Library Quarterly

Papers
(The median citation count of Library Quarterly is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Can the Allocation of Library Resources Improve the Competitiveness of Universities in Innovation and Entrepreneurship? An Empirical Study from Chinese Universities14
Awards Recognize Outstanding Research in Library Quarterly14
Staff Perceptions of Public Library Goals Revisited13
What’s So Special about Appeal? Drawing the Aesthetic/Nonaesthetic Distinction in Readers’ Advisory12
Opportunities and Areas for Improvement in Public Library Makerspaces for Adults with Disabilities11
Get Out: Academic Libraries as the Sunken Place11
Questions of Trust: A Survey of Student Expectations and Perspectives on Library Learning Analytics9
Autherine Lucy Foster: Yet Another Hidden Figure in American Library History8
The Potential Role of Public Libraries in a Quadruple Helix Model of “Smart City” Development: Lessons from Chattanooga, Tennessee8
Reading When Stressed: Understanding Motivations for Reading Fiction and Enhancing Future Recommendation Services8
Moving toward Health Justice in the COVID-19 Era: A Sampling of US Public Libraries’ Efforts to Inform the Public, Improve Information Literacy, Enable Health Behaviors, and Optimize Health Outcomes8
Tales from Three Countries and One Academia: Academic Faculty in the Time of the Pandemic7
Make Me Think! Exploring Library User Experience through the Lens of (Critical) Information Literacy7
How Visibility, Hypervisibility, and Invisibility Shape Library Staff and Drag Performer Perceptions of and Experiences with Drag Storytimes in Public Libraries6
LINQing InFLOmation of Librarians in the Public Sphere: A Critical Race Theory Perspective Toward Librarian Identity5
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Learning Takes More Than One Way of Knowing: Embedding Indigenous and Queer of Color Theory within Knowledge Organization Resources5
The Impact of COVID-19 on E-book Reading Behavior: The Case of the Municipal Library of Prague5
Using Critical Race Theory to Deconstruct “One Brick at a Time” in Dismantling the White-Centered Power Structures in the Entrenched Citadel of the LIS Academy5
Public Libraries, Older Adults, and Social Determinants of Health: A Narrative Research Synthesis4
Library Quarterly Centennial Issues4
Civic Literacy: Reimagining a Role for Libraries4
The Identities Valued and Celebrated in Public Library Virtual Storytimes: Reflections of Diversity in the Books Shared4
Understanding Human Information Behavior: When, How, and Why People Interact with Information. By Beth St. Jean, Ursula Gorham, and Elizabeth Bonsignore. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlef3
“If Others Are Doing It, So Can I”: Leveraging Communities of Practice to Introduce Connected Learning into Small and Rural Libraries3
Public Libraries and COVID-19: Perceptions and Politics in the United States3
Multilingual Support in Digital Environments: A Case Study of Online Catalogs in US Public Libraries, with a Focus on Korean-Language Speakers3
Reimagining the Civic Role of Libraries: Introduction3
Libraries Reclaiming “Social Justice Warriors” during “Miss Rona’s” Global Pandemic Crises3
(Dis)Information, Dysfunctions, and Democracy during the Global Pandemic: Is the Vision of Social Justice a Mirage (for Libraries) in the Neoliberal Age?3
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Creativity: A Toolkit for Academic Libraries. By Nancy Falciani-White. Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2021. Pp. vii+147. $54.00 (paper). ISBN 978-0-8389-3777-8.2
Supporting Libraries to Serve the Holistic Needs of the Community: Insights from Fathers Served by Social Service Systems2
Public Library Social Work: Reading the Literature as Discursive Resources at the Intersection of Two Professions2
Perceptions of the Public Library Social Worker: Challenges and Opportunities2
Digital Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in Digital Information Services at Academic Libraries: The University of Jordan Case2
Crafting a Pandemic Book Club2
It’s Meaningful Work, but It’s “Really, Really Hard”: Librarians’ Understanding of Their Work with Families Experiencing Homelessness2
A Bunch of Books, a Suitcase, and Many Trips by Boat: Chronicle of a Librarian Project in the Galapagos Islands1
InfoCrit: Moving toward Critical Race Theory in LIS1
“Our Mission Doesn’t Stop Just Because We Don’t Have a Building”: Librarians’ and Museum Educators’ Discursive Construction of Their Shifting Roles during the Pandemic1
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Meeting Them Where They Are: Online LIS Students and Mental Health Supports1
Lending Seeds, Growing Justice: Seed Lending in Public and Academic Libraries1
Community Archives, Community Spaces: Heritage, Memory, and Identity. Edited by Jeannette A. Bastian and Andrew Flinn. London: Facet Publishing, 2020. Pp. v+216. $89.99 (paper). ISBN 978-1-78331
Patron Privacy Protections in Public Libraries1
Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives: A How-To-Do-It Manual. 3rd ed. By Gregory S. Hunter. Chicago: ALA Neal-Schuman, 2020. Pp. xvi+302. $76.50 (paper). ISBN 978-0-8389-1277-5.1
Educating the “Middle”: Public Library Support of Nontraditional Students and SDG 41
The War on Libraries and the Stories We Must Tell of Innovation and Indomitability1
Scientific Empathy and the 12 Principles for Evaluating Hermeneutic Phenomenological Research1
Towards Inclusive Lactation Spaces in Libraries1
Libraries, Democracy, and Citizenship: Twenty Years after 9/111
Public Library-University Research Partnerships in Library and Information Science: Exploring the Benefits, Challenges, and Strategies for Community-Engaged Scholarship1
The Convivial Capabilities Checklist: Translating Makerspace Research into Practice1
Patrons’ Satisfaction with Self-Service Public Libraries: A Demographic Study0
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Exercising at the Library: Small and Rural Public Libraries in the Lives of Older Adults0
Libraries Combating Disinformation: From the Front Line to the Long Game0
School Librarians and Graphic Novel Reading: A Complicated Relationship0
Different, Not Deficient: Supporting University and College Students with ADHD in Academic Libraries0
The Library Outreach Cookbook. Edited by Ryan L. Sittler and Terra J. Rogerson. Chicago, IL: ACRL, 2020. Pp. xi+230. $65.00 (paper). ISBN 978-0-8389-4845-3.0
Empowering High School Students to Participate in the Civic Sphere through ProjectCiv0
Engagement in the Digital Era. Edited by Nicole J. Milano and Christopher J. Prom. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2020. Pp. vii+175. $34.99 (paper). ISBN 978-1-945246-41-8.0
Visual Research Methods: An Introduction for Library and Information Studies. Edited by Shailoo Bedi and Jenaya Webb. London: Facet Publishing, 2020. Pp. xxviii+213. $69.99 (ALA Members: $62.990
Authoritarian/Totalitarian Censorship, and an Ethical Response0
Counterstories as Resistance to Book Bans0
Creating Award Winners in the Library: An Account of “Reprizing”0
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Exuberantly Exhuming McCarthy: Confronting the Widespread Attacks on Intellectual Freedom in the United States0
Supporting Youth Mental Health through Co-designing a Virtual Reality Experience: A Recipe-Based Co-design Model0
Conceptual Metaphors in Information Literacy: Reframing the Scholarly Conversation as Scholarly Collaboration0
Democracy as a Contested Concept in Public Library Research: An Overview0
A Reimagined Library and a Renewed Civic Culture0
“Unified Mobile, Financial, and Information Literacy Toolkit”: A Social Innovation for Public Libraries to Alleviate Poverty in Developing Countries0
“We Bring Change to the People” or Not: Understanding Librarians’ Views on Reference and Information Service as Social Justice Work0
On Adaptation: In Time, in Art, in Starfish, and in the Scope and Policies of the Library Quarterly0
Exploring the Social Impact of Public Libraries from the Perspective of Potential Users0
MAPPING INFORMATION AVOIDANCE TENDENCIES IN MEDICAL LIBRARIANS: UNDERSTANDING CHALLENGES AND BEHAVIORS0
Transfer Student Success: Academic Library Outreach and Engagement. Edited by Nancy Fawley, Ann Marshall, and Mark Robison. Chicago: ALA Editions, 2021. Pp. xxiii+220. $62.99 (ALA Members: $56.0
Information Literacy, Work, and Knowledge Creation: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Point of View0
First Contact: Law Librarianship, the Triple Helix Dilemma, and the Overlooked Foundation of CRT in LIS0
A Review Article: Metaliteracy, Open Education, Information Literacy, and Their Interdependence0
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Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization. By Deanna Marcum and Roger C. Schonfeld. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. vii+214. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-691-172710
English as the Scholarly Language: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Implications for Academic Reference and Instruction Librarians0
Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge. By Richard Ovenden. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. Pp. 308. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-0
Librarians as Agents of a Civic Awakening: Lessons from the Black Freedom Movement0
A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences. By Shannon Mattern. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. x+187. $19.95 (paper). ISBN 978-0-691-20805-3.0
An Application of Asian Critical Theory to Books for Young Readers: The APALA Rubric to Evaluate Asian American and Pacific Islander Youth Literature0
Third-Party Violence, Incivility, and the Frontline Public Library Worker0
The Library as a Hospitable Place: Hospitality and Welcoming Volunteers0
The Complete Collections Assessment Manual: A Holistic Approach. By Madeline M. Kelly. Chicago: ALA Neal-Schuman, 2020. Pp. xx+250. $57.99 (ALA Member $52.19) (paper). ISBN 978-0-8389-1868-5.0
“Maybe She’s Just Strict to Everybody”: Race, Belonging, and Surveillance in the Library0
African American Librarians: A Survey Conducted between 2019 and 2020 in the United States0
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Not Just for Patrons: Book Club Participation as Professional Development for Librarians0
Student Wellness and Academic Libraries: Case Studies and Activities for Promoting Health and Success. By Sara Holder and Amber Lannon. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 20
Digital Literacy Training for Canadians, Part 1: “It’s … Just Core Public Works”0
Policy Takers or Policy Makers? – Internet Use and Privacy in Swedish Public Libraries0
Library Quarterly Reviews Committee: Reformation0
Navigating the Path Forward for Libraries Post-20240
The Urgent Need for Libraries to Reimagine Their Civic Role by Turning Outward0
Reimagining Literacy Equity as Civic Fluency-Building: Some Hard-Won Lessons Libraries Can Carry Forward0
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Social Justice Storytelling: A Pedagogical Imperative0
95 Years of Library Quarterly, 95 Years in the Life of Librarianship0
One Size Fits None: A Scoping Review of Anti-Fatness and Libraries0
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“Still Open and Here for You”: News Media’s Framing of Canadian Public Libraries during COVID-190
Library Technical Services: Adapting to a Changing Environment. Edited by Stacey Marien. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii+480. $49.99 (paper). ISBN 978-1-55753-842-0.0
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Popular Media and the Roles of Public Libraries in Supporting Health Information Access, Health Literacy, and Health Justice during Pandemics: Learning from the Past to 0
The Immortality of Hatred and Revenge: The Interconnections of Censorship, Disinformation, and Cultural Erasure in the Book Bans Targeting Marginalized Populations0
Librarian Contributions to Evidence Synthesis Programs: Addressing the COVID-19 Infodemic0
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Fifty Years of Prison Library Scholarly Publishing: A Literature Analysis0
Segmentation of the Reader and Library User Population in Poland0
Mapping Intersections of Politics and Information in Twenty-First-Century Cyberculture0
Expanding the Civic Reach of Academic Libraries0
Digital Influence Warfare in the Age of Social Media. By James J. F. Forest. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2021. Pp. vii+303. $77.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-1-4408-7009-5.0
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“A Collection of Obstacles”: Qualitative Findings from the 2020 Library Services and Incarceration Survey0
Public Library Patrons’ Views of Their Psychosocial Needs and How the Library Can Help0
Faculty-Librarian Collaborations: Integrating the Information Literacy Framework into Disciplinary Courses. Edited by Michael Stöpel, Livia Piotto, Xan Goodman, and Samantha Godbey. Chicago: AC0
Small and Rural Libraries Transforming Communities: A Discourse Analysis of Media Coverage0
Tiny Cow Heads, Methanol, and Apple-Flavored Ivermectin: Libraries Confronting Pandemic Misinformation0
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Transition of Public and Academic Library Makerspaces from Physical to Online Settings during a Pandemic0
Telemedicine in Public Libraries: Innovation among Early Adopters0
Giving Voice through Reparative Storytelling: Correcting Racist Epistemic Injustices in LIS0
Underserved Patrons in University Libraries: Assisting Students Facing Trauma, Abuse, and Discrimination. Edited by Julia C. Skinner and Melissa Gross. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 20
Equal Respect: The Civic Engagement Libraries (Already) Perform for Democracy0
From the Committee on Work with the Foreign Born to the Serving Refugees, Immigrants, and Displaced Persons Committee: Chronicling US Race Relations, Immigration Policy, and Library Engagement with Im0
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Digital Literacy Training in Canada, Part 2: Defining and Measuring Success0
Health Information as a Human Right: From Justification to Practice0
Of Architects and Libraries: A Simple Discourse Analysis0
Stories Not Statistics: A Qualitative Narrative Exploration of the Value of Public Libraries in the United Kingdom0
The Six-Step Guide to Library Worker Engagement. By Elaina Norlin. Chicago: ALA Editions, 2021. Pp. xii+127. $64.99 (paper). ISBN 978-0-8389-4798-2.0
Digitization and Exploitation: Acknowledging and Addressing the Use of Exploitative Prison Labor by Libraries and Archives0
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Be Who We All Want You to Be: Navigating Identity Regulation in the Public Library0
Why Caregivers Take Preschool Children to the Library: A Study of Caregiver Perceptions0
Factors Influencing Library Usage among International Students and the Potential Role of Library Orientation0
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