Research Interests
Center on children's services and children's literature

Grants & Fellowships

• Youth, Community, Libraries: Empowerment for Success, IMLS Grant to develop future faculty (2004-2008)
  Co-researchers: Dr. Bill Lukenbill
  
  
• Teaching Fellowship, Public and School Librarians as Health Information Gatekeepers for Youth in Small Towns and Rural Areas in South Texas, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin (2006/07) Co-researcher: Dr. Bill Lukenbill
  
  
• Promoting Information Literacy & Teacher Collaboration through Social Marketing Strategies, IMLS/Kent State Grant (2004)
  Co-researcher: Dr. Bill Lukenbill
  
  
• Talking Over Books, Utopia K-12 Funded Project (2003/04)
  Co-researchers: Nancy Roser, Joan Shiring, and Liu Min
  
  
• Teaching Fellowship, University of Texas at Temple (2001/02)
  
  
• Texas School Library Standards Implementation Study, Funded by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and the Texas Library Association (1998/99)
  
  
• Fast Tex Grant, Funded by the University of Texas at Austin (Spring 1998)
  
  
• Teaching Fellowship, University of Texas at Temple (1997/98)
  
  
• Achieving School Readiness: Public Libraries and the First of the National Education Goals, Funded by the U.S. Department of Education (1994)
  
  
• HEA Title IIB: Library Career Training Program, funded by the U.S. Department of Education (DATE)
  Master's: "Planning, Delivering, & Evaluating Library Services to Children"
  Doctoral: "The Public Library Role in Developing Readiness for School"
  
  
• Alumni Teaching Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Library and Information Science (1986/87)
  
  
• Teaching Fellowship, University of Texas at Temple (1988/89)
  
  
• Summer Research Award, University of Texas, University Research Institute (1984)
  
  
• Texas in Children's Books, University of Texas Centennial Programs Grant (1982/84)
  Abstract: Research conducted primarily in UT libraries to produce a comprehensive, historical, annotated bibliography of children's books about Texas, for ages preschool through eighth grade, for the benefit of researchers, teachers, parents, and children.