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Item The International Children's Digital Library: Description and Analysis of First Use(2003-01-21) Druin, Allison; Bederson, Benjamin B.; Weeks, Ann; Farber, Allison; Grosjean, Jesse; Guha, Mona Leigh; Hourcade, Juan Pablo; Lee, Juhyun; Liao, Sabrina; Reuter, Kara; Rose, Anne; Takayama, Yoshifumi; Zhang, LinglingIn this paper we describe the first version of the International Children's Digital Library (ICDL). As a five-year research project, its mission is to enable children to access and read an international collection of children's books through the development of new interface technologies. This paper will describe the need for such research, our work in the context of other digital libraries for children, and an initial analysis of the first seven weeks of the ICDL's public use on the web. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.7 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: Digital Libraries - Dissemination, User Issues; H.5.2 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: User Interfaces - Graphical User Interfaces (UMIACS-TR-2003-04) (HCIL-TR-2003-02)Item The International Children's Digital Library: Viewing Digital Books Online(2003-01-21) Hourcade, Juan Pablo; Bederson, Benjamin B.; Druin, Allison; Rose, Anne; Farber, Allison; Takayama, YoshifumiReading books plays an important role in children's cognitive and social development. However, many children do not have access to diverse collections of books due to the limited resources of their community libraries. We have begun to address this issue by creating a large-scale digital archive of children's books, the International Children's Digital Library (ICDL). In this paper we discuss our initial efforts in building the ICDL, concentrating on an informal evaluation of innovative digital book readers. Keywords Children, digital libraries, books, book readers, graphical user interfaces. (UMIACS-TR-2002-09) (HCIL-TR-2002-03)Item The International Children's Library: Viewing Digital Books Online(2003-06-04) Hourcade, Juan Pablo; Bederson, Benjamin B.; Druin, Allison; Rose, Anne; Farber, Allison; Takayama, YoshifumiReading books plays an important role in children's cognitive and social development. However, many children do not have access to diverse collections of books due to the limited resources of their community libraries. We have begun to address this issue by creating a large-scale digital archive of children's books, the International Children's Digital Library (ICDL). In this paper we discuss our initial efforts in building the ICDL, concentrating on the design of innovative digital book readers. (UMIACS-TR-2003-43) (HCIL-2003-17)