL WEB INTERFACES; KIDS;

INFORMATION USE; LIBRARIES;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 62949241288     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1414694.1414727     Document Type: Conference Paper

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