The majority of current digital libraries (DLs) are not designed for children. For DLs to be popular with children, they need to be fun, easy-to-use and empower them, whether as readers or authors. This paper describes a new children's DL emphasizing its design and evaluation, working with the children (11-14 year olds) as design partners and testers. A truly participatory process was used, and observational study was used as a means of refinement to the initial design of the DL prototype. In contrast with current DLs, the children's DL provides both a static as well as a dynamic environment to encourage active engagement of children in using it. Design, implementation and security issues are also raised. Copyright 2001 ACM.
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Theng, Y. L., Mohd-Nasir, N., Buchanan, G., Fields, B., Thimbleby, H., & Cassidy, N. (2001). Dynamic digital libraries for children. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries (pp. 406–415). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/379437.379738
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