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Purpose–Together, increasing globalization and the internet created fertile grounds for the
establishment of multilingual digital libraries. Providing cross‐lingual access to materials is …

This study explores the ways adolescents create information collaboratively in the digital
environment. In spite of the current widespread practice of information creation by young …

We are living in a multilingual world and the diversity in languages which are used to
interact with information access systems has generated a wide variety of challenges to be …

Everywhere there are children, there are screens, and child–computer interaction is
ubiquitous. Despite their omnipresence, research on the impact of screens on children's …

This paper reports the results of a study that investigated Arabic-speaking children's
interaction with the International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) to find Arabic books on four …

Purpose–The purpose of this study is to provide suggestions that could be adapted to
improve the usability of institutional repository systems, and to establish a usability …

Understanding book‐locating behavior in libraries is important and leads to more effective
services that support patrons throughout the book‐locating process. This study adopted a …

Purpose–This review aims to provide a snapshot of digital library research of the past 11
years (1997‐2007) that focuses on organisational and people issues, including those …

Background Children are very curious. They like to play games but lack reading fluency.
Conventional interfaces for information-seeking in digital libraries are unsuitable for children …