Published Work about Reading Practices, Readers, and Reading in Immigration 

• Dali, K. (2021). A calling, not a call of duty: Public librarians’ engagement with immigrant communities (under review). Supported by SSHRC. 
• Dali, K. (2021). Learning about immigrant and migrant readers, transforming libraries: Spanish-speaking readers in North America. Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science (CJILS). 44 (2/3). Forthcoming. Supported by SSHRC. 
• Dali, K. (2021). The image of the library through the eyes of immigrant and migrant readers. Journal of Documentation, 77(5), 1073-1095.  Supported by SSHRC.
• Dali, K. (2021). Fostering the reading experience for Spanish-speaking readers: Post-migration changes in reading practices and the implication for libraries. The Reference Librarian, 62(1), 34-58.  Supported by SSHRC.
• Dali, K., Brillante, A.M., Bass, P.I., Love, A.M., Byrnes, L., Fontaine, A. & Buren, M.M. (2021). Conversing with readers: A framework for the reading experience conversation. The Reference Librarian.  
• Dali, K. (2021). Reading practices of Spanish-speaking readers in the United States and Canada. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science.  Supported by SSHRC.
• Dali, K., Vannier, C. & Douglass, L. (2021). Reading experience librarianship: Working with readers in the 21st century. Journal of Documentation, 77 (1), 259- 283.  

• Dali, K. & Brochu, L. (2020). The right to listen: A not so simple matter of audiobooks. Library Resources & Technical Services, 64(3), 109-116. 
• Dali, Keren and Lindsay McNiff. “Reading Work as a Diversity Practice: A Differentiated Approach to Reading Promotion in Academic Libraries in North America.” Journal of Librarianship and Information Science (JoLIS) 52, no. 4 (2020), 1050–1062. 
• Dali, Keren. “Integrating Social Work Perspectives into LIS Education: Blended Professionals as Change Agents” In Johnna Percel et al. (Eds.). Re-envisioning the MLS: Perspectives on the Future of Library and Information Science Education. Advances in Librarianship. 44 (2018): 83–121. In part supported by SSHRC. 
• Dali, Keren. “Readers’ Histories as a Way of Studying and Understanding Multicultural Library Communities,” The Library Review 65, no. 8/9 (2016): 519-534. 

• Dali, Keren. “How We Missed the Boat: Reading Scholarship and the Field of LIS.” New Library World 116, no. 9/10 (2015): 477-502. 
• Dali, Keren. “Readers Advisory: Can We Take It to the Next Level?” Library Review 64, no. 4/5 (2015): 372-92. 
• Dali, Keren, and Lana “Learning about Translators from Library Catalog Records: Implications for Readers’ Advisory.” New Library World 116, no. 5/6 (2015): 264-76. 
• Dali, Keren, and Lana Alsabbagh. “Access to Translated Fiction in Canadian Public Libraries.” Reference Services Review 42, no. 4 (2014): 569-602. 
• Dali, Keren. “On Dangers of Reading and Bibliotherapy”: two papers written for the NoveList (EBSCO) database (2014) (https://www.ebsco.com/blogs/novelist/dangers-reading; https://www.ebsco.com/blogs/novelist/bibliotherapy). 

• Dali, Keren. “Understanding Immigrant Readers through Their Reading Practices.” OLA Access Magazine 18, no. 1 (2012): 36-37. (invited) 
• Dali, Keren. (2010). “Immigrant Readers Feeling ‘at Home’ in Library Reading Programs.” Readers’ Advisor News, Libraries Unlimited, 2010 (invited contribution).  
• Dali, Keren. “From Book Appeal to Reading Appeal: Redefining the Concept of Appeal in Readers’ Advisory.” The Library Quarterly 84, no. 1 (2014): 22-48. 
• Dali, Keren. “‘Ask Me What I Read’: Readers’ Advisory and Immigrant Adaptation.” New Library World 114, no. 11/12 (2013): 507-26. 
• Dali, Keren. “Hearing Stories, Not Keywords: Teaching Contextual Readers’ Advisory.” Reference Services Review, 41(3), 474-502. 

• Dali, Keren. “Books in Their Suitcases: Leisure Reading in the Lives of Russian-Speaking Immigrants in Canada. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science (JoLIS) 45, no. 4 (2013): 261-93. 
• Dali, Keren. “Reading Their Way through Immigration: The Leisure Reading Practices of Russian- Speaking Immigrants in Canada.” Library & Information Science Research (LISR) 34, no. 3 (2012): 197-211. 
• Dali, Keren. “Readers’ Advisory in Public Libraries and Translated Fiction.” The Reference Librarian 51, no. 3 (2010): 175-88. 
• Dali, Keren. “Readers’ Advisory Interactions with Immigrant Readers.” New Library World  111, no. 5/6 (2010): 213-222. 
• Dilevko, Juris and Keren Dali. “Book History and Ideological Hierarchies.” Intercultural Education 17, no. 2 (2006): 221-33. 

• Dali, Keren. “Russian-Language Periodicals in Toronto: Information Sources for Immigrants and Records for Documenting Community.” Slavic & East European Information Resources (SEEIR) 6, no. 1 (2005): 57-100. 
• Dali, Keren. “Reading by Russian-Speaking Immigrants in Toronto: Use of Public Libraries, Bookstores, and Home Book Collections.” International Information and Library Review 36, no. 4 (2004): 341-66. 
• Dilevko, Juris and Keren Dali. “Electronic Databases for Readers’ Advisory Services and Intellectual Access to Translated Fiction not Originally Written in English.” Library Resources and Technical Services 47, no. 3 (2003): 80-95. 
• Dali, Keren. “From Russia with Books: Reading and Readership in the Russian-Speaking Community in Toronto.” Toronto Slavic Quarterly, 2 (2002). 

Models of Reading in Immigration

The Model of Acculturation Stress in the Leisure Domain (descrbed in: Dali, Keren. “Reading Their Way through Immigration: The Leisure Reading Practices of Russian- Speaking Immigrants in Canada.” Library & Information Science Research (LISR) 34, no. 3 (2012): 197-211). 

The Model of Acculturation Strategies Employed by Immigrant Readers in Various Life Domains (descrbed in: Dali, Keren. “Reading Their Way through Immigration: The Leisure Reading Practices of Russian- Speaking Immigrants in Canada.” Library & Information Science Research (LISR) 34, no. 3 (2012): 197-211).

The Temporal-Dynamic Model of Reading (descrbed in: Dali, Keren. “From Book Appeal to Reading Appeal: Redefining the Concept of Appeal in Readers’ Advisory.” The Library Quarterly 84, no. 1 (2014): 22-48). 

Research Instruments

A sample Survey Instrument for Exploring Leisure Reading Practices of Immigrant and Migrant Readers 

A Sample Survey Instrument for Exploring Leisure Reading Practices of Immigrant and Migrant Readers 

Relevant Online Projects - Past and Present 

Reading Experience Librarianship in World Languages   https://readingexperiencelibrarian.wordpress.com/

Global Story Connection based on the grant project titled “Mainstreaming Stories from around the World: Reviews of Children’s International Literature in English Translation” – an American Library Association (ALA) Carnegie-Whitney grant  https://www.globalstoryconnection.org/

Bibliotherapy for Librarians https://bibliotherapyforlibrarians.wordpress.com