Resume

• 2004

  Faculty of Information Studies

  University of Toronto

  For three years I worked with the MLIS and LIS program committees

  LIS students

  faculty and staff to help with curriculum development and reporting.

  Library & Information Science Programs Coordinator

  London

  Canada Area

  Western University

  Faculty of Information & Media Studies

  Faculty of Information & Media Studies

  The University of Western Ontario

  Faculty of Information Studies

  University of Toronto

  Associate Professor

  Faculty of Information & Media Studies

  The University of Western Ontario

• 1999

  PhD

  LIS

• 1997

  MLIS

  Library & Information Science

• 1987

  BA (Honours)

  English

• Academic Writing

  Community Outreach

  Virtual Reference

  Library Instruction

  History

  Digital Libraries

  Instructional Technology

  Research

  Cataloging

  Collection Development

  Library Research

  Editing

  Teaching

  Electronic Resources

  Library

  Higher Education

  Public Libraries

  Library Science

  Information Literacy

  Public Speaking

  “Pure Delight and Professional Development”: The Reading Practices and Library Use of an Active Poetry Community

  Abstract:\n\nThis paper reports the findings of an online survey designed to explore the reading practices

  library habits

  and book acquisition of adult members of an active poetry community (n = 32) in Toronto

  Ontario

  Canada. Findings show the close relationship between poetry reading and poetry writing and the tight interweaving of poetry throughout the working and personal lives of respondents. Reading and finding out about poetry are also highly social in nature with a clear reliance on the poetry community rather than the public library. Our findings have implications for the roles of reading institutions such as bookstores

  libraries

  and publishers

  as well as for collection development and readers’ advisory services to specialized reading communities.

  “Pure Delight and Professional Development”: The Reading Practices and Library Use of an Active Poetry Community

  Knut Oterholm

  Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie

  Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad

  Now in print and available for purchase

  and beginning to be available through libraries. My two favourites have it on order (Western and Toronto Public Libraries). The full table of contents with our excellent contributors' titles and names are available through library records. The book is the culminating product of a conference on Researching the Reading Experience (June 2013) that I helped to organize with colleagues from FIMS and from Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences in Norway. We're very proud of this volume of essays! \n\nHere's the back of the book blurb: \nThis book is about the experience of reading—what reading feels like

  how it makes people feel

  how people read and under what conditions

  what drives people to read

  and

  conversely

  what halts the individual in the pursuit of the pleasures of reading. The authors consider reading in all of its richness as they explore readers’ relationships with diverse textual and digital forms.\n\nThis edited volume is divided into three sections: Theory

  Practice

  and Politics. The first provides insights into ways of seeing

  thinking

  and conceptualizing the experience of reading. The second features a variety of individual and social practices of reading. The third explores the political and ethical aspects of the reading experience

  raising questions about the role that reading plays in democracy and civic participation.\n\nWith contributions from multidisciplinary scholars from around the world

  this book provides provocative insights into what it means to be a reader reading in and across various social

  cultural

  and political contexts. Its unifying theme of the reader’s experience of reading is put into dialogue with theories

  practices

  and politics

  making this a rewarding read for graduate students

  faculty

  researchers

  and librarians working across a range of academic fields.

  Plotting the Reading Experience: Theory/Practice/Politics

  Rothbauer

  Western University

  Faculty of Information & Media Studies

  Faculty of Information & Media Studies

  The University of Western Ontario