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.”
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, “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/]