The International Children's Digital Library: Viewing Digital Books Online

摘要

Reading books plays an important role in children's cognitive and social development. However, many children do not have access to diverse collections ofbooks due to the limited resources of their community libraries. We have begunto address this issue by creating a large-scale digital archive of children'sbooks, the International Children's Digital Library (ICDL). In this paper wediscuss our initial efforts in building the ICDL, concentrating on an informalevaluation of innovative digital book readers.KeywordsChildren, digital libraries, books, book readers, graphical user interfaces.(UMIACS-TR-2002-09)(HCIL-TR-2002-03)