Published Conference Proceedings                                                   

  • Harada, V. H. (2009). Establishing communities of practice: A practice-based model of continuing education for school librarians and teachers. Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Conference on Library and Information Education and Practice, Kusuba, Japan, March 6-8, 2009. [Electronic]

  • Suthers, D., Yukawa, J., & Harada, V. (2006). Congruence and tension among activity systems of communities of practice in a tripartite partnership for systemic reform. In S. A. Barab, K. E. Hay & D. T. Hickey (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences 2006, Bloomington, IN,--June 27-July 1, 2006  (pp. 744-750). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

  • Joseph, S., Yukawa, J., Suthers, D., & Harada, V. (2006). Searching emergent vocabularies: Exploring methods to reduce cognitive load during web navigation and resource contribution. Proceedings of the 39th Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-39), January 4-7, 2005, Kauai, Hawai`i.

  • Suthers, D., Harada, V. H., Doane, W., Yukawa, J., Harris, B., & Lid, V.  (2004). “Technology-Supported Systemic Reform: An Initial Evaluation and Reassessment.” Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Santa Monica, CA – June 22-26, 2004 (pp. 537-544). Hingham, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

  • Harada, V. H. (2003). “Building Evidence-Based Practice Through Action Research.” In D. V. Loertscher & B. Woolls (Ed.), Evidence-based Practice and School Library Media Programs, Treasure Mountain Research Retreat #11, Oct. 22-23, Kansas City, MO (pp. 65-74). Salt Lake City, UT: Hi Willow Research & Publishing.

  • Harada, V. H. (2002). “From Instruction to Construction: Learning in the Information Age.” In D. V. Loertscher & B. Woolls (Eds.), Information Rich Environments: Blessing Or Curse? Papers of the Treasure Mountain Research Retreat #9, Brown County, IN, November 2001 (pp. 3-20). San Jose, CA: Hi Willow Research and Publishing.

  • Harada, V.H. (2001). “Building Understanding of the Information Search Process Through Student Journal Writing.” In P. Hughes and L. Selby (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth International Forum on Research in School Librarianship, July 9-12, 2001 (pp. 91-105). Auckland, New Zealand: International Association of School Librarianship.

  • Harada, V. H. (2000). “Creating Realities in Magical Worlds:  An Exploration of Laurence Yep’s Shimmer Series.” In S. Kosanke, T. H. Sammons, and C. Ward (Eds)., Proceedings of the Ninth Biennial Conference on Literature and Hawai’i’s Children, June 11-13, 1998 (pp. 63-69).  Honolulu, HI: Children’s Literature Hawai’i.

  • Harada, V. H. (1984). “The Children as Authors Project.” In I. Harris (Ed.), Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conference, International Association of School Librarianship, July 30-August 3, 1984, Honolulu, Hawaii (pp. 229-244). Seattle, WA: International Association of School Librarianship.