Marilyn was lead author in 2013 on a chapter entitled “A Blended Instructional Design Approach to Accessible Cyberlearning” in Handbook of Design in Educational Technology (Routledge Publishers) with co-authors Drs. Jennifer Ellis and Derrick Cogburn. She was also first author of a chapter in The Creative Imperative: School Librarians and Teachers Cultivating Curiosity Together (Libraries Unlimited) entitled "Acting on Curiosity: What's changed, What Hasn't, and What Educators Can Do About It" (2013). Marilyn has authored several books including Motivational Design: The Secret to Producing Effective Children's Media in 2005. In 2010, she released the first e-book project of the Center for Digital Literacy entitled From the Creative Minds of 21st-Century Librarians. She is also the creator and author of the Curious Kids series of storybooks and guides for educators to use in stimulating curiosity for research and for introducing information skills to children in the primary grades. The series was published by Libraries Unlimited, a division of Greenwood Publishing. She also co-authored Turning Kids On To Research: The Power of Motivation and several other books with Dr. Ruth Small including Teaching for Inquiry: Engaging the Learner Within (Small, Arnone, Stripling, & Berger, 2012) from Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. Her CV provides additional detail on journal articles and other publications published through 2015.