Research

Publications & Works-in-Progress

Potterversity is a podcast devoted to Harry Potter studies. From the website: “In the hallowed halls of Potterversity, hosts Katy McDaniel (Marietta College) and Emily Strand (Mt. Carmel College and Signum University) explore the Harry Potter series and wider Wizarding World from a critical academic perspective with scholars from a variety of fields, finding new ways to read and opening new doors. Made in association with MuggleNet.com.”

Potterversity’s Podcast #19 is about my book The Forever Fandom of Harry Potter (Cambridge University Press), about what makes Harry Potter fan communities unique, and about the limits of fandom.

Peer-Reviewed Monographs

Martens, M. & Vardell, S. Vardell, S. (in-progress). Children’s literature in action: A librarians’ guide (4th ed.). Bloomsbury.

Martens, M. & Thomas, D. (in-progress). The librarian advocate: A roadmap for empowering youth services librarians. ALA Editions.

Martens, M. (June, 2019). The forever fandom of Harry Potter: Balancing fan agency and corporate control. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Martens, M. (July, 2016). Publishers, readers, and digital engagement: Participatory forums and young adult publishing. London, England: Palgrave, Macmillan as part of the New Directions in Book History Series.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Balling, G. & Martens, M. (2024). BookTok helped us sell it: How TikTok disrupts publishing and fuels the #romantasy boom. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. doi: 10.1177/13548565241301271

Martens, M., Balling, G., and Higgason, K. (2022). #BookTokMadeMeReadIt: young adult reading communities across an international, sociotechnical landscape. Journal of Information and Learning Sciences, 123 (11/12). pp. 705-722. https://doi.org/10.1108/ILS-07-2022-0086

Hajibayova, L., Martens, M., and Buente, W. (2022- Under Review). Co-Playing on Animal Crossing's Island Utopia: Young Children's Information Needs, Seeking, and Discovery.

Martens, M., Caniglia, C., Hajibayova, L., Kelly, V., Mupinga, D., Rinnert, G.C., Slaughter, V., & Campana, K. (2021- In-progress). Lessons learned: Developing teaching and learning materials for Nigeria. To be submitted to the International Journal of Educational Development.

Martens, M., Hajibayova, L., Campana, K., Rinnert, G. C., Caniglia, J., Bakori Isa, G., Kamiyama, K., Liman, A., Mupinga, D. M., & Oh, J. (2020, November). ‘Being on the wrong side of the digital divide:’ Seeking technological interventions for education in Northeast Nigeria. Aslib Journal of Information Management.

Campana, K., Martens, M., Filippi, A. & Clunis, J. (2020). A “library school:” Building a collaborative preschool-library partnership to support whole family engagement. Early Childhood Education Journal.

Mills, J., Campana, K., Haines, C., Martens, M. (2019, Winter). Where are we now? A comparison of technology use with young children in libraries from 2014 and 2018. Children & Libraries: The Journal of the Association for Library Service to Children, 17, (4), pp. 23-32.

Martens, M., Rinnert, G. C., Andersen, C. (2018, December). Child-Centered design: Developing an inclusive letter writing app. Frontiers in Psychology. (Special edition on Human Computer Interaction: Interactive Digital Technologies and Early Childhood). Front. Psychol. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02277

Mooney, A., Martens, M. & Rinnert, G.C. (2018). Energetic Alpha: Co-designing a tool that encourages three- to six-year-olds to develop handwriting skills. Dialectic: A Scholarly Journal of Thought Leadership, Education and Practice in the Discipline of Visual Communication Design, 2(1). Retrieved from https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic/14932326.0002.109?view=text;rgn=main

Martens, M. (2017). “An Entry-Level Field:” A California case study on new media in youth services programming. The New Review of Children’s Literature and Librarianship, 23(1), p. 1-23.

Martens, M. (2015). Gaming the Reading Experience: Book-related Social Spaces for Young Children. Nordisk Tidsskrift for Informationsvidenskab og Kulturformidling (Nordic Journal of Information Science and Cultural Communication), 2(4), p. 29-40. Special Issue on Digital Youth.

Martens, M. (2015). Childhood and culture reflected through the lens of LIS education: Embedded practice in Danish library and information science education. The Journal of Education in Library and Information Science, 56(1). Special issue on International Perspectives in LIS Education.

Martens, M. (2014). Reading and gamification: Joining guilds, earning badges, and leveling up: Gamified reading for young people. Children & Libraries: The Journal of the Association for Library Service to Children, 12(4), pp. 19-25.

Martens, M. (2013). The Librarian Lion: Constructing children’s literature through connections, capital, and criticism. The Journal of Education in Library and Information Science, 54(4), p. 307-319.

Martens, M. (2013). Considerations of how children think: Danish responses to the International Children’s Digital Library. New Review of Children’s Literature and Librarianship, 19(2), p. 139-156.

Martens, M. (2012). Issues of access and usability in designing digital libraries for children. Library and Information Science Research 34(3), p. 159-168.

Martens, M. (2011). Transmedia teens: Affect, immaterial labor, and user generated content. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 17(1).

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

Balling, G. & Martens. M. and Wise, J. (forthcoming). Transmedia book love: Young people’s digital creativity on the Bookternet, in Nina Christensen, Sarah Mygind, and Corinna Norrick-Rühl (Eds.) Transmedia aspects of children’s literature.

Martens, M. (2024). The Norwegian ideals of modern womanhood and identity construction through the women’s library. In Marija Dalbello and Sarah Wadsworth (Eds.), Global Voices from the Women’s Library at the World’s Columbian Exposition: Feminisms, Transnationalism and the Archive. Palgrave-Macmillan.

Martens, M. (2022). Read, Write, Play, Review: Young Children’s Connected Reading Communities. In Coats, K., Stevenson, D., & Yenika-Agbaw, V. (Eds.), A Companion to Children’s Literature.

Rinnert, G. C., Mooney, A. & Martens, M. (2018). Energetic Alpha: Motion design as a cross-disciplinary collaboration. In R. B. Stone and L. Wahlin (Eds.), The theory and practice of motion design: Critical perspectives and professional practice. New York, NY: Routledge.

Martens, M. (2016). “Reading the readers: Tracking visible online reading audiences.” In P. M. Rothbauer, K.I. Skjerdingstad, L.E.F. McKechnie, & K. Oterholm (Eds.), Plotting the Reading Experience: Theory/practice/politics. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Martens, M. (2016). International children’s literature and subversive cultural exchange. In A. Goldsmith (Ed.), Reading the world's stories: An annotated bibliography of international youth literature. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Invited.

Martens, M. (2010). “Consumed by Twilight: The commodification of young adult literature.” In M.A. Click, J.S. Aubrey, and E. Behm-Morawitz, E. (Eds.), Bitten by Twilight: Youth Culture, Media, & the Vampire Franchise.

Invited Foreword, Edited Book

Martens, M. (2020). “Foreword.” In P. Lo, S.H.S. Wu, A. Stark & B. Allard (Eds.), Literacy and Reading Programmes for Children and Young People: Case Studies from around the Globe. Palm Bay, FL: Apple Academic Press.

Reports

Martens, M., Rankin, C., Kolaric, A., & Higgason, K.A. (2022). Report on the Safer Internet Day Baseline Survey for the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).

Martens, M., Rinnert, G. C., & Mooney, A. (2016). Energetic Alpha App: A progress report on the CCI seed grant.

Caserotti, G., Fellows, M., Hoptay Brown, J., Martens, M., Reese, L., & Silverman, S. (2015, Jun 26). Second report from the Evolving Carnegie Task Force to the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) Board. Presented to the ALSC Board in June 2015.

Campbell, C., Caserotti, G., Fellows, M., Hoptay Brown, J., Martens, M., & Silverman, S. (2015). Report from the Evolving Carnegie Task Force to the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) Board. Presented to the ALSC Board in January 2015.

Martens, M. (2014). Report on the Digital Literacy Evaluation Project: Evaluation of two LSTA grant-funded children’s technology spaces at the Rancho Cucamonga Public Library.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers in Proceedings

Rinnert, G. C., Campana, K., Martens, M., Mupinga, D., Caniglia, J., Malgwi, G., Kamiyama, T., Filippi, (2020). Synergy through Making: Co-Designing with Educational Stakeholders in Northeastern Nigeria. DRS2020 Brisbane, Australia (conference went virtual because of COVID19).

Rinnert, G. C., Campana, K., Martens, M., and Kociubuk, J. (2019). Playing with Handwriting: Creating a Game-Based App for Learning Cursive. Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Games Based Learning. October 2019, Odense, Denmark.

Mills, J., Campana, K., Martens, M., and Haines, C. (2019). The evolving landscape of children’s librarians’ use of new media with young children and their caregivers: A longitudinal study. (Visual Presentation Abstract). Proceedings of the 81st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

Mills, J., Campana, K., Martens, M., and Haines, C. (2018). Where the wired things are: A study of current technology use in public library programming for young children. 2018 Connected Learning Summit.

Rinnert, G.C., Martens, M., Mooney, A., Talbot, J., Rinnert, B. (2017). Energetic Alpha: Playful handwriting practice for children. Proceedings from IDC 16: ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Interaction Design and Children. June 27-30, 2017, Stanford, CA. New York, NY: ACM Digital Library.

Peterson-Kemp, A., Fisher, K., Martens, M., & Meyers, E. (2017) “Ray of sunshine happiness gun” and other apps in pursuit of social justice: Teens’ designs from Philadelphia. Proceedings from iConference, March 2017, Wuhan, China. (Proceedings to come)

Cooke, N.A., Martens, M. & Junker, B. (2016). Dismantling information poverty in cultural production for young people. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 53: 1-4. Copenhagen, Denmark. doi: 10.1002/pra2.2016.14505301020

Martens, M. (2011). Team Edward or Team Jacob? How user-generated content is transforming young adult literature. iConference 2011 Proceedings. Seattle, WA.

Martens, M. (2009). Reading around the world: Evaluating Danish children’s use of the International Children’s Digital Library. Conference Proceedings, Libraries in the Digital Age. Dubrovnik and Zadar, Croatia.

Refereed Conference Papers: International

Martens, M. and Balling, G. (2024). From #booknookdiy to radical rebinds: Material expressions of book love in a sociotechnical landscape. Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. University of Reading, UK.

Fuller, D., Ramdarshan Bold, Mygind, S., Balling, G. and Martens, M., & Naihuei Hsieh, N. (2024) (Plenary Panel) YA on the rise: Transnational issues in a transmedia age. Or, why book history and YA studies need each other. Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. University of Reading, UK.

Martens, M. & Kolaric, A. (2022). Libraries for children & young adult’s report on the 2021 Safer
Internet Day baseline survey. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions   (IFLA) World Library and Information Congress. Dublin, Ireland.

Bettega, E., Dahl Mortensen, S., Hauke, P., Kolaric, A., Martens, M., Mwanzu, A., & Sahavirta, H., Toril
Moreno, R. & Visuri, V. (2022). Climate action in libraries: Creating a more sustainable future by engaging and inspiring youth. Co-chair of a co-sponsored session between IFLA’s Section on Libraries for Children and Young Adults, and IFLA’s Section on Environment, Sustainability, and Libraries. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) World Library and Information Congress. Dublin, Ireland.

Martens, M. (2021, August). Safer Internet Day working group: Where it started. Portion of the Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section’s presentation at the World Library and Information Congress. Online because of COVID19.

Martens, M. (2021, July). Supporting Reading in Northeast Nigeria. SHARP 2021. Münster, Germany, but online because of COVID19. Grace Malgwi, Ph.D.; Gretchen Caldwell Rinnert, MGD; Joanne Caniglia, Ph.D.; Davison Mupinga, Ph.D.; Lala Hajibayova, Ph.D.; Valerie Kelly, M.S., M.A.; and Kathleen Campana, Ph.D. did not contribute to this talk, but contributed to USAID Grant project from which this talk was derived.

Campbell Naidoo, J., Martens, M., Strittmatter, A., McGowan, C., (2020, June). New Competencies of Children’s Librarians: How ALSC Supports Libraries in the Digital Age. Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA). Dubrovnik, Croatia. Accepted, but canceled because of COVID19.

Rinnert, G. C., Campana, K., Martens, M., and Kociubuk, J. (2019, October). Playing with Handwriting: Creating a Game-Based App for Learning Cursive. Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Games Based Learning. Odense, Denmark.

Ramdarshan Bold, M., Phillips, L., Benwell, F., and Martens, M. (2019, August). Silencing within and without YA: Creation, production, dissemination, reception, and criticism. International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL). Stockholm, Sweden.

Martens, M. (2018). From Canon to Fanon: How Harry Potter Fans Destroy, Unmake, Remake, and Revitalize J.K. Rowling’s Books. Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) Conference. June 9-12, 2018. Sydney, Australia.

Martens, M. (2018). Digital reading experiences for young people. IFLA Satellite Meeting, mini conference for Italian Librarians. Florence, Italy.

Rinnert, G.C., Martens, M., Mooney, A., Talbot, J., & Rinnert, B. (2017). Energetic Alpha: Playful handwriting practice for children. ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Interaction Design and Children. June 27-30, 2017. Stanford, CA.

Peterson-Kemp, A., Fisher, K., Martens, M., & Meyers, E. (2017) “Ray of sunshine happiness gun” and other apps in pursuit of social justice: Teens’ designs from Philadelphia. iConference 2017, Wuhan, China.

Martens, M. (2016). “Subversively addressing information poverty: Alma Flor Ada, social justice, and the quest for bilingual books in America 1970-2014.” Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. October, 2016. Copenhagen, Denmark.

Martens, M. (2016). The language of betrayal: Ownership, power, and control of J.K. Rowling’s Pottermore website. Presented at the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) Conference, as part of a panel with Dr. Melanie Ramdarshan-Bold and Dr. Alexis Weedon called The language of ownership: Rights and control in the digital sphere. July
2016. Paris, France.

Martens, M. (2015, October). Knowing the forces and harnessing them: International children’s literature and subversive cultural exchange. Paper presented (in Spanish) at the Congreso Internacional de Lectura 2015, International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). Havana, Cuba.

Martens, M. (2015, August). “Vitello Has a Knife: Examining social constructions on childhood and ensuing cultural Creations in Denmark and the United States. Paper presented at the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) Conference, Worcester, UK.

Martens, M. (2015, July). Longevity through participation, reformatting, and remix: Pop-culture regeneration in Pretty Little Liars. Paper presented at the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) Conference in Montreal, Canada.

Martens, M. (2014, September). Book worship: The business of picturebook publishing in America 1960-2000. Paper presented at the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) conference. Antwerp, Belgium.

Martens, M. and Brodie, C. (2014, September). Reflecting on the Caldecott Award winners and honor books: A history of inclusion? International Board on Books for Young People World Congress. Mexico City, Mexico. [NB: Unable to attend as this conference conflicted with the above-mentioned SHARP conference].

Martens, M. (2013, August). “Marketers,” “authors,” and “readers:” Redefining roles within multiple mediascapes of children’s literature. Paper presented at the International Research Society for Children’s Literature Conference, Maastricht, Netherlands.

Martens, M. (2013, July). Geographies of the young adult novel: Imagined communities of readers. Paper presented at the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) Conference, Philadelphia, PA.

Martens, M. (2013, June). Reading the readers: Tracking visible online reading audiences. Paper presented at Researching the Reading Experience Conference, Oslo, Norway.

Martens, M. (2013, March). Books, gamification and the imagination: Multiplatform books for young readers. Paper presented at The Child and the Book Conference. University of Padua, Padua, Italy.

Martens, M. (2013, February). Lightning talk at the Digital Youth Workshop. iConference 2013, Fort Worth, Texas.

Refereed Conference Papers: National

Martens, M., Kuhlmann, T. (2021, June). “Time is Relative - A conversation with Einstein author/illustrator Torben Kuhlmann and Marianne Martens, Ph.D.” American Library Association Annual Conference. Pre-recorded and virtual because of COVID19. *Invited

Martens, M., Iyengar, R., Campana, K., Stafford, T., Malgwi, G., Caniglia, J., Rinnert, G. (2020, March). Strengthening Education in Northeast Nigeria States. CIES 2020 Miami, the 64th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). Canceled due to COVID19.

Caniglia, J., Iyengar, R., Stafford, T., Rinnert, G., Campana, K., Martens, M., Mupinga, D. (2020, March). Developing Mathematics and Literacy Materials for Northeast Nigeria. CIES 2020 Miami, the 64th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). Canceled due to COVID19.

Haines, C., Mills, J., Campana, K., and Martens, M. (2019, January). And the Survey Says…: Preliminary Results From the 2018 Young Children, New Media, and Libraries Survey of Technology Use in Today’s Libraries. Seattle, WA: American Library Association 2019 Midwinter Meeting.

Campana, K., Mills, E., Martens, M., Haines, C., Prendergast, T. (2018, June). To Tech or Not to Tech: The debate and the research around technology, young children and the library. American Library Association. New Orleans, LA. (unable to attend) Martens, M., & Rinnert, G. C. (2016). The Energetic Alpha App: Infusing quality using co-design and a focus on inclusion. Screen Time Symposium, The Developmental Media Lab at Illinois Institute of Technology. September 9, 2016. Chicago, IL.

Martens, M., Schilling, S. & Van Der Schyf, S. L. (2015, April). From children’s books to global citizenship: The Power of books from around the world. Paper presented at the Virginia Hamilton Conference on Multicultural Literature for Youth. Kent State University, Kent, Ohio.

Campbell, C., Karatsu, R., and Martens, M. (2014, November). RCPL: Leading change with kids’ tech spaces. Paper presented at the California Library Association, Oakland, CA.

Bentley-Flannery, P., Campbell, C., Martens, M., Moore, C. (2014, June). Whet your APPetite: Librarian selected apps for all your digital needs. Panel comprised of members of ALSC’s Children and Technology Committee and Digital Content Task Force. American Library Association, Las Vegas, NV.

Martens, M. & Baldini, M. (2014, April). Digital pearls: Multicultural apps, eBooks, and websites for Young People. Virginia Hamilton Conference on Multicultural Literature for Youth. Kent, Ohio.

Martens, M. (2014, January). I can do it myself: Toward a new paradigm of (children’s) publishing. Lightning talk as part of the panel called: “A risky business: Educational entrepreneurship in youth services” convened by Annette Goldsmith, University of Washington, and Allison G. Kaplan, University of Wisconsin-Madison. ALISE 2014, Philadelphia, PA.

Martens, M. (2014, January). High-touch training through tech: Approaches to online education in youth services. Juried panel with Anthony Bernier, San Jose State University; Marianne Martens, Kent State University; and Joyce Valenza, Rutgers University, convened by Cindy Welch, University of Tennessee. ALISE 2014, Philadelphia, PA.

Martens, M., Baldini, M. & Brodie, C.S. (2013, April). Connecting to special collections of children’s literature. Paper presented at the Virginia Hamilton Conference on Multicultural Literature for Youth. Kent, Ohio.

Martens, M. (2012, September). Desperately seeking dissent: Subversive readings in transmedia storytelling. Paper presented as part of a panel organized by Loretta Gaffney entitled: “The politics of reading: Libraries, pedagogy, publishing, and youth” at the Protest on the Page Print
Culture Conference, Madison, WI.

Martens, M. (2012, February) Beyond print: How hybrid books are redefining storytelling and authorship. Paper presented as part of a panel organized by Casey Brienza, University of Cambridge, entitled “Storied lives in publishing and the literary field” at the Eastern Sociological Society’s Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

Martens, M. and Murray, D. (2012, January). Consuming “Pretty Little Liars:” Postfeminist poptarts in a transmedia text. Paper presented at the Food Networks: Gender and Foodways Conference, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN.

Martens, M. (2011, July). Interlacing text, image, and interactivity: Multiplatform books and technologies of production. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Society of the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), Washington, DC.

Martens, M. (2011, January). The Librarian Lion: Constructing children’s literature through connections, capital, and criticism. Presented ALISE/LMC Award-winning paper at the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) annual conference, San Diego, CA.

Martens, M. (2010, November). Author girls: Transmedia literature and user-generated content. Presented paper as part of a “paper” panel entitled “Gender, agency, and technology” at the National Communication Association’s (NCA) 96th Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.

Martens, M. and Cooke, N. A. (2010). 21st century skills for global awareness and the school library. New Jersey Global Educators Conference, Union, N.J.

Martens, M. (2010, June). Virtual sweatshops: Creating and evaluating young adult literature from the library to the digital realm. Paper accepted to doctoral forum at Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science 7 (CoLIS 7): Unity in Diversity, London, England.

Martens, M. (2009, May). Reading around the world: Evaluating Danish children's use of the International Children’s Digital Library. Presented poster and participated in doctoral forum at Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) annual meeting. Dubrovnik and Zadar, Croatia.

Invited Speaker: International

Martens, M. (2024). Invited talk: Serving Children in Libraries Around the World: Perspectives from IFLA’s C&YA Section. International Library of Children's Literature, National Diet Library, Tokyo, Japan. (Online).

Martens, M. (2024). Invited Keynote: Shaping the Future: Embracing Advanced Technology in Library Services for Children and Young Adults. 16th International Symposium on Library Services for Children and Young Adults, Busan, Republic of Korea, June 2024

Martens, M. (2024). Invited speaker at the Croatian Children’s Library Association Conference (as part of our IFLA Midyear Conference). “Joyful Opposition” in an Age of Censorship, Defunding, and State Control: Subversive Actions to Protect Libraries in America. Zagreb, Croatia.

Martens, M. (2022, November). Invited Speaker and Panelist to represent the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) at the bilingual UNESCO World Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education, Tashkent, Uzbekistan/Conférence mondiale sur l’éducation et la protection de la petite enfance.

Martens, M. (2022, May). Invited Keynote: From #librariansoftiktok to #booktokturkey: How Librarians are Channeling Technology to Meet Young Readers. Third International Children’s Libraries Symposium: “Local Authority Children’s Libraries (Municipalities),” Gaziantep, Turkey. https://www.childrenslibraries.org/marianne-martens/ (Given online as I developed Covid and was unable to travel).

Martens, M., Dahl Mortenson, S., Hellman, S., Larsson, T., Lunne, S., Scheffler, B., Systad, J. (2022, March 24). IFLA’s Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section: An overview. Presentation for the Norwegian Library Association’s Biannual Meeting. Oslo, Norway.

Martens, M. (2022, March 25). Invited Presentation. The MLIS Degree, ALSC Competencies, and Youth Services Librarianship in the Age of COVID: A US Perspective in a Global Context. Hosted by the Committee for Library Services for Children and Young Adults of the Croatian Library Association, Conference on Competencies. Virtual because of Covid-19.

Martens, M. (2021, October 20). Invited Keynote: Silver-lining Innovations: Engaging Young People and Working Towards Online Safety. National Library of the Philippines. 7th International Conference on Children and Young Adult Librarianship (ICCYAL): “Librarian Roles in Combating Pandemic-Related Challenges Among Children and Young Adults.”

Martens, M. (2021, April 20). Establishing 'Taste' in Literature for Youth: From Arbiters of Taste to
Reader Fans. Invited “Theme Lecture” for Seshadripuram Evening Degree College’s Golden   Jubilee, Bengaluru, India. Via Zoom, and live-streamed on Facebook.

Martens, M. (2020, October 13-14). Invited Keynote: From STEM, fandom, and activism, to
#ownvoices and cancel culture: Current trends in North American young adult services.
International Congress: Today’s youth in a modern library. The Russian State Library for
Young Adults, Moscow. Presentation was be recorded and live streamed because of COVID19.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzfnM1wf1og&t=5s. The presentation starts from 1:46:30.

Martens, M. (2020, September 22). Invited Lecture: The Impact of Covid-19 on library service
for children and young adults: An international perspective. Seminar on Library Services
for Children and Young Adults in celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the National Library
of Korea. Pre-recorded presentation because of
COVID19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNij1dHVUYo/ presentation time is from
02:30:12 to 02:59:52.

Martens, M. (2020, March). Literacy as aid work: Designing literacy materials in Northeast Nigeria.
IFLA Satellite Meeting, Odense, Denmark. Canceled because of COVID-19.

Scheffler, B., and Martens, M. (2019, March). IFLA-Richtlinien für bibliotheksangebote für kinder von
0 bis 18 Jahre (IFLA-Guidelines for Youth Services for Children Aged 0-18). Invited international guest at the Leipzig Library Fair, Leipzig, Germany. (Presentation in German).

Martens, M. (2019, February). Contemporary trends in library service to young people in North
America. Japan Library Association Conference, IFLA Satellite Meeting, Tokyo, Japan.

Martens, M. (2018). Digital reading experiences for young people. IFLA Satellite Meeting, mini
conference for Italian Librarians. Florence, Italy.

Martens, M. (2017, May). Media mentorship and emerging technology: How youth services
librarians are shrinking the digital divide. Partnership for Progress on the Digital Divide
International Conference. Invited by the Association for Library Service to Children
(ALSC).

Martens, M. and Campbell, C. (2014, October). The movement around young children, new media &
libraries. Invited by Dr. Judith Saltman and Dr. Eric Meyers, University of British Columbia,   Vancouver.

Martens, M. (2014, June). Poaching readers’ responses: Young people, online book
related sites, and the law. Digital Reading Symposium, Bournemouth University,  Bournemouth, UK.

Invited Speaker: National

Martens, M. (2022, February 21). Potterversity: A Potter Studies Podcast, an academic podcast - made
in association with MuggleNet.com and hosted by Dr. Katy McDaniel (Marietta College) and Emily Strand (Mt. Carmel College/Signum University). Section was about my book, Forever Fandom.

Martens, M., Kuhlmann, T. (2021, June). “Time is Relative - A conversation with Einstein author/
illustrator Torben Kuhlmann and Marianne Martens, Ph.D.” American Library Association

Campana, K., Mills, J.E., Martens, M., & Haines, C. (2019, June). Media Literacy, Computational
Thinking, and Connected Family Learning: Positioning New Media across the Evolving
Landscape of Children’s Services. Washington, DC: ALSC Leadership at ALA Annual Meeting. (Keynote).

Martens, M. (2018, March). The Forever Fandom of Harry Potter: Fan Fiction, Festivals, and
Charitable Works. The Gryphon Lecture. (Invited and named annual lecture series).
University of Illinois, School of Information Sciences. Champaign-Urbana, Il.

Martens, M. (2017, July). “Mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors:” Spanning and
expanding worlds with children’s book illustration. Greenacres Visual Literacy
Conference. Invited by children’s author/illustrator and conference organizer Will
Hillenbrand. Cincinnati, OH. Unable to attend because of death in the family.

Refereed TEDx Talk

Martens, M. (2017). Pottermore and the power of fans. TEDx Kent State. February 17, 2017.
Kent State University, Kent, OH.

Other Writing
Martens, M., Evans, S. & Alexiusson, M. (Eds.) (2023, October). IFLA’s children and young adults section’s special edition newsletter for banned books week: International Views on Banned Books. Available at https://repository.ifla.org/bitstream/123456789/2865/1/IFLA_CYA_SpecialEdition_BBW2023.pdf

Martens, M., Rankin, C. & Kolaric, A. (2022, February 8). IFLA’s safer internet day survey: Report in progress. IFLA Newsletter. Retrieved February 15, 2022 from https://www.ifla.org/news/iflas-safer-internet-day-survey-report-in-progress/

Martens, M. (2020, April). “United States Libraries under the COVID19 Pandemic.” InternationalFederation of Library Associations and Institutions, Newsletter of the section on Libraries forChildren & Young Adults.

Martens, M. and Rinnert, G. C. (2019, February 28). “Intentional design for digital inclusion: Developing Energetic Alpha for preschoolers.” Invited Blog Post for the Joan Ganz Cooney Center [The Cooney Center is the research arm of Sesame Street]. Retrieved from: http://joanganzcooneycenter.org/2019/02/28/intentional-design-for digital-inclusion-developing-energetic-alpha-for-preschoolers/

Campana, K., Mills, J., Haines, C., Prendergast, T., and Martens, M. (in press). To tech or not to tech: The debate and the research around technology, young children, and the library. Children & Libraries.

Kociubuk, J., Campana, K., Mills, J. E., Martens, M., and Haines, C. (2018). Young Children, New Media, and Libraries 2018 Survey Infographic. Web. Published at https://sites.google.com/view/ycnml18/home

Martens, M. (2018). Foreword to Swan Lake by Lisbeth Zwerger. Invited by the publisher, NorthSouth Books, for reissue of book originally published in 2002.

Martens, M. (2016, October). Media Mentorship, Diversity and Inclusion, and the Screen TimeSymposium. ALSC blog: The official blog for the Association for Library Service to Children.

Latham, K. F. & Martens, M. (2016). Convergence in library and museum education: Playing around with curriculum. The Journal of Education in Library and Information Science, 57(1), p 79-82. doi:10.12783/issn.2328-2967/57/1/7

Baldini, M. & Martens, M. (2016, April). Out of the box and into the book: Innovative library partnerships to close the 32 million word gap. Children & Libraries: The Journal of the Association for Library Service to Children.

Martens, M. (2016). Annotation of Wild Wings by Lewis Gill, for Bridges to Understanding monograph on international children’s literature edited by Annette Goldsmith.

Martens, M. (2016). Annotation of The Sky of Afghanistan by Ana Eulate and Sonja Wimmer, for Bridges to Understanding monograph on international children’s literature edited by Annette Goldsmith.

Martens, M. (2016, June 16). Notable children’s recordings committee – ALA Annual 2016. ALSC blog: The official blog for the Association for Library Service to Children.

Martens, M. (2015, April 11). Evolving the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children’s Video. ALSC blog: The official blog for the Association for Library Service to Children.

Martens, M. & Stoltz, D. (2014, August). Ebooks enhance development of the whole child: Up for debate. School Library Journal.

Martens, M. (2014, August 9). Cultural competence in the digital realm: #WeNeedDiverseApps! ALSC blog: The official blog for the Association for Library Service to Children.

Martens, M. (2014, March 3). COPPA-compliant participatory sites for young readers. ALSC blog: The official blog for the Association for Library Service to Children.

Martens, M. (2014, Winter). Technology in children’s programming: A view from the digital trenches. Children & Libraries: The Journal of the Association for Library Service to Children.

Martens, M. (2013, September 14). Digital content: Training future librarians. ALSC blog: The official blog for the Association for Library Service to Children.

Martens, M. (2011). Anne Carroll Moore: Grande dame of children’s literature. Library Media Connection, 29(7).

Martens, M. (2011). Special collections: A pre-conference tour of the de Grummond Collection in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Children & Libraries: The Journal of the Association for Library Service to Children.

Martens, M. (2010, Winter). Touring the children’s literature center at the Library of Congress. Children & Libraries: The Journal of the Association for Library Service to Children, 8(3), p. 51-52.

Martens, M. (2010, Fall). Library history seminar XII: A problematic delight. American Library Association Library History Roundtable Newsletter.

Martens, M. (2009). The SHARP Conference Toronto. SHARPNews 18(4), 2.

Martens, M. (2009). Mixing it up: A recap of the USBBY/YALSA panel from ALA Annual in Chicago. United States Board on Books for Young People Newsletter 34(2), 10.