Fifty-six semi-structured interviews were conducted in academic and public libraries across Canada in a study examining librarians’ experience of the teaching role. This paper focuses on participants’ revelations about the complex relationship between instructional librarians and teaching faculty. These relationships are examined through role theory and symbolic interactionism perspectives.Cinquante-six entrevues semi-structurées ont été menées dans les milieux des bibliothèques universitaires et publiques à l’échelle du Canada dans le cadre d’une étude visant à examiner l’expérience des bibliothécaires du rôle d’enseignement. Le présent article se concentre sur les révélations des participants au sujet de la relation complexe qui existe entre les bibliothécaires qui enseignent et les membres du corps professoral. Ces relations sont examinées par l’entremise de la théorie du rôle et des perspectives interactionnistes symboliques.

Purpose Fanfiction communities are actively engaged in creating cultural products. These large online communities have created and developed conventions that guide their solutions to gathering and presenting their work. The purpose of this paper is to investigate those conventions looking for evidence of information-related pursuits as serious leisure (SL) (Stebbins, 2007). Design/methodology/approach A diverse collection of fanfiction publishing platforms, blogs, and associated websites were subject to a qualitative inductive analysis (Lincoln and Guba, 1985). Platforms included both generalist sites like Archive of Our Own and more focused sites such as Teen Wolf Fic Finder. Findings Findings show significant information-related activities around collecting, wayfinding, and organizing. Collecting centers on platform policies focused on scope. Wayfinding relates to peer review as well as various reference-like work including reader’s advisory, reference questioning, and the creation of pathfinders. Organizing looks to the unique organizational schema created and used by the fanfiction communities. Research limitations/implications The authors explore implications of these activities in reference to the fanfiction community and the library and information science (LIS) discipline. The fanfiction community is shifting out of an ephemeral existence and into one of a more permanent digital heritage. Fanfiction is an SL pursuit that also has much to offer for consideration to the LIS discipline. Practical implications With respect to the wayfinding and organizing conventions of fanfiction communities, these activities provide librarianship with the opportunity to consider traditional activities in new ways. Originality/value Fanfiction is a little studied phenomenon in SL and in LIS. This research provides connections to both areas.

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to investigate the state of contemporary publishing, specifically the realms of fanfiction and self-publishing, for the ways in which readership is represented in conjunction with authors and publishers within the publication process. The structure of this process is then compared with Robert Darnton's communications circuit in order to propose a new model for the publication. As the publication process has a profound impact on the teaching and practice of collection development and reader studies in LIS, the discipline must be aware of any changes to the publication process. Design/methodology/approach -Using the case study approach, this research examines the cultural product, Fifty Shades of Grey (FSOG). Evidence included fanfiction and self-published manuscripts, reader reception of these texts, and a timeline of how the texts developed. Findings -Evidence gathered from the case study illustrate a variety of players and infrastructure present in the development and trajectory of FSOG. Throughout the entire development of the cultural product, readers were found to be active agents in the publication process promoting strong connections between reader and author. Findings focus on the themes of textual development and their publicity. Originality/value -Proposes a new model for the publication process that includes fanfiction and self-publishing.

Using the qualitative methods of interviewing and narrative gathering, this research examines ideas of socially interconnected reading practices and focuses on meanings of community in the lives of adult lesbian women who read for pleasure. It is argued that reading is a useful means to understanding ‘information’ and the everyday lives of readers.En utilisant les méthodes qualitatives de l’entrevue et de la collecte narrative, cette recherche examine les idées des pratiques de lecture socialement interconnectées et converge sur la signification de la communauté dans la vie des femmes lesbiennes adultes qui lisent pour leur loisir. On soutient que la lecture est un moyen utile pour comprendre « l’information » et la vie quotidienne des lecteurs. ***Student to CAIS/ACSI Award Winner***

In understanding pleasure reading in everyday life we often focus on the text as a primary tool of reading and other tools, such as books, which are instrumental objects, are overlooked. This report of qualitative research focuses on the book as a tool within reading experiences and how it furthers understandings of the self for the reader.En tentant de comprendre la lecture de loisir dans la vie quotidienne, nous considérons souvent le texte comme l’outil principal de lecture, alors que d’autres dispositifs, tels que les livres, qui sont des objets instrumentaux, sont souvent négligés. Ce rapport de recherche qualitative est axé sur le livre comme outil à l’intérieur des expériences de lecture et sur la manière avec laquelle celui-ci favorise la compréhension de la personnalité du lecteur.