Prepared, designed and graded student assignments for and co-taught undergraduate course “Information Resources and Libraries” (IS 110), graduate course “Children’s Literature” (IS 234), and graduate course “Information Seeking Behavior.”

High School Teacher: February 1995 – September 1998

National Hsin Tien Senior High School, Taipei, Taiwan 

PUBLICATIONS

Lu, Y.-L. (2009). Engaging students with summer reading: An Assessment of a collaborative high school reading program. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 50(2), 90-106.

Gordon, C. & Lu, Y.-L. (2008) “I hate to read, or do I?” Low achievers and their reading. School Library Media Research.  School Library Media Research 11. Available fromhttp://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/slmrb/slmrcontents/volume11/gordon_lu.cfm.

Lu, Y.-L. (2008). Coping assistance vs. Readers’ advisory: Are they the same animal? Children & Libraries 6(1): 15-22.

Lu, Y.-L. (2008). Helping children cope: What is bibliotherapy? Children & Libraries 6(1): 46-48.

Lu, Y.-L., & Gordon, C. (2008). The effects of free choice on student learning: A study of summer reading. School Libraries Worldwide 14(1), 38-55.

Lu, Y.-L., & Gordon, C. (2007). Reading takes you places: A study of a web-based summer reading program. School Library Media Research 10. Available fromhttp://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/slmrb/slmrcontents/volume10/lu_reading.cfm.  

Lu, Y.-L. (2009).Adolescent Reading: The reality, the realism appeal, and their learning. In Proceedings of annual conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education. Denver, Colorado.

Gordon, C. & Lu, Y.-L. (2008). “I hate to read, or do I?” Low achievers and their reading. School Library Media Research.  In Proceedings of annual conference of the international association of school librarianship. Berkeley, California, 12 pages.

Lu, Y.-L., & Gordon, C. (2007). Reading takes you places: A study of a wired summer reading program. In Proceedings of annual conference of the international association of school librarianship. Taipei, Taiwan, 17 pages.

PRESENTATIONS

Conference

Lu, Y.-L. Adolescent Reading: The reality, the realism appeal, and their learning. Accepted for presentation at the 2009 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) annual conference, Denver, CO, January 20-23, 2009.

Lu, Y.-L. Low achievers and their reading. Presented at the New Jersey Association of School Librarians Conference, New Brunswick, New Jersey, November 14-16, 2008.

Gordon, C. & Lu, Y.-L. “I hate to read, or do I?” Low Achievers and their reading. Presented at the 37^th International Association of School Librarianship annual conference. Berkeley, California, August 2-5, 2008.

Lu, Y.-L. Engaging students with summer reading: A revealing collaboration. Presented at the 2008 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) conference, Philadelphia, PA, January 9, 2008.

Lu, Y.-L. Reading to learn or read for fun? Summer reading in your school library. Presented at the New Jersey Association of School Librarians Conference, Long Branch, New Jersey, November 14-16, 2007.

Lu, Y.-L., & Gordon, C. Reading takes you places: A study of a wired summer reading program. Presented at the 36th International Association of School Librarianship annual conference, Taipei, Taiwan, July 16-18, 2007.

Lu, Y.-L. A day’s schoolwork, a life’s journey: Activities and books that help students cope. Presented at the New Jersey Association of School Librarians Conference, Long Branch, New Jersey, October 2006.

Lu, Y.-L. How children’s librarians help children cope with daily life: Bibliotherapy or readers’ advisory?” Presented at the New Jersey Association of School Librarians Conference, Cherry Hills, New Jersey, October 2005.

Lu, Y.-L. Book selection behavior in a children’s reading room: A case study in a public library with predominant Asian-American users.  Presented at the Association of Asian American Studies Conference, Los Angeles, April 2005.

Invited Presentations

Keynote Speaker: Do you see what I see?—Enhanced readers’ advisory service: An unrecognized aspect of children’s librarianship at the Youth Service Forum, New Jersey State Library (NJSL) Youth Services, Manalapan, New Jersey, December 2005.

Lu, Y.-L. & Gordon, C. : Summer reading moves to cyberspace: A revealing collaboration at the CISSL/ILILE, Multiple Faces of Collaboration 2007 Spring Research Symposium, Kent University, Kent, OH, May 17-18, 2007.

Lu, Y.-L. & Gordon, C.: Reading takes you places: A study of a web-based summer reading program at the LIS Research Day, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, May 9, 2007.   

Lu, Y.-L.: Preparing for the academic job market SCILS Ph.D. Forum. Panel participant. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, Oct. 13, 2006.

Lu, Y.-L. & Chelton, M. K.: Boys and reading at the MLIS Colloquium, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, April 5, 2006.

Conference Posters

Lu, Y.-L. An enhanced readers’ advisory Service: How children’s librarians use books to help children cope with daily life.  Presented at the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) annual conference, Boston, Massachusetts, January 2005.

Lu, Y.-L. Physical accessibility in children’s reading room. Presented California Library Association annual conference, Ontario, California, November 2003.

GRANTS & AWARDS        

• “One Common Goal: Transforming school libraries in New Jersey,” from New Jersey Association of School Librarians, for the period of 2009 to January 2011, in the amount of $120,000. PI: Ross Todd; co-PIs: Carol Gordon and Ya-Ling Lu.
• “Children’s Information Behaviors in Coping with Daily Life,” ASIST SIG USE Elfreda Chatman Research Proposal Award, October 25, 2008, in the amount of $1000. Role: PI.
• “Coping with Daily Life: From teens’ eyes,” from Rutgers Research Council Grant, from the period of July 2008 to May 2009, in the amount of $1407. Role: PI.
• “School Administrator’s Support for School Libraries: The Impact on Student Achievement,” from Pennsylvania Department of Education’s Office of Commonwealth Libraries, for the period of September 2006 to December 2007, in the amount of $80,000. PI: Ross Todd; co-PIs: Carol Gordon and Ya-Ling Lu.
• “Reading to Learn in a School Library Context,” from Rutgers Research Council Grant, for the period of July 2007 to May 2008, in the amount of $1876. Role: PI.

• Osborn Award, UCLA, 1999, 2002
• Walker Award, UCLA, 2002
• Fellowship, Graduate Division, UCLA, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002

• American Library Association
• Association for Library Service to Children
• The Young Adult Library Services Association
• The American Society for Information Science and Technology
• Association for Library and Information Science Education
• International Association of School Librarianship
• New Jersey Library Association

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

• Spring 2009 ~ present: LIS Research Committee, Chair, Department of Library and Information Science, Rutgers University
• 2005 – fall 2008: MLIS Admission Committee, Department of Library and Information Science, Rutgers University
• 2005 ~ present: Faculty Researcher, Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
• 2006 ~ present: Research and Development Committee, Association for Library Service to Children, ALA
• 2003: Peer advisor for the Praxis Program, Department of Information Studies, UCLA (a pre-doctoral and recruitment program for Tomorrow’s Culturally Diverse Information Studies Faculty and Leaders)
• 1998: Contract Storyteller for the Human Foundation (a non-profit organization devoted to K-12 education evaluation in Taiwan