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Building and Assessing a Leisure Horror Collection in an Academic Library

Abstract

Leisure collections in academic libraries may be difficult to justify as budgets stay flat or shrink and resource costs increase. While materials supporting curricular or research needs are of paramount importance in academic libraries, leisure collections have a place, too, particularly as universities look for opportunities to increase community and connectedness among students. This article will discuss the leisure collection at Western Carolina University’s Hunter Library and will focus on the author's efforts to build and assess a leisure horror subcollection.