Refereed Books and Book Chapters
Rothbauer, Paulette M., Virginia A. Walter, and Kathleen Weibel. "Public Libraries in the Lives of Young Readers: Past, Present, and Future," in Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature, edited by Shelby Wolf, Karen Coats, Patricia Enciso, and Christine Jenkins. Routledge, 2011.
Rothbauer, Paulette M. "Beyond a Signpost for Resistance: The promise of Michel de Certeau's Practice of Everyday Life for LIS Scholarship," in Critical Theory for Library and Information Science: Exploring the Social from Across the Disciplines, edited by Gloria J. Leckie, Lisa M. Given and John E. Buschman. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2010.
Rothbauer, Paulette M. “Locating the Library as Place among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Queer Patrons,” in Library as Place: History, Community, and Culture, edited by John E. Buschman and Gloria J. Leckie. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2007.
McKechnie, Lynne (E.F.), Catherine S. Ross and Paulette M. Rothbauer. “Affective Dimensions of Information Seeking in the Context of Reading,” in Information and Emotion: The Emergent Affective Paradigm in Information Behavior Research and Theory, edited by Diane Nahl and Dania Bilal. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2007.
Ross, Catherine S., Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie and Paulette M. Rothbauer. Reading Matters: What the Research Reveals about Reading, Libraries and Community. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2006.
Rothbauer, Paulette M. “The Practice of Everyday Life,” Theories of Information Behavior: A Researcher’s Guide, edited by Karen Fisher, Sanda Erdelez, and Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie. Medford, NJ: ASIST, Information Today, 2005: 284-288.
Refereed Articles
Rothbauer, Paulette M. "Rural Teens on the Role of Reading in Their Lives," Journal of Research on Libraries and Young Adults 1(2), Available at: http://www.yalsa.ala.org/jrlya/2011/02/rural-teens-on-the-role-of-reading-in-their-lives/
Rothbauer, Paulette M. “Exploring the Placelessness of Reading Among Older Rural Teens in a Canadian Municipality,” The Library Quarterly 79(3): 465-483, 2009.
Rothbauer, Paulette M. "Triangulation." The Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods, edited by Lisa Given. Sage Publications, 2008. <http://sage-ereference.com/research/Article_n468.html>.
Rothbauer, Paulette M. “The Internet in the Reading Accounts of Lesbian and Queer Young Women: Failed Searches and Unsanctioned Reading.” Canadian Journal of Information & Library Science 28(4): 53-74, 2004. Special Issue on Children, Libraries and Information.
Rothbauer, Paulette M. “‘People Aren’t Afraid Anymore, But It’s Hard To Find Books’: Reading Practices That Inform the Personal and Social Identities of Self-Identified Lesbian and Queer Young Women.” Canadian Journal of Information & Library Science 28(3): 89-112, 2004.
Rothbauer, Paulette M. “Reading Mainstream Possibilities: Canadian Young Adult Fiction with Lesbian and Gay Characters.” Canadian Children's Literature/literature canadienne pour les jeunesse 108: 10-26, 2002. Download Ccl_rothbauer_2002_108_certified
Rothbauer, Paulette M. and Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie. “The Treatment of Gay and Lesbian Fiction for Young Adults: A Study of the Holdings in Canadian Public Libraries. Collection Building 19(1): 5-16, 2000. Reprinted in Counterpoise: For Social Responsibilities, Liberty and Dissent 5(1): 6-14, 2001.
Rothbauer, Paulette M. and Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie. “Gay and Lesbian Fiction for Young Adults: A Study of the Holdings in Canadian Public Libraries. Collection Building 18(1): 32-39, 1999.
Conference Proceedings
Rothbauer, Paulette M., Siobhan Stevenson and Nadine Wathen, eds. Mapping the 21st Century Information Landscape: Borders, Bridges and Byways, Proceedings of the 37 th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science: Ottawa, May 28-30, 2009. http://www.cais-acsi.ca/2009proceedings.htm.
Rothbauer, Paulette M. and Rachelle Gooden. “Representations of Young People in Information Science: The Case of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science (and Technology), 1985-2005.” In Haidar Moukdad, ed., 34th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, Toronto, Ontario: CAIS, 1-3 June 2006. Download Rothbauer_2006
Rothbauer, Paulette M. “‘People Aren’t Afraid Anymore, But It’s Hard to Find Books’: Reading Practices that Inform the Personal and Social Identities of Self-Identified Lesbian and Queer Young Women.” [Abstract]. In Heidi Julien and Sharon Thompson, eds., Access to Information: Technologies, Skills and Socio-Political Context, Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, Winnipeg, Manitoba: CAIS, 3-5 June 2004. Extended abstract: Download Rothbauer_2004 (full paper available in CJILS 28(3).
Rothbauer, Paulette M., Chris Dixon, Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie and Laura J. Miller. “Latté Grandé, No Sprinkles: An Observational Study of Customer Behaviour at Chapters Bookstores.” In: D. Grant Campbell, ed., Beyond the Web: Technologies, knowledge and people. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science. Quebec City: CAIS, 27-29 May 2001: 165-174. Download Dixon_2001
Rothbauer, Paulette M. and Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie. “Treatment of Gay and Lesbian Fiction for Young Adults in the Reviewing Media.” In: James M. Turner, ed., Information science: Where has it been, where is it going? Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science. Sherbrooke, Quebec: CAIS, 9-11 June 1999: 248-266. Download Rothbauer_1999
Refereed Conference Presentations/Abstracts
Rothbauer, Paulette. ""Enough Books to Make Reading for Fun Possible": The Inconspicuous Emergence of the Canadian Young Adult Novel and the Rise of the Teenage Reader." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing 2010 Conference. University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 19 August 2010.
Artinger, Joseph and Paulette Rothbauer. "Immigrant Youth's Perception of the Library: A Pilot Study Involving Youth Ages 14-18 Years of African and Caribbean Origin." Information Science: Synergy through Diversity, 38th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, Concordia University, Montreal, QC. 2-4 June 2010.
Rothbauer, Paulette. "Representations of Librarians in Children's Illustrated Books, 1938-2008." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing 2009 Conference. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, 26 July 2009. (Paper was part of a larger panel conference presentation entitled, “Playing Library: Representations of Libraries and Librarians in Picture Books for Young” with Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie, Christine Jenkins, Melanie Kimball.)
Rothbauer, Paulette. “Rural Youth, Reading and Libraries: Fostering a Place Ballet.” Mapping the 21st Century Information Landscape: Borers, Bridges and Byways. 37th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, University of Carleton, Ottawa, Ontario. 28-30 May 2009. Download CAIS_2009_Rothbauer_slides Extended Abstract: Download CAIS_2009_Rothbauer
Rothbauer, Paulette M. “Making Libraries Visible in a Rural Geography of Reading and Youth” Library Research Seminar IV, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, 12 October 2007. Abstract: Download LRSIV_Rothbauer
Rothbauer, Paulette M. “21st Century Print Culture and Rural Young People: Uneasy Contexts of Reading.” Beyond the Book: Contemporary Cultures of Reading Conference, University of Birmingham, UK, 1 September 2007.
Rothbauer, Paulette M. “Lucky Chuck: A Technically Precise Cautionary Tale for Modern Times.” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing 2007 Conference. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 13 July 2007. (Paper was part of a larger panel conference presentation entitled “Opening Children’s Worlds – The Work of Beverly Cleary” with Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie, Christine Jenkins, and Melanie Kimball.)
Rothbauer, Paulette M. “Research on the Information Needs, Seeking and Use of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Queer People.” 2005 ASIST SIG USE Annual Research Symposium: Connecting Research and Practice: Special Populations. Charlotte, NC, 29 October 2005. Abstract available at: http://iats-coe1.missouri.edu/~siguse/clusters.html
Rothbauer, Paulette M. “‘People Aren’t Afraid Anymore, But It’s Hard to Find Books’: Reading Practices that Inform the Personal and Social Identities of Self-Identified Lesbian and Queer Young Women.” Access to Information: Technologies, Skills and Socio-Political Context. 32nd Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, Winnipeg, Manitoba. 3-5 June 2004. (TOP RANKED STUDENT ABSTRACT)
Miller, Laura J., Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie and Paulette M. Rothbauer. “The Clash Between Armchairs and Cash Registers: Customer Behavior and Corporate Strategies at Book Superstores.” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. Scripps College, Claremont, CA. 9-12 July 2003.
Rothbauer, Paulette M. “Finding Oneself in the Text: An Inquiry into Reading, Information and Identity.” Doctoral research poster presentation. Annual Conference of the Association of Library and Information Science Education. Philadelphia, PA. 22 January 2003.
Rothbauer, Paulette M., Chris Dixon, Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie and Laura J. Miller. “Latté Grandé, No Sprinkles: An Observational Study of Customer Behaviour at Big Box Bookstores.” Library Research Seminar II: Partners and Connections & Research and Practice. University of Maryland, Baltimore, 2-3 November 2001.
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