Publications

Peer-reviewed Articles
Luyt, Brendan. 2016. Narratives, shifting cultivation, and knowledge projects in the Philippines, 1901-1941: a cautionary tale. Library & Information History. (In press).
Luyt, Brendan & Karryl Sagun. 2016. Highbrow hipsters and lowbrow literati: a case study of Singaporean print culture in social media. Information Research. (In press).
Luyt, Brendan & Karry Sagun. 2016. Fulfilling the cultural without forsaking the commercial: university presses in the Philippines from the perspective of three directors. Journal of Scholarly Publishing 47 (3): 250-266. DOI:10.3138/jsp.47.3.250
Luyt, Brendan & Karryl Sagun. 2016. Let bookstores be bygones? Publishing Research Quarterly 32 (2): 139-147. DOI:10.1007/s12109-016-9447-6
Luyt, Brendan. 2016. Empire forestry and its failure in the Philippines. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 47 (1): 66-87. DOI: 10.1017/S0022463415000466
Yanru, Guo, Dion, Goh, Luyt, Brendan, Joanna, Sin, & Rebecca, Ang. 2015. The effectiveness and acceptance of an affective information literacy tutorial. Computers & Education 87: 368-384. DOI:10.1016/j.compedu.2015.07.015
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Journal Articles
Luyt, Brendan. 2015. Wikipedia, collective memory, and the Vietnam War. Journal of the Association for Information Science. (In press).
Luyt, Brendan & Adrian Heok. 2015. David and Goliath: tales of independent bookstores in Singapore. Publishing Research Quarterly 31 (2): 122-131. DOI: 10.1007/s12109-015-9402-y
Luyt, Brendan & Natalie Pang. 2015. For the record: document and record sensibilities of art conservators in the Philippines. Archives and Manuscripts 43 (2): 131-145. DOI: 10.1080/01576895.2014.990393
Luyt, Brendan. 2015. Debating reliable sources: writing the history of the Vietnam War on Wikipedia. Journal of Documentation 71 (3): 440-455. DOI:10.1108/JD-11-2013-0147
Chirabodee, Tejasen & Luyt, Brendan. 2014. The Wachirayan Library: library and club of the Siamese aristocracy, 1881-1905. Information & Culture 49 (3): 386-400. DOI: 10.1353/lac.2014.0015
Lin, H., & Luyt, Brendan. 2014. The National Library of Singapore: creating a sense of community. Journal of Documentation 70 (4): 658-675. DOI:10.1108/JD-11-2012-0148
Lin, H., Pang, N., & Luyt, Brendan. 2014. Is the library a third place for young people? Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 47 (2). DOI:10.1177/0961000614532303
Luyt, Brendan. 2014. The Makiling Echo: the multiple functions of a staff magazine in the American tropical empire of the twentieth century. Library & Information History 30 (1): 20-40. DOI: 10.1179/1758348913Z.00000000053
Schubert Foo, Shaheen Majid, Intan Azura Mokhtar, Xue Zhang, Yun-Ke Chang, Luyt, Brendan, Yin-Leng Theng. 2014. Information literacy skills of secondary school students in Singapore. Aslib Journal of Information Management 66 (1): 54-76. DOI:10.1108/AJIM-08-2012-0066
Luyt, Brendan. 2013. The long road to local library and information education in Singapore. Libri 63 (4): 339-344. DOI:10.1515/libri-2013-0026
Kusolpalin, Pattarin; Luyt, Brendan, Yasmin Lynda Munro and Sieu Pin Lim. 2013. Why do children in Singapore read? An exploratory study. Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science 18 (3): 1-12.
Luyt, Brendan. 2013. History on Wikipedia: in need of a NWICO (New World Information & Communication Order )? The case of Cambodia. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 64 (6): 1193-1202.DOI:10.1002/asi.22827
Shaheeen Majid, Schubert Foo, Xue Zhang, Intan Azura Mokhtar, Luyt, Brendan, Yunke Chang, and Ying-Leng Theng. 2013. Nurses’ information use and literature searching skills for evidence based practices. Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science 18 (1): 67-78. DOI: 10.3163/1536-5050.99.3.010
Luyt, Brendan. 2012. The inclusivity of Wikipedia and the drawing of expert boundaries: an examination of talk pages and reference lists. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 63 (9): 1868-1878. DOI:10.1002/asi.22671
Hui, Lin, Luyt, Brendan. 2012. The evolution of scientific journal articles in the periphery: a case study and analysis of the Raffles Bulletin of Zoology from 1928 to 2008. Journal of Information Science 38 (5): 407-422. DOI:10.1177/0165551512445158
Intan Azura Mokhtar, Shaheen Majid, Schubert Foo, Xue Zhang, Theng Yin-Leng, Luyt, Brendan, and Yunke Chang. 2012. Evidence-based practice and related information literacy competencies of nurses in Singapore: an exploratory case study. Health Informatics Journal 18 (1): 12-25. DOI: 10.1177/1460458211434753
Luyt, Brendan. 2012. The social role of the Raffles Library, Singapore, in the inter-war years. Journal of Documentation 68 (1): 134 – 143. DOI:10.1108/00220411211200365
Luyt, Brendan. 2012. Producing knowledge about Malaya: Readers, Contributors, Printers, Editors, and the Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society in the 1950s. Library & Information History, 28 (1): 41-57. DOI:10.1179/1758348911Z.0000000003
Luyt, Brendan, Seng Sheh Lee, Ng Yung Yong. 2011. Gender representations and stereotypes in Singaporean picture books: 1970 to 2008. Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science, 16 (3): 49 – 65. DOI:10.1080/09500789009541271
Majid, S., Foo, S., Luyt, Brendan., Zhang, X., Theng, Y. L. Chang, Y. K. and Mokhtar, I. A. 2011. Adopting evidence-based practice in clinical decision-making: perceptions, knowledge and barriers. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 99 (3): 229-236. DOI:10.3163/1536-5050.99.3.010
Foo, Schubert, Shaheen Majid, Intan Mokhtar, Xue Zhang, Luyt, Brendan, Yun-ke Chang, Yin-Leng Theng. 2011. Nurses’ perception of evidence-based practice in National University Hospital of Singapore. Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 42 (11): 522-28. DOI:10.3928/00220124-20110516-04
Luyt, Brendan. 2011. The nature of historical representation on Wikipedia: dominant or alternative historiography? Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62 (6): 1058-1065. DOI: 10.1002/asi.21531
Luyt Brendan, Yaw Huah Chow, Kiak Peng Ng, Jillian Lim. 2011. Public library reading clubs and Singapore’s elderly. Libri, 61: 205-210. DOI: 10.1515/libr.2011.017
Luyt, Brendan & Ho Swee Ann. Reading, the library, and the elderly: a Singapore case study. 2011. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 43 (4): 204-212. DOI: 10.1177/0961000611418813
Luyt, Brendan & Intan Mokhtar. 2010. The sigh of the information literate: an examination of the potential for oppression in information literacy. Information Research 15 (3). Available at: http://informationr.net/ir/15-3/colis7/colis711.html.
Luyt, Brendan. 2010. Collectors and collecting for the Raffles Museum, Singapore: 1920 to 1940. Library and Information History 26 (3): 183-195. DOI: 10.1179/175834810×12731358995235
Heok, Adrian and Luyt, Brendan. 2010. Learning and access: the Internet in Singapore’s public libraries. Journal of Documentation 66 (4): 475-490.DOI: 10.1108/00220411011052911
Luyt, Brendan & Daniel Tan. 2010. Improving Wikipedia’s credibility: references and citations in a sample of history articles. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 61 (4): 715-722. DOI: 10.1002/asi.21304
Luyt, Brendan, Yasmin Ally, Nur Hakim Low, Norah Binte Ismail. 2010. Librarian perceptions of Wikipedia. Libri 60 (1): 57-64. DOI: 10.1515/libr.2010.005
Mokhtar, I; Foo S.; Majid. S; Theng, Y; Luyt, B; Chang Y (2010). Proposing a 6+3 model for developing information literacy standards for schools: a case for Singapore. Education for Information, 27 (2-3), 81-101. Available at: http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ880550
Luyt, Brendan. 2010. Singaporean Social Science Journals: Creating a Regional Voice or Scrambling to Reach the Top? Asian Journal of Social Science 38 (2): 307-323. DOI: 10.1163/156853110×490953
Luyt, Brendan. 2010. Colonialism, Ethnicity, and Geopolitics in the Development of the Singapore National Library. Libraries and the Cultural Record 44 (4): 418-433. DOI: 10.1353/lac.0.0101
Lee, Chei Sian, Dion Goh, Alton Chua, & Luyt, Brendan. 2009. Choosing communication portfolios to accomplish tasks: the effects of individual differences. Computers and Education 53: 1167-1176. DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2009.05.024
Luyt, Brendan, Dion Goh, & Lee Chei Sian. 2009. Searching locally: a comparison of Yehey! and Google. Online Information Review 33 (3): 499-510. DOI: 10.1108/14684520910969925
Luyt, Brendan. 2009. The Importance of fiction to the Raffles Library in Singapore during the long nineteenth century. Library and Information History 25 (2): 117-131. DOI: 10.1179/175834909×417444
Goh, D.H., Lee, C.S., Chua, A., and Luyt, Brendan. (2009). Design and development of a query graph visualization system. Journal of Digital Information Management. Available at: http://www.dirf.org/jdim/v7n1a4.asp.
Luyt, Brendan, Chia Zuhaila Bte Chia Zainal, Olivia Victoria Petines Mayo, & Tan Siow Yun. 2008. Youth Perception and Usage of Wikipedia. Information Research 13 (4). Available at: http://informationr.net/ir/13-4/paper377.html.
Goh, D.H., Chua, A., Luyt, Brendan., and Lee, C.S. 2008. Knowledge access, creation and transfer in e-government portals. Online Information Review 32 (3): 348-369. DOI: 10.1108/14684520810889664
Goh, Dion, Luyt, Brendan, Alton Chua, See-Yong Yee, Kia Ngoh Poh, and How Yen Ng. 2008. Evaluating open-source portals. Journal of Librarianship & Information Science. 40 (2): 81-92. DOI: 10.1177/0961000608089344
Luyt, Brendan. 2008. The One Laptop per Child Project and the Negotiation of Technological Meaning. First Monday 13 (6). Available at: http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2144/1971.
Luyt, Brendan. 2008. Centres of calculation and unruly colonists: the colonial library in Singapore and its users, 1874-1900. Journal of Documentation 64 (3): 386-396. DOI: 10.1108/00220410810867597
Luyt, Brendan, Tay Chee Hsien Aaron, Lim Hai Thian, and Cheng Kian Hong. 2008. Improving Wikipedia’s accuracy: is edit age a solution? Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59 (2): 318-330. DOI: 10.1002/asi.20755
Luyt, Brendan and Alton Chua. 2007. A call to infuse biographies of Asia-Pacific LIS giants into the curriculum. Libri 57 (2): 69-75. DOI: 10.1515/libr.2007.69
Luyt, Brendan. 2007. The ALA, public libraries, and the Great Depression. Library History 23 (2): 85-96. DOI: 10.1179/174581607×205626
Luyt, Brendan. 2007. The hegemonic work of automated election technology in the Philippines. Journal of Contemporary Asia 37 (2): 139-165. DOI: 10.1080/00472330701253734
Khoo, Christopher and Luyt, Brendan, Caroline Ee, Jamila Osman, Hui-Hui Lim and Sally Yong. 2007. How users organize electronic files on their workstations in the office environment: a preliminary study of personal information organization behaviour. Information Research 12 (2). Available at: http://informationr.net/ir/12-2/infres122.html.
Luyt, Brendan. Internet access in libraries: a comparison of press coverage between Canada and Singapore. 2006. The International Information & Library Review 38 (4): 205-214. DOI: 10.1016/j.iilr.2006.08.003
Luyt, Brendan. 2006. Defining the digital divide: the role of e-Readiness indicators. Aslib Proceedings 58 (4): 276-291. DOI: 10.1108/00012530610687669
Luyt, Brendan. 2004. Who benefits from the digital divide? First Monday 9 (8). Available at: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_8/luyt/index.html.
Luyt, Brendan. 2001. Regulating readers: the social origins of the readers’ advisor in the United States. Library Quarterly 71 (4): 443-466. DOI: 10.1086/603315
Luyt, Brendan. 1996. Review of Deforestation in the postwar Philippines, by David Kummer; Power from the forest, by Marites Danguilan-Vitug; and Hope for the seeds, by Vincent Busch. Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 28 (3 & 4): 112-115. DOI: 10.1080/14672715.1996.10416230
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Book Chapter
Luyt, Brendan and Lee Chu Keong. 2007. The ethics of social information retrieval. In Dion Goh and Schubert Foo, eds., Social information retrieval systems: Emerging technologies and applications for searching the Web effectively. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-543-6.ch010
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Book Reviews
Luyt, Brendan. 2003. Ruling the root: Internet governance and the taming of cyberspace, by Milton Mueller. Library Quarterly 73 (3).
Luyt, Brendan. 2003. Digital divide: civic engagement, information poverty, and the Internet worldwide, by Pippa Norris. Social Science Computer Review 21 (1).
Luyt, Brendan. 2002. Information and communication technology in development, by Subhash Bhatnagar and Robert Schware (eds.). Journal of Contemporary Asia 32 (4).
Luyt, Brendan. 1997. Agents of apocalypse: epidemic disease in the colonial Philippines, by Ken De Bevoise. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 28 (1).DOI: 10.1017/S0022463400015496
Luyt, Brendan. 1996. Plundering paradise: the struggle for the environment in the Philippines, Robin Broad with John Cavanagh. Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 28 (1).DOI: 10.1080/14672715.1996.10416189
Luyt, Brendan. 1994. Linguistic imperialism, Robert Philipson. Journal of Contemporary Asia 24 (2).
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Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers
Luyt, Brendan. 2015. Reading cultures and the role of the library. Presented at: The 5th Annual Advancing Libraries, Archives and Museums (ALAM) Seminar-Workshop, April 13.
Luyt, Brendan. 2015. The political economy of representation on Wikipedia: the case of Cambodian history. Presented at: Asia-Pacific Library and Information Science Education & Practice, Manila, Philippines, October 28. Available at: http://www.a-liep.com/files/ALIEProceedings2015.pdf
Sagun, Karryl & Luyt, Brendan. 2015. The perils of print and the promise of technology: the case of Facebook and BooksActually. Presented at: Asia-Pacific Library and Information Science Education & Practice, Manila, Philippines, October 28. Available at: http://www.a-liep.com/files/ALIEProceedings2015.pdf
Luyt, Brendan. 2013. The “Makiling Echo”: the multiple functions of a staff magazine in the American tropical empire of the early twentieth century. Presented at: IFLA WLIC 2013, August 21, 2013. DOI: 10.1179/1758348913z.00000000053
Luyt, Brendan. 2011. Wikipedia and historiography: the case of Singapore and the Philippines compared. Presentation at: Canadian Association for Information Science Annual Conference, June 1 – 6, 2011, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.
Luyt, Brendan. 2011. Book collections, large and small: Australia, Singapore and more (panel presenter). Presentation at: The Long Twentieth Century SHARP Brisbane conference, 28-30 April 2011, Brisbane, Australia.
Luyt, Brendan. 2010. Reading in Singapore: the case of the 1950s and 1960s. Presentation at: SHARP 2010, August18, Helsinki, Finland.
Luyt, Brendan. 2010. Oppression and Information Literacy. Presentation at: COLIS 2010, June 23, London, UK.
Luyt, Brendan. 2009. The OLPC and its networks of technological meaning. Presentation at: Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, October 31, Washington D.C.
Luyt, Brendan. 2009. The Socio-economic context of journal impact factors. Presentation at: Mapping the 21st Century Information Landscape, Canadian Association for Information Science Annual Conference, May 30, Ottawa, Canada.
Luyt, Brendan, Ng Peck Suan & Wong Tsun-Wei Linus. 2009. What motivates Singaporean Wikipedians. Presentation at: Asia-Pacific Library and Information Science Education & Practice, March 7, Tsukuba, Japan.
Heok, Adrian, Luyt, Brendan. 2009. Perceptions of Education, Learning and Access: Public Libraries and the Internet in Singapore. Presentation at: Asia-Pacific Library and Information Science Education & Practice, March 7, Tsukuba, Japan.
Luyt, Brendan, Chia Zuhaila Bte Chia Zainal, Olivia Victoria Petines Mayo & Tan Siow Yun. 2008. Youth perception and usage of Wikipedia. Presentation at: Information Seeking in Context, September 19, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Goh, D.H., Chua, A., Lee, C.S., Luyt, B. 2008. Query Graph Visualizer: A visual collaborative querying system. Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies, (August 4-6, Ostrava, Czech Republic), 78-83.
Luyt, Brendan, Wee Tin Kwek, Ju Wei Sim, and Peng York. 2007. Evaluating the Comprehensiveness of Wikipedia: the Case of Biochemistry. In Dion Goh et al. (eds.) ICADL 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4822, pp. 512-513.
Luyt, Brendan. 2007. Social forces and Singapore’s public library system in the 1950s and 1960s. Presentation at: Library Research Seminar IV: the Library in its Socio-cultural Context, October 11, London, Canada.
Luyt, Brendan. 2007. Newspaper coverage of library Internet access: Singapore and Toronto compared. Presentation at the International Conference on Libraries, Information, and Society: Building an Information Society for All, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 26.
Luyt, Brendan. 2006. Imagining the user in the Raffles Library & Museum, Singapore. Presentation at the World Library and Information Congress, Seoul, South Korea, August 21.
Luyt, Brendan, Alton Chua. 2006. In search of giants: fostering leadership education in LIS. Presentation at the Asia-Pacific Conference on Library & Information Education & Practice, Singapore, April 5.
Luyt, Brendan. 2004. Empowering users: cultures and conflicts from social informatics perspectives. Panel Presentation at the ASIST Annual Meeting, November 14.
Luyt, Brendan. 2004. Deconstructing Google: a critical analysis of a commercial search engine. Panel Presentation at the ALISE Annual Conference, January 7.
Luyt, Brendan. 2004. The information society as a political project. Poster Presentation at the ALISE Annual Conference, January 7.
Luyt, Brendan. 2002. Development and the digital divide. Presentation at Connections 2001 at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, May 12.
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Invited Presentations
Luyt, Brendan. 2009. Imagining the readers of the Raffles Library, Singapore. Presentation made at the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Hawaii, United States, October 26.
Luyt, Brendan. 2009. Reading and the Chinese elderly in Singapore. Presentation made at the Second Taiwan-Singapore-Thailand LIS Research Workshop, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand, November 20.
Luyt, Brendan. 2008. The user in the nineteenth century Raffles Library of Singapore. Presentation made at the Department of Cultural Studies, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, September 11.
Luyt, Brendan. 2008. The motivations of Singaporean Wikipedians. Presentation made at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, Boras, Sweden, September 8.
Luyt, Brendan. 2008. Academic journal cultures in Asia. Presentation made at the First Taiwan-Singapore-Thailand LIS Research Workshop, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, September 1.
Luyt, Brendan. 2003. Imagining information technology in the South: a case study of the Philippines. Presentation made at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, Boras, Sweden, April 28.
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