Non-fiction
Emerald Publishing Limited
Published on 13. March 2018
56 pages
978-1-78756-240-0 (ISBN)
Description
This special issue of Collection Building on the subject of non-fiction was motivated by a long-standing desire to understand how public libraries prioritise selection in a civil society context. The lack of discussion around fundamental conceptual modalities that underpin our representation of knowledge in these spaces has prompted this exploratory collection of papers. The contributors to this issue bring a diverse range of disciplinary viewpoints that include philosophy, sociology, history, communication, education and information science. The variety of perspectives we see here, it is hoped, will help to ensure that a start is made on bringing the complexity of what we ordinarily discuss, so easily and equanimously as non-fiction, into a richer, more diverse and problematised space.
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- C1_EM-CCJJ180010
- CC_37_2_Text_V03
- Guest editorial
- References
- Exploring engagement with non-fiction collections: sociological perspectives
- Introduction
- The "talking life" of non-fiction: developing critical perspectives from the social sciences
- Towards a critical, interpretive research programme
- Three case studies
- Empirical and theoretical starting points
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- Case study findings and implications for understandings of non-fiction
- Heterogeneity in reading modes and motives
- Non-fiction reading and collection building as forms of (limited) political protest
- Non-fiction reading as a supplement to - or problematic replacement for - social support
- Limitations and avenues for further research and collection development
- Conclusion
- References
- Characteristics, preferences and motivation of avid non-fiction readers
- Introduction
- Methodology
- Analysis: quantitative
- Analysis: qualitative
- Results
- Motivation and the avid non-fiction reader
- Knowledge
- Inspiration and self-improvement
- Enjoyment
- Relaxation and comfort
- Identity and habit
- Escape
- Interrelatedness
- Barriers faced by the avid non-fiction reader
- Time
- Book access
- Concentration
- Discussion
- References
- Reading in information behaviour and information literacy frameworks
- Introduction
- A widespread oversimplification
- From reading motivations to information needs
- Reading as an information-seeking strategy
- Emphasis on higher-order reading skills
- The librarian as a wider literacy instructor?
- "Hidden" reading
- Conclusions and implications
- References
- Non-fiction: an unnaturally naturalised concept for collection development
- Part 1
- On difference and ordinary life
- Difficulties representing knowledge and ordinary life
- What knowledge and whose knowledge should be represented?
- Dealing with totalisation through a renewal of reference and scrutabilty
- Indeterminacy, truth and worldview
- The history (and poetry) of experience
- Denotation and intentionality
- Conclusion
- References
- Part 2
- The philosophical problem of fictionality
- Dealing adequately with a theory of literary non-fiction
- The role of historicism in defining documentary knowledge
- The paradox of non-fiction when it functions as the set of all sets
- Ontic and epistemic factors affecting the construction of the non-fiction paradigm
- Conclusion
- References
- Thinking in space
- A tale of two stadiums
- Description
- Deduction
- Speculation
- References
- Exhibition and preservation of non-fiction interactive and transmedia forms of expression
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Theoretical framework
- 2.1 Defining digital preservation
- 2.2 Interactive and transmedia non-fiction area
- 2.3 Trends in digital genres and format preservation
- 2.4 Digital non-fiction works as complex ecosystems of preservation
- 3. Preserving non-fiction content: the case of meta-documentaries
- 4. Specific strategies to preserve interactive and transmedia non-fiction forms of expression
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Recent philosophy and the fiction/non-fiction distinction
- References
- Non-fiction: an unnaturally naturalised concept for collection development
- Part 1
- On difference and ordinary life
- Difficulties representing knowledge and ordinary life
- What knowledge and whose knowledge should be represented?
- Dealing with totalisation through a renewal of reference and scrutabilty
- Indeterminacy, truth and worldview
- The history (and poetry) of experience
- Denotation and intentionality
- Conclusion
- References
- Part 2
- The philosophical problem of fictionality
- Dealing adequately with a theory of literary non-fiction
- The role of historicism in defining documentary knowledge
- The paradox of non-fiction when it functions as the set of all sets
- Ontic and epistemic factors affecting the construction of the non-fiction paradigm
- Conclusion
- References
- Guest editorial
- References
- Non-fiction: an unnaturally naturalised concept for collection development
- Part 1
- On difference and ordinary life
- Difficulties representing knowledge and ordinary life
- What knowledge and whose knowledge should be represented?
- Dealing with totalisation through a renewal of reference and scrutabilty
- Indeterminacy, truth and worldview
- The history (and poetry) of experience
- Denotation and intentionality
- Conclusion
- References
- Part 2
- The philosophical problem of fictionality
- Dealing adequately with a theory of literary non-fiction
- The role of historicism in defining documentary knowledge
- The paradox of non-fiction when it functions as the set of all sets
- Ontic and epistemic factors affecting the construction of the non-fiction paradigm
- Conclusion
- References
