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.. Dissertation: The Cultural Origins of Youth Services Librarianship, 1876-1900Dissertation Abstract: Public library youth services developed during the period from 1876 to 1900, in the context of late 19th century beliefs about the importance of childhood and the power of reading. This dissertation analyzes the cultural forces that influenced the negotiation and growth of the development of public library services to children. A number of preceding but more transient forms of library services in such institutions as Sunday Schools and young men's associations informed librarians' discussions in 1876, when they first began addressing the needs of children in professional writings. Early models of youth services emphasized the authority of teachers, limiting children's borrowing to those materials that augmented school lessons. By the late 1880s, librarians began providing direct, personal service to children, formalizing their own expertise and authority by making lists of approved books for young readers. Librarians were influenced by Progressive Era movements including the kindergarten, settlement house, child study, and home libraries movements to further expand their offerings for children by exploring new ways of attracting and capturing children's interest. Public library youth services began in the 1890s to include games, picture collections, story hours, and reading clubs. By 1900, these developments were formalized in training programs for children's librarians and the formation of a national organization of professional childrens' librarians within the American Library Association. These findings about cultural origins of youth services librarianship shed new light on how this specialty developed, and they offer a vantage point from which to reassess contemporary youth services in public libraries as a product of late 19th century debates about the importance of reading as an influence on children's characters. .. Performing Girlhood, Performing Self: The Alice Books by Phyllis Reynolds NaylorThis poster was presented at the Children's Literature Association Annual Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on June 10, 2005.
Special thanks to the UIUC Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and the UIUC Graduate College, both of which provided travel assistance for my presentation at the conference. .. Dissertation Proposal: The Reading of the Young Reports and the Professionalization of Library Services to Youth in the United States from 1876-1900
..Guiding Children's Reading: Surveys of Youth Services Methods and Emerging Professional Specialization Before 1900 (currently under revision)..Using Student Stories in Theoretical Frameworks: A Pedagogical Strategy for Distance Education..Girls in Britches: Gender and Cross-Dressing in Bloody Jack and the True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (abstract only, paper in review with Children's Literature Association Quarterly)..Change and Continuity in Professional Community: The PUBYAC Listserv and Historical Context in Youth Services Librarianship (abstract only, paper in review with Children's Literature Association Quarterly).. Before There Were Children's Librarians: Surveys of Youth Services Methods and Emerging Professional Specialization Before 1900This poster was presented at the 2005 ALISE Conference in Boston, MA on January 12, 2005.
.. Project AthenaThis fellowship, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, focuses on recruiting and educating the doctoral students who will make up the next generation of Library and Information Studies Faculty. My role as a Project Athena Fellow is to network with faculty, students and alumni at a sponsor school (the University of South Florida), giving presentations about LIS doctoral studies and promoting Ph.D. programs. .. Online Bulletin of the Center for Children's BooksI was project manager for creating the first online version of the Bulletin; I directed the consulting company, On the Job Consulting, and assisted with designs for both database and interface. I also coordinated client needs with consultant resources, negotiating both aesthetic and navigational considerations for the publication in light of the consultant company’s software, programming, and design capabilities. .. Teens ReadThe goal of this project, funded by the Illinois State Library, was to connect teens with books, and included both in-person and online components. My primary role in the project was to design and implement the online components of the project, including building the project website and directing programmers from Prairienet in the creation of interactive review boards, where teens could post their own book reviews. I also gave booktalk presentations to middle school classes, promoting reading generally and the Teens Read program specifically. .. Babies Laptime Resource PagesIn the course of my programming practicum at The Urbana Free Library, I realized that there were no web resources for librarians who wanted to begin offering programming for babies and parents. To address this need, I created a website with original resources and bibliographies for babies' lap time programming in public libraries. It has since been linked to by many libraries, including Los Angeles Public Library, and is still mentioned regularly as the top resource on the topic in practitioner discussions on the PUBYAC listserv. .. Urbana Middle School Library WebsiteI designed and built the first website for the Urbana Middle School Library in 1996, when many school libraries did not yet have a web presence. Although periodic updates have been made, elements of my original design and content are still in use as of January 2005. .. Libraries for Incarcerated YouthLibrarians interested in starting or improving a juvenile corrections library will find, as we did, that good sources are essentially absent from the literature. This page serves as a starting point for bringing or improving library services for incarcerated youth. This project was built in collaboration with Lee McLain.
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