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Expanding Children’s Digital Literacy Experiences and Skills: Public Library Practices in Guangzhou, China

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This paper analyzes a series of digital literacy instruction programs provided by Guangzhou Children’s Library and Guangzhou Library, the main large public libraries providing services for children in Guangzhou. The paper found that all the programs were presented in the forms of games and contests that attracted learners and had good effects on expanding children’s digital literacy experiences and skills. Some guidelines were developed to help public libraries to successfully delivery digital literacy training and services for children in their communities including: making a good plan; identifying specific learning outcomes; promoting to the public; cooperating with other organizations to conduct digital literacy instruction; and, developing online digital literacy resources.

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This paper is supported by the program “A Survey on Children and Young Peoples’s Reading Habits in Guangzhou”.

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  1. School of Information Management, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

    Qiong Tang & Yantao Pan

  2. Guangzhou Children’s Library, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

    Cuihong Wu

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  1. Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

    Joumana Boustany

  3. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  4. University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA

    Esther Grassian

  5. University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  6. University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA

    Loriene Roy

  7. Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Tolga Çakmak

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Tang, Q., Wu, C., Pan, Y. (2016). Expanding Children’s Digital Literacy Experiences and Skills: Public Library Practices in Guangzhou, China. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., et al. Information Literacy: Key to an Inclusive Society. ECIL 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 676. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52162-6_46

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