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Initial Findings from a Three-Year International Case Study Exploring Children's Responses to Literature in a Digital Library

Massey, Sheri; Weeks, Ann Carlson; Druin, Allison

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Title
Initial Findings from a Three-Year International Case Study Exploring Children's Responses to Literature in a Digital Library
Author(s)
  • Massey, Sheri
  • Weeks, Ann Carlson
  • Druin, Allison
Issue Date
2005
Keyword(s)
  • Children and digital resources
  • Digital libraries
Abstract
This article examines children’s responses to self-selected books in a digital library and begins to identify patterns in those responses. As part of a larger longitudinal study, the study presented here is an analysis of 241 book response forms submitted by 12 children from 4 countries: Germany, Honduras, New Zealand, and the United States. The children described most of the books they read as being funny or happy and generally rated them with four or fi ve stars (out of fi ve stars). The most commonly identifi ed types of responses were those expressing like or dislike, summarizing the text, or explaining how the book made the child feel. Two factors were identifi ed that infl uenced response patterns from the study sites: the data collection instrument and adult mediation. This research has implications for library program development related to recreational reading and for changes in the procedures for data collection in this area of research.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/3479
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Copyright 2005 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.

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Library Trends 54 (2) Fall 2005: Children's Access and Use of Digital Resources PRIMARY
Library Trends 54 (2) Fall 2005: Children's Access and Use of Digital Resources. Edited by Allison Druin