(via Melissa Wong, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Please join Library Trends on Wednesday, December 10, from 10:00 to 11:00 AM CDT, for a webinar on how genre classifications facilitate access to creative works in libraries and beyond! Featuring guest editors and authors from Library Trends 74 (1), “Genres and Their Uses in Cultural Documentation: Exploring Generic Access to Creative Worlds”, this webinar will include engaging presentations followed by a lively discussion.
Featured speakers:
- Pauline Rafferty and Deborah Lee, issue editors and discussion moderators
- Andrew Dillon, “Genres as Shape: Forms, Norms, and Connoisseurship”
- Denice Adkins, “Webtoon Romance Reading and New Ways to Look at Genre Reading”
- Melissa Nelson and Julia Bullard, “When Is It Genre? Complicating the Categorization of Fan-Generated Metadata”
Additional information and the link to register can be found here.
About Library Trends
Library Trends, a premier journal of the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is an essential tool for librarians and educators alike. Every issue explores critical trends in professional librarianship, and includes practical applications, thorough analyses, and literature reviews. Each issue brings readers in-depth, thoughtful articles, all exploring a specific topic of professional interest. Library Trends is published quarterly.