Leanne Bowler
Assistant Professor
620 IS Building
412-624-7679
Institution of highest degree:
MLS and ME. McGill University
Research Interests:
Children's and young adult library service; Children's and young adult information behavior; Family literacy/Emergent literacy; Health information and youth/Health information literacy; Information design/Design methodology
Recent Publications:
Bowler, L. Dangerous Stories. English Quarterly (Special issue: Children's Stories and Social Issues). (in press).
Bowler, L. Teens and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second ed., Hershey PA: IGI Global (in press).
Bowler, L. & Large, A. Design-based Research for LIS. Library and Information Science Research. (in press).
Large, A., Bowler, L., Beheshti, J. & Nesset, V. (2007). Bonded Design, Intergenerational Teams and the Zone of Proximal Development: Working with Children as Designers. McGill Journal of Education , 42(1): 61- 82.
Bowler, L., Nesset, V., Large, A. & Beheshti, J., (2004). Using the Web for Canadian History Projects: What Will Children Find? Canadian Journal of Library and Information Science. 28(3): 3 – 24.
Bowler, L., Large, A. & Rejskind, G., (2001). Primary school students, information literacy and the Web, Education for Information, 19, 201-223.