Research can take many forms, especially in a field as diverse as library studies. This panel will bring together several emerging scholars as they relate and compare their differing approaches to research. For some the subject area requires special considerations for research methods, for others the end goal brings into question what counts as research at all. It is our hope that this panel will illustrate the range of effort possible in our field and prove illuminating to our fellow scholars, both new and established.

50-100 words)The phenomenon surrounding Fifty Shades of Grey (FSOG) created a new and public conversation about erotica and erotic romance literature. Although the phenomenon surrounding FSOG has faded, the sub-genre of erotica/erotic romance is still of interest. Traditional and nontraditional LIS review sources were examined for erotica/erotic romance titles to determine characteristics of titles reviewed, trends seen in the reviews, and to uncover the uptake of reviewed materials in Canadian libraries. Findings show some distinct characteristics in titles along with an influence of FSOG in the reviews, and a mismatch between the review sources examined and an example of a public library's collection. Pecoskie, J. Hill, H. (2015). Changing models of publication: 50 Shades of grey and a revision of Darnton's model.