[WEB4LIB] opacs for children

[Michael Shochet]

A few years ago at an American Libraries Association/Canadian Libraries Association joint conference I saw a prof. Jamshid Beheshti of McGill University talk about work he was doing on designing interfaces for children.  His worked focused on the design of "portal" for children, but I would think his research would be applicable to OPAC design as well.

He has a vitae, which includes citations of articles he has authored on designing web interfaces for children, available online:
http://www.gslis.mcgill.ca/Beheshti_CV.htm

Michael Shochet
Systems/Reference Librarian
Langsdale Library, University of Baltimore
http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/
mshochet at ubalt.edu
410-837-4277



-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Janine Bendel
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 6:28 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] opacs for children


Dear Ms. and Mr., 

I´m studying library science in berlin (germany) and at the moment I´m writing my master thesis with the topic "opac´s for children". My aim is an international comparison and as a basement I chose the "Best- Practice-Recherche" (Bertelsmann) with the following countries: USA, England, Denmark, Finland and Singapore. Till now I found predominant eldery literature about these topic (f.e. "Bücherschatz" in Hamburg; formerly studies: P. Solomon, V. Walter), not so much in the bibliographies (LISA, LiLi) but also some interesting new projects in the internet (f.e. in Maryland and Denmark). I´ve also talked with many librarians and next I´ll contact some software companies. Can anybody give me some more advices or do you know persons to talk to for me?

Thank you!


Yours sincerely

Janine Bendel


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