Publications

Books

Lo, P., Anghelescu, H., & Allard, B. (forthcoming). Inside major East Asian library collections in North America. 2 vols. Emerald Publishing.

Lo, P., Wu, S. H. S., Stark, A. J., & Allard, B. (2021). Literacy and reading programmes for children and young people: Case studies around the world. 2 vols. Apple Academic Press.

Lo, P., Chiu, D., Cho, A., & Allard, B. (2019). Conversations with the world’s leading academic and research library directors: International perspectives on library management. Chandos Publishing.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Lo, P., Allard, B., Anghelescu, H. G. B., Xin, Y., & Chiu, D. K. W. (2020). Transformational leadership practice in the world’s leading academic libraries. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. 52(4), 972–999.

Lau, K. S. N., Lo, P., Chiu, D. K. W., Ho, K. K. W., Jiang, T., Zhou, Q., Percy, P., & Allard, B. (2020). Library and learning experiences turned mobile: A comparative study between LIS and non-LIS students. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 46(2).

Allard, B., Lo, P., Liu, Q., Ho, K. K. W., Chiu, D. K. W., Chen, J. C. C., Zhou, Q., & Jiang, T. (2020). LIS pre-professionals’ perspectives towards library user education: A comparative study between three universities in Greater China. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. 52(3), 832–852. 

Lo, P., Allard, B., Wang, N., & Chiu, D. (2020). Servant leadership theory in practice: North America’s leading public libraries. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. 52(1), 249–270.

Lo., P., So, S., Liu, Q., Allard, B., & Chiu, D. K. W. (2019). Chinese students’ motivations for overseas versus domestic MLIS education: A comparative study between the University of Tsukuba and Shanghai University. College & Research Libraries, 80(7), 1013–1035.

Lo, P., Allard, B., Ho, K. K. W., Chen, J., Okada, D., Stark, A., Henri, J., & Lai, C. (2019). Librarians’ perspectives of educational values of comic books: A comparative study between Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 51(4), 1103–1119.

Liu, Q., Allard, B., Lo, P., Zhou, Q., Jiang, T., & Itsumura, H. (2019). Library user education as a window to understand inquiry-based learning in the context of higher education in Asia. College & Research Libraries, 80(1), 8–31.

Deng, Q., Allard, B., Lo, P., Chiu, D., See-To, E. K. W., & Bao, A. Z. R. (2019). The role of the library café as a learning space: A comparative analysis of three universities. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 51(3), 823–842.

Lo, P., Ho, K. K. W., Allard, B., Hong, S. C., & Liu, Y. (2019). Reading the city via the public central library in the sociocultural context: A comparative study between the Hong Kong Central Library, Shanghai Library and Taipei Public Library. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 51(2), 458–472.

Lo, P., Cho, A., Law, B. K. K., Chiu, D. K. W., & Allard, B. (2017). Progressive trends in electronic resources management among academic libraries in Hong Kong. Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services, 40(1–2), 28–37.