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City: San Francisco, CA
Telephone:
  1-415-564-3096

Teaching & Professional Interests

• Children's / YA Literatures
• Children's Services

Research Interests

• Children's / YA Literatures
• Children's Services

Dr. Adele Fasick

Lecturer

Dr. Adele Fasick was a member of the faculty at the University of Toronto for 25 years and was dean of the Faculty of Information Studies from 1990 to 1995. Currently she is a part-time lecturer teaching courses on services and resources for children. Her books include ChildView: Evaluating and Reviewing Materials for Children (with Claire England. Littleton, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, 1987) and Managing Children's Services in Public Libraries. Her most recent research was a study of children's use of libraries published as Opening Doors to Children: Reading, Media and Public Library Use by Children in Six Canadian Cities.

She is a member and has served on committees in the American Library Association, the Canadian Library Association, the Association for Library and Information Science Education, and the International Federation of Library Associations in the Section on Children's Libraries and the Reading Section.

Courses Taught

• > [260A] Programming and Services for Children
• > [261A] Programming and Services for Young Adults
• > [264] Material for Tweens
• > [267] Seminar in Services to Children and Young Adults

Education

• PhD (Library Science) Case Western Reserve Univ. (1970)
• MSLS (Library Science) Columbia Univ. (1956)
• MA (English Literature) Columbia Univ. (1954)

Academic & Professional Experience

• Lecturer, SLIS, San José State Univ. (1999-)
• Dean, Faculty of Library and Information Science, Univ. of Toronto (1990-95)
• Director, Centre for Research in Library and Information Science, University of Toronto (1981-89)
• Professor, Faculty of Library and Information Science, University of Toronto (1980-96)
• Associate Professor, Faculty of Library and Information Science Univ. of Toronto (1976-80)
• Assistant Professor, Faculty of Library and Information Science, Univ. of Toronto (1971-76)
• Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Library Science, Rosary College, River Forest, Illinois (1970-71)

Selected Publications  (last five years only)

• Opening Doors to Children: Reading, Media and Public Library Use by Children in Six Canadian Cities. With Andre Gagnon, Lynne Howarth, Ken Setterington. Regina, Sask: Regina Public Library, 2005.
• "Is Literacy for All an Achievable Goal?" (2000). The New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship 6:37-51
• "Support for Reading in Developing Countries" (2000). Bookbird (vol. 38 #1), pp. 63-64
• Managing Children's Services in Public Libraries, Second Edition. (1998). Englewood: CO: Libraries Unlimited

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