The digital library for earth system education: building community, building the library
Communications of the ACM
Looking at digital library usability from a reuse perspective
Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Understanding educator perceptions of "quality" in digital libraries
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Finding and using data in educational digital libraries
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Digital libraries and educational practice: a case for new models
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Web search strategies and human individual differences: A combined analysis: Research Articles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Using strand maps to engage digital library users with science content
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Insights into collections gaps through examination of null result searches in DLESE
Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Towards automatic conceptual personalization tools
Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Curriculum overlay model for embedding digital resources
Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
A study of teachers' use of online learning resources to design classroom activities
The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia - Special issue: Observing users of digital educational technologies
Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM/IEEE joint conference on Digital libraries
IPKB: a digital library for invertebrate paleontology
Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital Libraries
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A three-part study of teachers' use of online resources and of the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) was conducted from 2004 through summer 2006. The first two phases were qualitative and informed a survey administered to 622 science teachers across the U.S., one-fifth of whom had used DLESE. The findings present a profile of teachers and their access to Internet-connected computers and other hardware/electronic media devices in their classrooms; and teachers' preferences for resource formats (e.g., customizability) and educational web site features (e.g., tagged reading level). Analysis of variance showed that teachers with more than one working computer and teachers with more other devices valued the Internet more highly for teaching than did their less equipped peers. DLESE users valued the Internet more highly for their teaching, had more years teaching experience, and valued customizable resources more than their non-DLESE using peers. Most believed that resources catalogued in DLESE were scientifically accurate. Teachers used DLESE most often for finding hands-on activities, still images and other visual aids, and hand-outs; they were least likely to seek people, games, or assessment tools. The findings provide guidance for developers of K12 educational resources.