Youth services librarianship is an integral part of the library science field. Current and recent doctoral students in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science program, as well as other relevant departments at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, are working on important research related to youth services librarianship. Doctoral students with a youth services element in their dissertation are listed below (by title of dissertation).
Comics and the New Youth Market in Postwar Cold War America
Anna Nielsen, GSLIS
Content Analysis of East African Folktales for Children and young Adults Published from 1970-2002
Rosemary Onyango, Education/Curriculum & Instruction
The Cultural Origins of Children's Librarianship, 1876-1906
Kate McDowell, GSLIS
Double Vision? the Representation Korean Adoptees in Children's Fiction in the Republic of Korea and the United States
Sarah Park, GSLIS
A Generation Lost: Inner-urban School Library Media Specialists in Real-world Contexts
Sharon Comstock, GSLIS
How We Learn about History, How We Forget—A comparative study of print information about the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) for American and Chinese young people
Minjie Chen, GSLIS
“Is Your Library Family Friendly?”: Pro-Family Activism, Realism, and Challenges to Youth Literature in Libraries and Schools, 1995-2005
Loretta Gaffney, GSLIS
Literature As Mirror: Analyzing the Oral, Written, and Artistic Responses of Young Mexican-Origin Children to Mexican American-Themed Picture Storybooks
Ruth Quiroa, Education/Curriculum and Instruction
Literate Attachments in a Multilingual Kindergarten: A Case Study
Keren Moses Joshi, GSLIS
Daring Women and Fainting Girls: A Comparative Content Analysis of Gender in Series Book
April Spisak, GSLIS
Radio Days at the Public Library; or, The National Children’s Radio Program that Never Was
Cindy Welch, GSLIS
Replication and Impact Measurement of "Earphone English: Serving ELL Teens in the Public Library, Timnah Card, GSLIS
A Summer Reading Program for African American Youth: An Ethnographic Study
Kimberly Parker, Curriculum & Instruction
A Trail of Stones and Breadcrumbs: The Evolving Criteria for Evaluating
Folktales Published for Youth in the Twentieth Century
Janice Del Negro, GSLIS
Undecided
Sujin Huggins, GSLIS
Undecided
Yeu-Joo Lim, GSLIS
What Is a Wolf? The Construction of Social, Cultural and Scientific Knowledge in Children’s Literature
Debra Mitts Smith, GSLIS
Youth Services At St. Louis Public Library, 1909-1933: A Narrative Case Study
Melanie Kimball, GSLIS
