Assistant Professor

620 IS Building
412-624-7679

lbowler@sis.pitt.edu

Institution of highest degree:
PhD. 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). (2008). Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second ed., Hershey PA:  IGI Global. 3721-3727.

Bowler, L. (2008). The Metacognitive Knowledge of Adolescent Students During the Information Search Process. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, University of British Columbia, June 5 - 7, 2008. Vancouver, British Columbia: CAIS/ACSI. http://www.cais-acsi.ca/search.asp?year=2008

Bowler, L. & Large, A. (2008). Design-based Research for LIS. Library and Information Science Research, 30(1): 39-46.

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.