Other Research and Writing

Dr.  Roy’s early writing and research focused on public library matters—use of volunteers, experiences of children’s librarians, censorship attempts, the impact of displays and weeding on stock turnover rate, and marketing.

More recently she has revisited the teaching and practice of public services coinciding with her return to teaching basic reference, library instruction/information literacy, and reader’s advisory courses. She writes a column for The Reference Librarian on “Material-Mind-Method: On the Teaching of Reference” and features on workplace wellness for the newsletter, Library Worklife. She edited a special issue of The Reference Librarian on "Teaching Reference: Strategies and Philosophies," The Reference Librarian 51 (3) (2012).

Her interest in teaching LIS students in the area of public services is also expressed by her continuing contributions to writings on service learning, an area that crosses her main writing/research focus of indigenous cultural heritage development.

Selected Publications on Public Services:

Loriene Roy, Bonnie Brzozowski and Nick Homenda, “The Value of Service Learning Projects in Preparing LIS Students for Public Services Careers in Public Libraries,” The Reference Librarian 53 (1) (January 2012) : 24-40.

Loriene Roy, “Teaching Reference: Strategies and Philosophies,”The Reference Librarian 53 (1) (January 2012): 1-3.

Loriene Roy, “Library Instruction; The Teaching Prong in the Reference/Readers’ Advisory/Instruction Triad,” The Reference Librarian 52 (3) (July-September 2011): 274-276.

Loriene Roy, Bonnie Brzozowski, Sara Arnold-Garza, and Kristi Beauchemin, “'Are You Searching for a New Job?’: Texas Public Libraries Provide Services for Job Seekers,” Texas Library Journal 87 (1) (Spring 2011): 30-33.

Loriene Roy, “Bringing Reader's Advisory into the Blended Reference Scenario,” The Reference Librarian 51 (4) (October-December 2010): 355-357.

Loriene Roy, Bonnie Brzozowski and Trina Bolfing, “Computer Classes for Job Seekers: LIS Students Team with Public Librarians to Extend Public Services,” Public Library Quarterly 29 (3) (July-September 2010): 193-209.

Loriene Roy, “We Begin Our Conversation: Let’s Talk About Education for Reference Librarians,” The Reference Librarian 51 (3) (July-September 2010): 245-247.

Loriene Roy, “Engaging LIS Students in Reference Work Through Online Answer Boards,” The Reference Librarian 51 (2) (April-June 2010): 97-107.

Loriene Roy and Eric Novotny, “How Do We Learn? Contributions of Learning Theory to Reference Service and Library Instruction,” The Reference Librarian 69/70 (2000): 129-139.

Raymond J. Mooney and Loriene Roy, “Content-Based Book Recommending Using Learning for Text Categorization,” In Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Conference on Digital Libraries (San Antonio, TX, June 2000), 195-204.

Raymond J. Mooney and Loriene Roy, “Recommending Using Learning for Text Categorization,” In Proceedings of the SIGIR-99 Workshop on Recommender Systems: Algorithms and Evaluation (Berkeley, CA, August, 1999).

Raymond J. Mooney, Paul N. Bennett, and Loriene Roy, “Book Recommending Using Text Categorization with Extracted Information,” In Papers from the AAAI-98/ICML-98 Workshop on Learning for Text Categorization (Madison, Wisconsin, 1998), 49-54.

Raymond J. Mooney, Paul N. Bennett, and Loriene Roy, “Book Recommending Using Text Categorization with Extracted Information,” In Papers from the AAAI-98 Workshop on Recommender Systems (Madison, Wisconsin, 1998), 70-74.

Loriene Roy, “Reference Accuracy,” The Reference Librarian 49/50 (March 1995): 217-227.

Loriene Roy, editor, “Pathfinders for Finding Information on Native Americans with Disabilities,” ERIC, RC 018 850, 1992, 78 p.

Loriene Roy, “An Index of Quality of Rural Illinois Public Library Service,” ERIC, ED 337 171, 1991, 39 p.

Loriene Roy, editor, “Pathfinders on Black Dance in America,” ERIC, ED 339 380, 1991, 158 p.

Loriene Roy, “An Index of Quality of Illinois Public Library Service, 1985.” Illinois Library Statistical Report Number 20, Springfield: Illinois State Library, 1986, pp. 87-114.

Loriene Roy, “A Survey of Children's Librarians in Illinois Public Libraries.” Illinois Library Statistical Report Number 21, Springfield: Illinois State Library, 1986, pp. 41-117.

Loriene Roy, “An Index of Quality of Illinois Public Library Service, 1984.” Illinois Library Statistical Report Number 17, Springfield: Illinois State Library, 1985, pp. 21-45.

Service Learning:

Loriene Roy, Kelly Jensen, and Alex Hershey. Service Learning: Linking Library Education and Practice. Chicago: ALA, 2009.

Past Projects:

Bridge to TexShare for Small/Rural Libraries
[http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~bridge/]

Equity of Access: A Continuing Education Resource for Libraries [http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~access/]