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Romance In The Margins
Exploring library metadata and how it can marginalise romance fiction
Vassiliki VerosDoctoral CandidateFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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“We need to consider every attachment, every value,
with our whole attention; for we do not know the future,
we can never be certain of what may enrich it”
Raymond Williams in Culture is Ordinary 1961
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Romance Fiction
A 'romance' is defined by the presence of two basic
elements: a love-story that is central to the story,
and an emotionally-satisfying and optimistic ending.
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Romance fiction
On being in a community of romance authors:
”But I love what I do, and I love the romance genre.
It’s a female-driven arm of capitalism. We are all small
business owners. We are all out there for women.”
Beverly Jenkins 2017
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Print and digital reading and romance readers
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68.8
18.2
2.9
0 10.2
2009
Mass market paperback Trade paperback
Hardcover Audio
Ebook
17.94
12.98
1.15
2.29
65.65
2017
Mass market paperback Trade paperback
Hardcover Audio
Ebook
Australian Romance Readers Survey: What book format do you purchase most frequently?
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Libraries can be regarded as sites for the production, dissemination and appropriation of cultural capital”
Anne Goulding, 2010
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Providing fiction for recreational reading is a core public library service
Readers’ Advisory services
Joyce Saricks (2009) defines readers’ advisory
as “patron-oriented library service for adult
fiction readers. A successful readers' advisory
service is one in which knowledgeable,
nonjudgmental staff help fiction readers with
their reading needs”
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Reader methods in accessing fiction:
1. Known Item search : Achieved through library
catalogue searches
2. Browsing for items: returned books shelf, new
book shelf, displays, exhibitions, pamphlets and
other ccollateral
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Metadata is “data about data” – Jane Greenberg, 2003
Accepted criteria for quality metadata is:
1. Accuracy
2. Consistency
3. Completeness
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Metadata
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Metadata
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Degrees of metadata
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Degrees of metadata
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OBFUSCATING METADATA
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OBFUSCATING DATA
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Obfuscating metadata
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Obfuscating metadata
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Metadata Enrichment
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Metadata Enrichment
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USEFUL COLLECTIONS
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“Why would you have a collection that you have no access to? The cost of adding them to the database must be far less than the staff time spent trying to find them, day after day, for patrons. Looking for uncatalogued material, which may or may not be on the shelf, is exceedingly frustrating for both staff and patrons and the collection becomes less useful.”
Saricks in Fiction Acquisition/Fiction Management: Education and Training (1995)
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LINKED DATA
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Public Lending Right (PLR) and Educational Lending
Right (ELR) are Australian Government cultural
programs which make payments to eligible Australian
creators and publishers in recognition that income is
lost through the free multiple use of their books in
public and educational lending libraries. PLR and ELR
also support the enrichment of Australian culture by
encouraging the growth and development of Australian
writing.
http://arts.gov.au/literature/lending_rights
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LINKED DATA
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Print and digital reading and romance readers
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33.4
19.6
25.2
21.8
2009
Never Sometimes Often Always
50.97
25.87
15.06
8.11
2017
Never Sometimes Often Always
Australian Romance Readers Survey: Have you borrowed books from your local library this year?
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Implications of obfuscated data:
Readers and library users:
1. A false record of the reading engagement of the community.
2. Avid readers not considering the library as a place for discovery.
Library staff:
1. Inability to locate materials
2. User engagement
3. Lack of professional adherence to international standards and protocols
Authors and creators:
1. Impact upon an author’s moral rights to their intellectual property
2. Impact upon author access to institutional payments.
3. The lack of cultural capital of predominately female creators from the institutional record.
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“Important information lives forever. It doesn’t depreciate. It
appreciates. It lives forever.” This is not only important in our
government data, but also in our collecting of stories that our
society engages in. Without rich metadata, from inception, from
receipt of an object, then that importance cannot be followed.
David Fricker in Leading Information Governance 2018
Thankyou