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- Title
A Matter of Meta: Category Romance Fiction and the Interplay of Paratext and Library Metadata.
- Authors
Veros, Vassiliki
- Abstract
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 selection of materials for library collections and the creation of metadata and metatexts to connect the cultural product to a potential user. By using Pierre Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital and Gerard Genette's notions of paratext, this article will explore romance fiction collections and the interplay between cultural institutions and the impacts to this interplay when there is an absence of metadata. Library practices such as acquisitions, cataloguing and readers' advisory are used so as to ultimately meet the needs of library users. However, if that information is kept to a minimal level, the library user is unaware that the materials they are seeking are available. In exploring basic catalogue records of paperback category romance fiction collections in Australian public libraries, this paper will illuminate the impacts that the lack of metadata has upon readers' advisory services, upon Public Lending Rights payments as well as marginalising romance novels and their creators thus rendering their cultural capital invisible.
- Subjects
ROMANCE language fiction; ROMANCE language literature; LIBRARY users; LIBRARY materials; CULTURAL capital
- Publication
Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 2015, Vol 5, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2159-4473
- Publication type
Article