libraries/librarians

gender

feminism

social/economic class

disability

work

Weidenburner, Kathleen

(1984) We’ll Take Romance! Library Journal 109.15:1727-1728

Topic

Moretto, Shirley

Weidenburner, Kathleen

(1984) We’ll Take Romance! Library Journal 109.15:1727-1728

Topic

Carmichael, Lynne Patricia

(1985) A romantic past : a study of historical romance as a form of recreational fiction in public libraries M.A. Library Studies, South Australian Institute of Technology

Topic

Sutton, Roger

(1985) Librarians and the Paperback Romance: Trying to Do the Right Thing School Library Journal 32.3:25-29

Topic

YA/teenage romance

sex/sexuality

Carmichael, Lynne

(1988) Romantic fiction: a neglected area of research Australasian public libraries and information services (APLIS) 1.2:123-129

Topic

romance scholarship

Owen, Mairead

(1990) Women's Reading of Popular Romantic Fiction: A Case Study in the Mass Media: A Key to the Ideology of Women PhD, University of Liverpool

Topic

(1990) "La lecture du roman sentimental dans les bibliothèques publiques: l’exemple de Dijon " Le roman sentimental: actes du colloque des 14-15-16 mars 1989 à la Faculté des lettres de Limoges, volume 1 317-3??

Topic

France

Chelton, Mary K.

(1991) Unrestricted Body Parts and Predictable Bliss: The Audience Appeal of Formula Romances Library Journal 116.12:44-49

Topic

sex/sexuality

fashion/clothing

Fialkoff, Francine

(1992) Romancing the Patron: Romance novels don't get equal review treatment Library Journal 117.21:118

Topic

McAleer, Joseph

(1992) Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain, 1914-1950 Oxford: Clarendon Press

Topic

romances in magazines and newspapers

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

social/economic class

Buchanan, Nancy L.

(1993) Selection Tools for Popular Romances The Acquisitions Librarian 4.8:99-113

Topic

(1995) Exploring the World of Romance Novels Public Libraries 34.3:144–151

Topic

Linz, Cathie

Bouricius, Ann

Byrnes, Carole

(1995) Exploring the World of Romance Novels Public Libraries 34.3:144–151

Topic

Mosley, Shelley

Havir, Julie

(1995) The Librarian as Effete Snob: Why Romance? Wilson Library Bulletin 69:

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(1995) The Librarian as Effete Snob: Why Romance? Wilson Library Bulletin 69:

Topic

(1995) Exploring the World of Romance Novels Public Libraries 34.3:144–151

Topic

Mosley, Shelley

Havir, Julie

(1995) The Librarian as Effete Snob: Why Romance? Wilson Library Bulletin 69:

Topic

Ginger Chambers

Tuñón, Johanna

(1995) A Fine Romance: How to Select Romances for Your Collection Wilson Library Bulletin 69.9:31-34

Topic

Tuñón, Johanna

(1995) An Appetite for Romance: How to Understand, Buy, Display, and Promote Romance Fiction Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory 19.4:471-475 DOI: 10.1016/0364-6408(95)00064-G

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Elliott, Margaret A.

(1996) The Librarian's Stereotyped Image in Romance Novels, 1980-1995: Has the Image Changed? Masters, Kent State University

Topic

work

Flesch, Juliet

(1996) A Labour of Love? Compiling a Bibliography of Twentieth Century Australian Romance Novels Australasian Public Libraries and Information Services 9.3-4:170-178

Topic

(1996) A Labour of Love? The Story Behind the Compilation of Love Brought to Book: A Bio-bibliography of 20th Century Australian Romance Novels Australian Academic & Research Libraries 27.3:182-190 DOI: 10.1080/00048623.1996.10754974

Topic

(1996) Romance Fiction and the Avon Ladies The Acquisitions Librarian 8.16:119-131 DOI: 10.1300/J101v08n16_12

Topic

Flesch, Juliet

(1997) Not just housewives and old maids Collection Building 16.3:119-124 DOI: 10.1108/01604959710172404

Topic

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Krentz, Jayne Ann

(1997) All the Right Reasons: Romance Fiction in the Public Library Public Libraries 36, May/June:162–166

Topic

Mussell, Kay

(1997) On-Line Romance Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:246-249

Topic

(1999) Romancing the YA Reader Voice of Youth Advocates 21.6:414-419

Topic

(1999) Romancing the YA Reader Voice of Youth Advocates 21.6:414-419

Topic

McAleer, Joseph

(1999) Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon Oxford: Oxford University Press

Topic

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Betty Beaty

Elizabeth Carfrae

Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest

Sophie Cole

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Iris Danbury

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

romances in magazines and newspapers

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

religion/spirituality

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Denise Robins

Sara Seale

Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

(1999) Romancing the YA Reader Voice of Youth Advocates 21.6:414-419

Topic

Parameswaran, Radhika

(1999) Western Romance Fiction as English-Language Media in Postcolonial India Journal of Communication 49.3:84-105 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.1999.tb02806.x

Topic

India

social/economic class

sex/sexuality

gender

Ramsdell, Kristin

(1999) Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre Englewood, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited

Topic

(2000) The Romance Readers' Advisory: The Librarian's Guide to Love in the Stacks Chicago: American Library Association

Topic

(2002) Getting Serious about Romance: Adult Series Romances for Teens Voice of Youth Advocates 25.2:87-93

Topic

Mosley, Shelley

(2002) Getting Serious about Romance: Adult Series Romances for Teens Voice of Youth Advocates 25.2:87-93

Topic

Scott, Alison M.

(2002) "Romance in the Stacks; or, Popular Romance Fiction Imperiled " Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America 213-224

Topic

(2004) Perceptions of Romance Readers: An Analysis of Missouri Librarians Paper presented at Library Research Seminar III, Kansas City, MO. :

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Bryson, Mary

(2004) Public Library Services to the Romance Reader: An Online Survey of Romance Readers Masters in Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topic

Carpan, Carolyn

(2004) Rocked by Romance: A Guide to Teen Romance Fiction Westport, Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited

Topic

(2004) Perceptions of Romance Readers: An Analysis of Missouri Librarians Paper presented at Library Research Seminar III, Kansas City, MO. :

Topic

Funderburk, Amy

(2004) Romance collections in North Carolina public libraries: Are all genres treated equally? Masters, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topic

(2004) Perceptions of Romance Readers: An Analysis of Missouri Librarians Paper presented at Library Research Seminar III, Kansas City, MO. :

Topic

Linz, Cathie

(2005) Romancing Your Readers: How Public Libraries Can Become More Romance Reader Friendly Public Libraries 44.1:43–48

Topic

(2005) Romancing Your Readers: How Public Libraries Can Become More Romance Reader Friendly Public Libraries 44.1:43–48

Topic

(2005) Reading Between the Lines: Librarians as Authors of Fiction Libres: Library and Information Science Research e-journal 15.1:

Topic

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

(2006) Relations Between Librarians and Romance Readers: A Missouri Survey Public Libraries 45.4:54-64

Topic

(2006) Relations Between Librarians and Romance Readers: A Missouri Survey Public Libraries 45.4:54-64

Topic

(2006) Relations Between Librarians and Romance Readers: A Missouri Survey Public Libraries 45.4:54-64

Topic

(2007) Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101 Reference & User Services Quarterly 47.2:120-126

Topic

(2007) Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101 Reference & User Services Quarterly 47.2:120-126

Topic

(2007) Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101 Reference & User Services Quarterly 47.2:120-126

Topic

(2007) Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101 Reference & User Services Quarterly 47.2:120-126

Topic

(2007) Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101 Reference & User Services Quarterly 47.2:120-126

Topic

(2008) Romance novels in American public libraries: A study of collection development practices Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services 32.2:59-67 DOI: 10.1016/j.lcats.2008.08.014

Topic

Velasquez, Diane L.

(2008) “The Red Dot District”: Uncommon Ground in Reader Advisory Education and Professional Practice Educational Media and Technology Yearbook 33:105–111

Topic

(2008) Romance novels in American public libraries: A study of collection development practices Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services 32.2:59-67 DOI: 10.1016/j.lcats.2008.08.014

Topic

Velasquez, Diane L.

(2008) “The Red Dot District”: Uncommon Ground in Reader Advisory Education and Professional Practice Educational Media and Technology Yearbook 33:105–111

Topic

(2008) Romance novels in American public libraries: A study of collection development practices Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services 32.2:59-67 DOI: 10.1016/j.lcats.2008.08.014

Topic

(2008) Romance novels in American public libraries: A study of collection development practices Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services 32.2:59-67 DOI: 10.1016/j.lcats.2008.08.014

Topic

Velasquez, Diane L.

(2008) “The Red Dot District”: Uncommon Ground in Reader Advisory Education and Professional Practice Educational Media and Technology Yearbook 33:105–111

Topic

Ross, Catherine Sheldrick

pornography

(2009) Reader on Top: Public Libraries, Pleasure Reading, and Models of Reading Library Trends 57.4:632-656 DOI: 10.1353/lib.0.0059

Topic

(2010) Promoting Romance Novels in American Public Libraries Public Libraries 49.4:41-48

Topic

(2010) Promoting Romance Novels in American Public Libraries Public Libraries 49.4:41-48

Topic

Thompson, Jennifer K.

(2010) Romance in the Stacks: The Prevalence of Romance Fiction in Academic Libraries M.S. in Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topic

(2010) Promoting Romance Novels in American Public Libraries Public Libraries 49.4:41-48

Topic

Goldman, Crystal

(2012) Love in the Stacks: Popular Romance Collection Development in Academic Libraries Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.1:

Topic

(2012) Scholarship-In-Practice: The Romance Reader and the Public Library Australian Library Journal 61.4:298-306 DOI: 10.1080/00049670.2012.10739063

Topic

Harris, Marlene

(2013) A new breed of romance: romance authors who find themselves publishing via both traditional contracts and the new world of the self-published are living a hybrid life Library Journal 138.17:49-52

Topic

(2013) Les mauvais genres en bibliothèques publiques: quelle place pour le roman sentimental paralittéraire? Masters, Enssib, Université de Lyon

Topic

Graves, Joanne

(2014) Beyond Valentine's Day: The romance novel in the evolving world of publishing :

Topic

New Zealand

Bennett-Kapusniak, Renee

McCleer, Adriana

(2015) Love in the Digital Library: A Search for Racial Heterogeneity in E-Books Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

Topic

African American romance

Chelton, Mary K.

(2015) Readers' Advisory: There Seem to be More SEALs in Romance Fiction than in the US Navy, and if so, Why Does it Matter? Reference & User Services Quarterly 55.1:21-24 DOI: 10.5860/rusq.55n1.21

Topic

(2015) Special Issue: Romancing the Library (Editor’s Introduction) Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

Topic

Bennett-Kapusniak, Renee

McCleer, Adriana

(2015) Love in the Digital Library: A Search for Racial Heterogeneity in E-Books Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

Topic

African American romance

Sheehan, Sarah E.

Stevens, Jen

(2015) Creating a Popular Romance Collection in an Academic Library Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

Topic

Sheehan, Sarah E.

Stevens, Jen

(2015) Creating a Popular Romance Collection in an Academic Library Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

Topic

(2015) A Matter of Meta: Category Romance Fiction and the Interplay of Paratext and Library Metadata Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

Topic

Washington, AlTonya

(2015) "An Indie Author in a Library World " Self-Publishing and Collection Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries 139-147

Topic

(2015) A Part of Our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library Oxford: Oxford University Press

Topic

Allen, Amanda K.

(2016) “Dear Miss Daly”: 1940s Fan Letters to Maureen Daly and the Age-Grading and Gendering of Seventeenth Summer Children's Literature Association Quarterly 41.1:24-40 DOI: 10.1353/chq.2016.0001

Topic

(2016) Romance Writers’ Use of Archives Archivaria, the Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists 81:45-73

Topic

authors

Sherman, Jen

(2016) Reading Infrastructures in the Contemporary City: A Study of Three Public Libraries in Sydney PhD, University of Western Sydney

Topic

Ramsdell, Kristin

(2018) Encyclopedia of Romance Fiction Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood

Topic

science fiction/futuristic romance

Elinor Glyn

Margaret Mitchell

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Georgette Heyer

E. M. Hull

romance scholarship

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Samuel Richardson

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Gerlitz, Laura Michelle

(2019) Judging a Book By Its Cover: Bringing the Digital Humanities into Reader’s Advisory MA thesis, University of Alberta

Topic

Jarc, Klara

(2019) Ljubezenski roman v Sloveniji: knjižnična izposoja, bralci in produkcija , Univerza v Ljubljani

Topic

(2019) Metatextual Conversations: The Exclusion/Inclusion of Genre Fiction in Public Libraries and Social Media Book Groups Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association 68.3:254-267 DOI: 10.1080/24750158.2019.1654741

Topic

Jansen, Annie

(2020) Rethinking romance: An argument for adding the genre to the popular shelf The Journal of Academic Librarianship 46.2: DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2019.102100

Topic

(2020) On the problem of oppressive tastes in the public library Journal of Documentation 76.5:1091-1107 DOI: 10.1108/JD-01-2020-0002

Topic

(2020) The trouble with diverse books, part I: on the limits of conceptual analysis for political negotiation in Library & Information Science Journal of Documentation 76.6:1473-1491 DOI: 10.1108/JD-04-2020-0057

Topic

Roper, Holly N.

(2020) Representing the Romance: Diversity and Inclusion in the Romance Collections of Public Libraries M.S. in Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topic

disability

(2020) The selective tradition, the role of romance fiction donations, and public library practices in New South Wales, Australia Information Research 25.2:

Topic

(2020) What the Librarians Did: The Marginalisation of Romance Fiction Through the Practices of Public Librarianship PhD, University of Technology, Sydney

Topic

Hunter, Christyna M.

(2021) Cataloging Category Romance Fiction and Librarian and Patron Views on Romance Fiction in Public Libraries Current Studies in Librarianship 33.2:37-50

Topic

O'Mahony, Lauren

(2021) "Australian romance fiction " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 72-96 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-3

Topic