The International Children's Digital Library: viewing digital books online
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The International Children's Digital Library: viewing digital books online
Reading 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 o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Interacting with Computers
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0953-5438
DOI: 10.1016/s0953-5438(03)00005-5