Do popular reading materials belong in college and university libraries? Although some
librarians think not, others believe there are compelling reasons for including them. The …

The romance novel is the most popular and bestselling genre of fiction produced and
consumed in the world today. In North America alone, the romance industry generates more …

Selection policies are practical tools used by school librarians to guide them in their
collection development plans. This investigation into district-level selection policies …

Authors of romance fiction create vast economic capital but this does not necessarily lead to
cultural capital. Libraries are collectors and endorsers of cultural capital evident through the …

Questions about whether and how American libraries should collect, describe, and share
sexually explicit materials are a perennial source of discussion both within the profession …

This paper aims to integrate a library system so that it becomes intelligent. We use swarm
intelligence to develop friendly human-computer interface software for readers using a …

The relationship between popular romance–a frequently marginalized and disdained genre–
and the library and archival field has attracted varying degrees of attention. Yet the question …

This article begins to define the core collection of Popular Romance Studies, and discusses
the likelihood of academic libraries allocating monetary funds for collecting in this discipline …

Despite focusing on stories that end happily ever after, the romance genre and public
libraries have a difficult history. Many library's acquisition policies include the purchasing of …

The Western genre, that is frontier adventure stories set west of the Mississippi River, has
been enjoying a resurgence in popularity, yet there has been no substantive look at the …