LYNNE E.F. MCKECHNIE, Associate Professor at the school of Library and Information Studies, University of Western Ontario, is conduction a longitudinal study of the role of the public library in the lives of 30 children.
PAULETTE M. ROTHBAUER, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, has done extensive research on adolescent readers and the role of pleasure-reading in the discovery of identity. She is the winner of the Eugene Garfield Dissertation Competition.