Courses on popular culture topics are being taught on thousands of campuses and many scholars are doing research in this area. Because of unfamiliarity wilh popular materials, many academic librarians have been slow to respond to the needs of students and scholars working in his relatively new field of study. This article discusses some of the problems associated with the collection of popular materials by academic libraries and offers some suggestions on how to address these problems. In addition, the article provides reasons why libraries should begin to systematically collect popular culture materials despite the difficulties sometimes associated with such collection development.

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