چکیده:
As much discussed in literature, the creation of digital libraries should be
informed by user requirements and behaviors (Soergel, 2002). According
to researchers, the best designs for children come from children .This
study describes how the Iranian children use a digital library (ICDL). This
work was done in order to explore and discover new directions for the
development of children digital libraries. It has focused on Iranian
children’s specific needs to Persian literature and technological facilities
using a digital reading environment for pleasure.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Research Questions • What Kind of ICDL's search pages has been preferred and more used by Iranian children?
We observed children's behaviors in using ICDL as the only appropriate children's digital library, which contains over 423 titles of books in Persian language in various types of literature (genre).
This work reports only descriptive information of children's needs and interests in searching, selecting and reading children's literature in Persian language using new technology.
In this case study, the participants were 16 elementary and secondary school children from ages 10 to 14 who were the library members of the “Children Book Council” (CBC) and the “Institute for the Intellectual Development of Kids and Adolescents” in Iran.
Reference to Figure 2 shows that the highest requested genre ranks as the least available one among the other types of literature whereby looking for "Scary/Horror" books in ICDL's Persian collection retrieved only one record (Table 4).
According to the findings of this research, the secondary school participants are more likely to use search by subject than the elementary school children.
Comparing ICDL's holding with participants' interests for the kind of literature (Genre), revealed that there is an intensive shortage in the Persian books collection.
For example, classical Persian poems such as poems of "Hafez" were very popular among these research participants especially secondary children (see Table 2) while by looking for this kind of genre among ICDL's holding we found only 6 lyric poems of "Hafez".