The iSchool at Illinois is pleased to announce the publication of Library Trends 74 (1), titled "Genres and Their Uses in Cultural Documentation: Exploring Generic Access to Creative Worlds." Pushing back against the notion of genres as "inferior" classifications due to their ambiguity, this issue instead explores how genre classifications facilitate access to creative works in libraries and beyond.
Pauline Rafferty, Philip Hider, and Deborah Lee served as guest editors for this issue, which is freely available under an open access publishing model.
The table of contents includes:
- "Introduction" by Pauline Rafferty, Philip Hider, and Deborah Lee
- "Genres as Shape: Forms, Norms, and Connoisseurship" by Andrew Dillon
- "Attributes of Genre: A Cross-Domain Analysis" by Philip Hider and Phillipa Barlow
- "Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms: The Future Is Faceted" by Amy Phillips and Dorie Kurtz
- "Testing Genre and Form Term Mapping between the Library of Congress Subject Headings and Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Automatic Metadata Enhancement" by Sarah Hovde, Sai Deng, Mingyan Li, Casey Mullin, and Laura Murff
- "From Decimal to Dynamic: A Systematic Review of Genrefication in School Libraries" by Kasey L. Garrison, Krystal Gagen-Spriggs, and Kay Oddone
- "Fiction Genre: From the Academy to the Library" by Pauline Rafferty
- "When Is It Genre? Complicating the Categorization of Fan-Generated Metadata" by Melissa Nelson and Julia Bullard
- "Webtoon Romance Reading and New Ways to Look at Genre Reading" by Hyerim Cho, Denice Adkins, Alicia K. Long, and Diogenes Da Silva Santos
- "Film Genre Prediction and Analysis Using Multimodal Embeddings from Large Models: The Case of Noir" by Paul Matthews and Kathrina Glitre
- "Genres, Forms, Types, and Somewhere in Between: Exploring the Category of 'Musical Genre' for Organizing Bibliographic Music Collections" by Deborah Lee
- "Genres of Digital Humanities Scholarship: Are We There Yet?" by Katrina Fenlon
Library Trends is an essential tool for professional librarians and educators alike. Each issue explores critical trends in professional librarianship and includes practical applications, thorough analyses, and literature reviews. The journal is published quarterly for the School of Information Sciences by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Subscriptions to current issues are available both online and in print. Back issues (1952 through two years prior to the current issue) are available online through IDEALS, the digital repository for scholarly works produced at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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