Bernadette A. Lear
Department Address
E501 Paterno Library
University Park, PA 16802-1812
Academic Support Areas
Subject Expertise
- Adult Education and Workforce Education
- Applied Behavior Analysis
- Biobehavioral Health
- Children's Literature and Literacy Education
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Education
- Health
- Human Development and Family Studies
- Kinesiology, Exercise, and Sport Science
- Library and Information Studies
- Nursing
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Special Education
Publications
LHRT Leadership, Programs, and Awards, 1998–2023, Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, 2023
Library History as a Community, Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, 2023
What's on Public Library Shelves?: Urban Holdings of Juvenile Works Recommended for Catholic Audiences, Catholic Library World, 2022
‘We Need Diverse E-Books:’ Availability of Award-Winning Children’s and Young Adult Titles in Today’s E-Book Platforms, Collection Management, 2021
Are Ada, Katherine, Sally, and Sophie on-Shelf?: Holdings of Award-Winning Juvenile STEM Works in ARL Libraries with a Special Focus on Female-Themed Titles, Collection Management, 2021
Nineteenth Century Middle Class Women as Economic Beings: The Early Life and Career of Hannah Packard James, Newton Librarian, Historical Journal of Massachusetts, 2016
Frog and Toad make friends: Cooperative development of preK-12 collections at a multicampus university, College and Research Libraries News, 2015
Libraries and Reading Culture at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1879–1918, Book History, 2015
Pennsylvania Public Libraries and the Great Flood of 1936: Dark Clouds and Silver Linings, Pennsylvania Libraries: Research & Practice, 2014
Were Tom and Huck on-shelf? Public libraries, Mark Twain, and the formation of accessible canons, 1869-1910, Nineteenth-Century Literature, 2009
Recent Approaches in Contemporary Amish Youth Studies: A Book Review Essay, Der Reggeboge (The Rainbow): The Journal of the Pennsylvania German Society, 2009
Wishing they were there: Old postcards and library history, Libraries and the Cultural Record, 2008
Making Library Resources Accessible to All, Interview, 2008
The Zen of serving on thesis committees: Being a midwife for new scholarship, College and Research Libraries News, 2007
Book History in Scarlet Letters: The Beginning and Growth of a College Yearbook during the Gilded Age, Book History, 2006
'Tis better to be brief than tedious? the evolution of the American public library annual report, 1876-2004, Libraries and the Cultural Record, 2006
Cool Curriculum Event Brings Publishers and Resources to the Library, Capital College Libraries News, 2006
Study Event is ‘Extremely’ Successful, Capital College Libraries News, 2005
Performances
Freedom Wasn't Free: Alabama Department of Public Safety Photographs of the Selma—Montgomery Marches, March 7th-25th, 1965, MIddletown, PA, 2/1/2005
Other Publications
Books
Made Free and Thrown Open to the Public: A History of Community Libraries in Pennsylvania from the Colonial Era through World War II, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021
Directory of Curriculum Materials Centers, Association of College and Research Libraries, 2009
Chapters
'We Are ... Library Users!': Developing a Liberatory Library Instruction Program for College Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Liberatory Librarianship: Case Studies of Information Professionals Supporting Justice, 2024
Library History Seminar XIV: The Conference We Wanted To Have, Libraries Without Borders: Proceedings of Library History Seminar XIV, 2023
Middle-Class Values and Self-Help Books, 2011
Book/Film/Article Reviews
Review of American Public School Librarianship: A History, by Wayne A. Wiegand, College & Research Libraries, 2022
McCarthyism in the Suburbs: Quakers, Communists, and the Children's Librarian, Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, 2021
From Anesthesia to X-Rays: Innovations and Discoveries that Changed Medicine Forever, Reference & User Services Quarterly, 2018
Encyclopedia of Humor Studies, Reference & User Services Quarterly, 2015
Encyclopedia of Social Networks, Reference & User Services Quarterly, 2012
Encyclopedia of Identity, Reference & User Services Quarterly, 2011
Encyclopedia of Case Study Research, Reference & User Services Quarterly, 2010
Combating Student Plagiarism: An Academic Librarian's Guide, Reference & User Services Quarterly, 2010
Encyclopedia of Cybercrime, Reference & User Services Quarterly, 2009
The New Woman as Librarian: The Career of Adelaide Hasse, Libraries & the Cultural Record, 2007
Magazine/Trade Publications
We Are The Difference: Libraries, History, and Helping Customers, Public Libraries, 2009
Spring Cleaning?—Don’t Throw Out Our Archives!, PaLA Bulletin, 2009
PaLA’s Most Wanted, PaLA Bulletin, 2008
The Pennsylvania Library Club and Western Pennsylvania Library Association: Forgotten Chapters in PaLA’s History?, PaLA Bulletin, 2008
PaLA’s Archives Get a Facelift, PaLA Bulletin, 2008
Picture Book Illustrations Featured in Art Exhibit at Penn State Harrisburg, PaLA Bulletin, 2006
A Pennsylvania Library Collaborative Celebrates its Past and Plans for Its Future, Against the Grain, 2005
Newsletters
Nameless No More: Writing All Women into Library History, Women in Libraries: The Newsletter of the American Library Association SRRT Feminist Task Force, 2014
Byways: The Uris Library of Cornell University, LHRT Newsletter, 2012
What Is It?: The Perfect Pencil Sharpener, LHRT Newsletter, 2012
Perspectives: Tropic of Cancer and Our Courage to Read, LHRT Newsletter, 2012
Primary Source Spotlight: Classics in American Librarianship, LHRT Newsletter, 2012
Libraries in the Lives of Their Users: A Teacher Describes Her Hometown Library, 1894, LHRT Newsletter, 2011
Byways: The Amelia Givin Free Library, Mount Holly Springs, PA, LHRT Newsletter, 2011
Pathbreakers: Almarine McKellop and Sarah Smith, First American Indian Librarians?, LHRT Newsletter, 2011
What Is It?: The "V.F.", LHRT Newsletter, 2011
Get Involved with LHRT!, LHRT Newsletter, 2010
Primary Source Spotlight: The ALA Catalog, LHRT Newsletter, 2010
What Is It?: The Perforating Stamp, LHRT Newsletter, 2010
Comment/Debates
Frog and Toad’s ongoing journey cooperative acquisition of award-winning children’s and young adult titles at a multicampus university, College and Research Libraries News, 2018
Editorials
Introduction, Information and Culture, 2013
Others
A state library transformed: Pennsylvania, 1878-1921, Information and Culture, 2013
New journals in education and psychology: General trends, discoverability, and ubiquitous journals of the decade, 2000-2009, College and Research Libraries, 2012
Yankee librarian in the Diamdnd City: Hannah Packard James, the Osterhout free library of Wilkes-Barre, and the public library movement in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania History, 2011
The hippest history, Library Journal, 2005