Collection and Curation: Volume 37 Issue 2

Guest editorial

Matthew Kelly

Exploring engagement with non-fiction collections: sociological perspectives

Sarah Knudson

The purpose of this paper is to build on limited understandings of how readers engage with non-fiction. Drawing from prior research and three recent case studies involving…

Characteristics, preferences and motivation of avid non-fiction readers

Margaret Kristin Merga, Saiyidi Mat Roni

This paper aims to provide insights into the characteristics of avid non-fiction book readers, exploring their typical demographic characteristics in relation to reading volume…

Reading in information behaviour and information literacy frameworks

Andrew Kenneth Shenton

This paper aims to explore the placement of the skill of reading in models devoted to information behaviour and information literacy process frameworks, with particular attention…

Non-fiction: an unnaturally naturalised concept for collection development

Matthew Kelly

This paper aims to problematise the basis of the use of non-fiction as an explanatory category in libraries that have mandates to deliver information to civil society users to…

Thinking in space

Laura Troiano

This paper is an exploration of the potential impact of narrative writing and creative non-fiction on historical scholarship. Framed by the question of where a manuscript would be…

Exhibition and preservation of non-fiction interactive and transmedia forms of expression

Arnau Gifreu-Castells

The constant updating and unstoppable advance of technologies, mixing of platforms, programs and codes and the new trends in funding, among other factors, have led us to a…

Recent philosophy and the fiction/non-fiction distinction

Derek Matravers

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of recent philosophical argument concerning the distinction between fiction and non-fiction.