Popular Fiction Collections in Academic and Public Libraries

Fleet, Connie Van

doi:10.1300/j101v15n29_07

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“…Other reasons expressed include limited budgets (Hsieh and Runner, 2005; Alsop, 2007; Odess‐Harnish, 2002), space constraints, lack of demand, and waning patron interest (Alsop, 2007; Odess‐Harnish, 2002). Librarians also offer concerns about maintaining a largely paperback, constantly shifting collection (Van Fleet, 2003). Van Fleet (2003, p. 69) even refers to a “widely held assumption that faculty and students have little time and less interest in reading for pleasure”.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Serving the whole person: popular materials in academic libraries

Hallyburton

Buchanan

Carstens

2011

Collection Building

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PurposeThis paper seeks to provide support and direction for academic libraries collecting popular materials.Design/methodology/approachThis paper offers a case study format supplemented by statistical and descriptive analyses.FindingsThe paper presents literature and case history‐based information on the debate surrounding popular materials collection in academic libraries. The case study provides concrete, cost‐effective steps for academic libraries to use in building popular materials collections.Practical implicationsThe authors make the case for support of popular materials collections through detailed evaluation of circulation records.Originality/valueThis paper offers a level of statistical analysis of circulation records unique to the library literature on popular materials collection. It also provides a distinctive case history of the evolution of a successful collection and includes easily adaptable steps.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Serving the whole person: popular materials in academic libraries

Hallyburton

Buchanan

Carstens

2011

Collection Building

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“…For the purposes of this article, popular reading collections can be equated to popular DVD collections. Just as “Popular literature is the textual representation of popular culture” (Van Fleet, 2003, p. 64), popular films are the visual representations of popular culture, and, therefore, both can be described as popular culture items, or primary sources. Popular culture items have historically been excluded from academic library collections because of their perceived lack of scholarly merit.…”

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“…Popular culture items have historically been excluded from academic library collections because of their perceived lack of scholarly merit. “Most librarians – and indeed, taxpayers and faculty – regard reading for pleasure or personal growth as secondary to information seeking” (Van Fleet, 2003, p. 69). In a 2002 study of leased popular reading collections, Odess‐Harnish (2002, p. 56) sums up the current situation in academic libraries:… this debate has become increasingly significant as popular culture studies courses have become a common and respectable part of many universities' curricula.…”

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“…Collections of popular culture items, such as the popular DVD collection, can contribute to the body of knowledge supporting interdisciplinary programs. Van Fleet (2003, p. 81) describes the value of popular fiction collections to the educational mission of the university: “Often under valued, reading popular fiction now has substantial support in interdisciplinary research which reveals the nature of the interaction between reader and text”. It is this interaction that aids in the creation of new ideas and knowledge, which Seeley Brown and Duguid (2000, p. 120) describe in The Social Life of Information : “knowledge is something we digest rather than merely hold.…”

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A popular DVD collection in an academic library

Dimmock

2007

New Library World

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PurposeThis paper was written to aid academic libraries that may be considering adding collections of popular culture items to their collections. The Multimedia Center at the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries partnered with students to establish a popular DVD collection in 2001. Changes in acquisitions, cataloging, processing, shelving, and access were required. A review of the current literature helps make a compelling story for why these items add value to the libraries' collections and how they contribute to the educational mission of the university.Design/methodology/approachChanges that were made to provide improved access to a high circulation collection are discussed. Current literature on popular culture collections in academic libraries, media literacy, and the unique creation of knowledge by the current generation of college students is used to provide a basis for supporting these incongruous collections.FindingsThe generation of students who have grown up with the internet use media for the creation of knowledge. The distinction between scholarly material and popular material may be a library construct and inhibit the creation of new texts.Practical implicationsAcademic libraries that are attempting to establish collections of popular culture items such as DVDs can examine the solutions that the Multimedia Center staff used to overcome barriers to access and circulation, including the philosophical barrier imposed by an institutional bias against popular culture items.Originality/valueThis paper is unique in that it not only examines the technical details needed to successfully integrate a high‐circulation, easily browsed DVD collection into an academic library setting, it also examines the reasons why these collections are essential to the educational mission of the modern university.

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“…It is frequently suggested that students who are seeking leisure reading can instead be directed to a public library (Dewan, 2010;Diers & Simpson, 2012;Elliott, 2007;Rathe & Blankenship, 2006). Despite these observations, there is ample evidence to support the provision of a leisure reading collection within an academic library (Bosman, Glover & Prince, 2008;Dewan, 2010;Elliott, 2007;Fleet, 2003;Gilbert & Fister, 2011;Hallyburton, Buchanan & Carstens, 2011;Hsieh & Runner, 2005;Rathe & Blankenship, 2006).…”

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At Your Leisure Pilot Project: Providing Leisure Reading Materials to a University Community through an Academic and Public Library Initiative

Hoogen

Fleuren-Hunter²

2017

Partnership

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Leisure reading collections were once as integral to academic libraries as they currently are to public libraries. This article examines the results of a partnership between an academic and a public library to provide access to leisure reading materials to a university community through a one-year pilot project. Data were collected using circulation statistics, gate counts, and comment cards in the form of book inserts. During the pilot, gate counts increased by 6%, and 91% of participants indicated that they would continue to use the collection often or sometimes. The pilot was officially adopted as a new service at the end of the one-year trial period. Auparavant, les collections de livres de détente faisaient partie intégrante des bibliothèques académiques tout comme elles font présentement partie des bibliothèques publiques. Cet article présente les résultats d’un partenariat entre une bibliothèque académique et une bibliothèque publique cherchant à donner accès à du matériel de lecture de détente à une communauté universitaire par le biais d’un projet pilote d’un an. Les données ont été recueillies en utilisant des statistiques de prêt, le nombre d’entrées et des commentaires reçus sur des formulaires insérés dans les livres. Durant le projet pilote, le nombre d’entrées a augmenté de 6% et 91% des participants ont indiqué qu’ils continueraient d’utiliser la collection souvent ou à l’occasion. Le projet a été adopté officiellement comme nouveau service suite au pilote d’un an.

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Popular Fiction Collections in Academic and Public Libraries

Cited by 18 publications

References 7 publications

Serving the whole person: popular materials in academic libraries

Serving the whole person: popular materials in academic libraries

A popular DVD collection in an academic library

At Your Leisure Pilot Project: Providing Leisure Reading Materials to a University Community through an Academic and Public Library Initiative

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