Libraries, Archives, Museums and Popular Culture Area of Southwest/Texas
Popular Culture Association & Southwest/Texas American Culture Association
2007 Conference Proposal
Leisure reading, listening, viewing and playing: Popular books, audio books,
videos and videogames in academic libraries by Jessica E. Moyer and Christy
Donaldson
This workshop will start out with a literature review and four case studies of
popular materials collections in academic libraries. The literature review will
provide an overview of the state of popular leisure materials in academic libraries
including current practices, methods for obtaining popular materials, and a
discussion of the popularity and differing viewpoints of such collections by
students and faculty. The four case studies will be from two medium-sized public
college libraries that have recently or are getting ready to add such collections,
one large public university library that has recently added a multimedia popular
materials collection after budget cuts forced the close of the separate Browsing
Room which consisted of books only, and a small community college that added a
popular books collection. We will also present the preliminary results of a survey
on preferred digital audio players and formats for audio books from a mediumsized public university library. We hope to encourage a lively discussion of the
role of leisure materials in academic libraries, types of materials academic
libraries should acquire and how they should go about acquiring, processing,
displaying/advertising and circulating such collections.
Jessica E. Moyer, Senior Assistant Librarian
Milne Library, State University of New York, College at Oneonta
Room 109 Reference Office Milne Library
108 Ravine Parkway, Oneonta, NY 13820
Email: jessicaemilymoyer@gmail.com Phone: 607 439 2453 Fax 607 436 3081
Christy Donaldson, Reference Librarian and Instruction Coordinator
The Libraries, Montana State University at Bozeman
P.O. Box 173320 Bozeman, MT 59717-3320
Email: cdonaldson@montana.edu Phone: 406 994 5334 Fax 406 994-2851