The publications in the two main areas of LRG research are:
1. Value of Libraries
Carroll, M., Garrison, K., Oddone, K., & Wakeling, S. (2024). School libraries in Australia: A preliminary analysis of the Knowledge Bank of Australian and New Zealand School Libraries. IFLA Journal. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/034003522412464
Gagen-Spriggs, K. (2023). The influence of teacher librarians on reading cultures. Access, 37(3), 7–14.
Gagen-Spriggs, K. (2023, September 13). From the archive: A brief history of school libraries in Australia. Incite, 44(3), 12–14.
Garner, J. (2024). Public library partnerships: Using Collaborative Governance to support vulnerable users. Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association, 1-20. Advance online publication. ttps://doi.org/10.1080/24750158.2024.2397940
Goodwin, A., & Afzal, W. (2023). Giving voice to regional Australian academic librarians: Perceptions of information literacy and information literacy instruction. Journal of Information Literacy, 17(2), 131-149. https://doi.org/10.11645/17.2.11
Hider, P., Wakeling, S., Marshall, A., & Garner, J. (2024). Public Library Services in Rural Australia: Challenges and Prospects. Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association, 73(2), 122–147. https://doi.org/10.1080/24750158.2024.2315338
Hider, P., Garner, J., Godfrey, A., Jamali, H. R., & Wakeling, S. (Accepted/In press). Designing for Communities with Communities: A Public Library Codesign Project. Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association, 148-176. https://doi.org/10.1080/24750158.2024.2332973
Hider, P., Garner, J., Wakeling, S., & Jamali Mahmuei, H. R. (2023). “Part of My Daily Life”: The importance of public libraries as physical spaces. Public Library Quarterly, 42(2), 190-219. ttps://doi.org/10.1080/01616846.2022.2092347
Oddone, K., Garrison, K., & Gagen-Spriggs, K. (2023). Navigating Generative AI: The Teacher Librarian’s Role in Cultivating Ethical and Critical Practices. Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association, 73(1), 3–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/24750158.2023.2289093
Randell-Moon, H., Garner, J., Wakeling, S., Kennan, M. A., Hider, P., Jamali, H. R., & Mansourian, Y. (2023). “You’re Not the Police. You’re Providing a Library Service”: Reflections on Maintenance and Repair in/of Public Libraries During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 4.
Shephard, M., Garner, J., Bell, K., & Wardle, S. (2023). Social work in public libraries: An international scoping review. Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association, 72(4), 340-361. https://doi.org/10.1080/24750158.2023.2255940
Wakeling, S., Garner, J., Kennan, M. A., Hider, P., Jamali, H. R., Randell-Moon, H. E. K., & Mansourian, Y. (2023). Australian public libraries during the COVID-19 crisis: operations, management and service provision. Library Management, 44(6/7), 448-465.
2. Making Collections More Visible
Lee, D., & Hider, P. (2022). Knowledge organization across disciplines, domains, services and technologies. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International ISKO Conference 6-8 July 2022, Aalborg, Denmark. Baden-Baden, Germany: Ergon Verlag, (pp. 121-132).
Hider, P., & Steele, G. (2021). Library Thing and literary works revisited: Are social and library cataloging just as complementary as they were a decade ago? Library Resources and Technical Services, 65(3), 113-125.
Hider, P. White, H., & Barlow, P. (2021). Film genres through different lenses: Mapping commonly used film vocabularies onto the Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms. Library Trends, 69(3), 630-645. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lib.2021.0007.
Jamali, H. R., & Hider, P. (2023). Changes in the usage pattern of public library collections during the COVID pandemic. Collection Management, 48(4), 324-338. https://doi.org/10.1080/01462679.2023.2210070
Shephard, M., & Garrison, K. (2024). “It was a real eye-opener”: Supporting adolescent mental health literacy through contemporary young adult literature. School Libraries Worldwide, 29(1), 1-17.
Truong, V., Denison, T., & Stracke, C. M. (2021). Developing institutional open educational resource repositories in Vietnam: Opportunities and challenges. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 22(4), 109-124.
Garner, J. (2022). First language reading and the role of public libraries. Report submitted to the State Library of New South Wales.
Wardle, S., Garrison, K., & Bell, K. (2022). Embracing the cultural identity of burgeoning ethnic groups in regional public libraries: A pilot project with the Punjabi Indian community in the Riverina. Report submitted to The State Library of New South Wales.
For more details on LRGs’ research outputs, please visit Charles Sturt University Research Output (CRO) link below:
https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/en/organisations/libraries-research-group
