Faculty

Gloria J. Leckie
Associate Professor

North Campus Building Room 215 Phone: 519-661-2111 x86459 University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7 Fax: 519-661-3506 Email: leckie@uwo.ca

Teaching
My areas of teaching centre around cataloguing and classification, academic librarianship, foundations of library and information science, and library as place. I teach in both the MLIS and PhD programs.

Research Interests
My early research was primarily related to higher education and academic libraries. In particular, I have looked at faculty status for academic librarians, downsizing in academic libraries, information literacy in higher education, and have recently written on information seeking in public libraries. Lately I have been exploring the role of libraries as public space. In particular, I am interested in how libraries foster a sense of community and what libraries (even large physically imposing libraries) mean to their various clienteles. In addition, arising out of my experience teaching cataloging and previously working as a cataloger, I have begun exploring how regulation theory could be useful in understanding the persistence of problems that users experience with library OPACs and web portals.

Selected Publications

Forthcoming spring 2010. Leckie, Gloria J., Lisa M. Given, and John E. Buschman (eds). Critical Theory for Library and Information Science: Exploring the Social from Across the Disciplines. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited.

2008. Leckie, Gloria J. and John Buschman (eds). Information Technology in Librarianship: New Critical Approaches. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited.

2008. Leckie, Gloria J., Lisa Given and Grant Campbell. Technologies of social regulation: an examination of library OPACs and Web portals. pp. 221-260 in Information Technology in Librarianship: New Critical Approaches (ed. by Gloria J. Leckie and John Buschman). Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited.

2006. Buschman, John and Gloria J. Leckie. (eds.) Library as Place: History, Community and Culture. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited.

2006. Leckie, Gloria J. and Buschman, John. Space, Place and Libraries. In Buschman, John and Gloria J. Leckie. (eds.) Library as Place: History, Community and Culture. 24 pp. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited.

2005. Leckie, Gloria J. General Model of the Information Seeking of Professionals. pp. 158-163 in Theories of Information Behaviour, ed. by Karen E. Fisher, Sanda Erdelez and Lynne McKechnie. Medford, N.J.: Information Today.

2005. Leckie, Gloria J. and Given, Lisa M. Understanding information-seeking: the public library context. Advances in Librarianship. vol. 29, pp. 1-72. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

2004. Leckie, Gloria J. Three perspectives on the library as public space. (In special issue of Feliciter devoted to Library Space, Planning and Architecture) Feliciter 50(6), 233-36.

2003. Given, Lisa and Gloria J. Leckie. "Sweeping" the library: mapping the social activity space of the public library. Library and Information Science Research, 25(4), p.365-85.

2002. Leckie, Gloria J. and Jeffrey Hopkins. The Public place of central libraries: findings from Toronto and Vancouver. Library Quarterly, v. 72(3), July, p. 326-72.

2002. Fullerton, Anne and Gloria J. Leckie. Information Literacy and Higher Education, pp. 190-205 in Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, v. 70, supp. 33. New York: Marcel Dekker.

1999. Leckie, Gloria J. and Anne Fullerton. Information literacy in science and engineering undergraduate education: faculty attitudes and pedagogical practices. College & Research Libraries, 60(1), p. 9-30.

1999. Leckie, Gloria J. and Anne Fullerton. The roles of academic librarians in fostering a pedagogy for information literacy. pp. 191-201 in Racing Toward Tomorrow: Proceedings of the 9th National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, April 8-11, 1999, ed. by Hugh Thompson. Chicago: ACRL.

1997. Hassard Wilkins, Janie and Gloria J. Leckie. University professional and managerial staff: information needs and seeking. College & Research Libraries, 59(6), p. 561-75.

1997. Julien, Heidi and Gloria J. Leckie. Bibliographic instruction trends in Canadian academic libraries. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 22(2), p. 1-15.

1997. Leckie, Gloria J. and Jim Brett. Canadian academic librarians and job satisfaction: national survey. College & Research Libraries, 58(1), p. 1-17.

1997. Leckie, Gloria J. and Karen Pettigrew. A general model of the information-seeking of professionals: role theory through the back door? Information Seeking in Context: Proceedings of an International Conference on Research in Information Needs, Seeking and Use in Different Contexts, 14-16 August, 1996, Tampere, Finland. edited by P. Vakkari, R. Savolainen & B. Dervin. London: Taylor Graham.

1996. Leckie, Gloria J. Female farmers and the social construction of access to agricultural information. Library and Information Science Research, 18(4), p. 297-322.

1996. Leckie, Gloria J. "They never trusted me to drive": farm girls and the gender relations of agricultural information transfer. Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 3(3), p. 309-25.

1996. Leckie, Gloria J. Desperately seeking citations: uncovering faculty assumptions about the undergraduate research process. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 22(3), p. 201-15.

1996. Leckie, Gloria J., Karen Pettigrew and Christian Sylvain. Modelling the information-seeking of professionals: a general model derived from research on engineers, health care professionals and lawyers. Library Quarterly, 66(2), p. 161-93.

1996. Julien, Heidi, Gloria J. Leckie and Roma Harris. Changing technologies in Canadian academic library user education. p. 26-36 in the Canadian Association for Information Science Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference: Electronic Publishing: Its Impact on Publishing, Education and Reading, edited by Charles Meadow, Maggie Weaver and Francoise Hebert. Toronto: Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto.

1995. Leckie, Gloria J. and Jim Brett. Academic status for Canadian university librarians: an examination of key terms and conditions. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 20(1), p. 1-28.

1995. Leckie, Gloria J. and Becky Rogers. Reactions of academic librarians to job loss through downsizing: an exploratory study. College & Research Libraries, 56(2), p. 144-56.

1995. Leckie, Gloria J. Intergenerational literacy and the adult re-entry student. Access, Fall, p. 11-13.

1993. Leckie, Gloria J. Female farmers in Canada and the gender relations of a restructuring agricultural system. The Canadian Geographer, 37(3) , p. 212-29.

1993. Leckie, Gloria J. 1993. Female farmers in Canada, 1971-1986. The Professional Geographer, 45(2), p. 180-93.

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