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 ;McDaniel College. : "The Nora Roberts American Romance Collection, established in 2011 and housed in Hoover Library at McDaniel College [...] contains the complete works of Nora Roberts / J. D. Robb, RITA Award winning titles of American Romance, and selected works of other American Romance authors recommended by expert and scholar Dr. Pamela Regis". [https://lib.hoover.mcdaniel.edu/arc]
-;University of Melbourne. : "The Romance Fiction Collection is a comprehensive collection of paper-back fiction by Australian and New Zealand - as well as British and American - romance novelists published from the 1960s up until the present by publishers such as Mills and Boon, Silhouette and the Women’s Weekly Library." [http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/special/collections/australiana/romance.html]
+;University of Melbourne. : "The Romance Fiction Collection is a comprehensive collection of paper-back fiction by Australian and New Zealand - as well as British and American - romance novelists published from the 1960s up until the present by publishers such as Mills and Boon, Silhouette and the Women’s Weekly Library." [https://library.unimelb.edu.au/collections/special-collections/rare-books/australiana/romance]
 ;Michigan State University. : The Romance Fiction collection has at "its core [...] a group of several thousand Harlequin Romances, [but] other popular romance novelists such as Barbara Cartland are also included." [http://specialcollections.lib.msu.edu/html/materials/collections/nyepop_coll.jsp]

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 "The [http://iaspr.org/journal/ Journal of Popular Romance Studies] (JPRS) is a peer-reviewed on-line journal presenting scholarship on representations of romantic love in popular media, now and in the past, from anywhere in the world. We welcome theoretical and empirical contributions from all relevant disciplines, including Art, Communications, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Education, English, Film Studies, History, LGBTQ Studies, Marketing, Philosophy, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sociology, Women’s and Gender Studies, as well as interdisciplinary approaches."
-The "[http://popularromanceproject.org/category/talking-about-romance/ talking about romance]" section of the Popular Romance Project's website hosts articles written by academics about a variety of topics related to popular romance. The Project was linked to a documentary, ''Love Between the Covers'', by Laurie Kahn and a conference at the Library of Congress. Details of video excerpts of both of those can be found [http://teachmetonight.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/new-pages-and-videos-on-love-and.html here].
+The Popular Romance Project is no longer online but it [https://web.archive.org/web/20171001104511/http://popularromanceproject.org/ was archived at the Internet Archive]. It includes articles written by academics about a variety of topics related to popular romance. The Project was linked to a documentary, ''Love Between the Covers'', by Laurie Kahn and a conference at the Library of Congress. Details of video excerpts of both of those can be found [http://teachmetonight.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/new-pages-and-videos-on-love-and.html here].
 [http://condor.depaul.edu/~english/pedagogy/romance/index.html Resources for Teaching Popular Romance Fiction]

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	;Loyola University. : The Monroe library holds a "collection from Lorena Dureau, opera singer, romance novelist, psychic, & doll designer"[https://twitter.com/MonroeLibLoyno/status/915578651147632640].[More details about Lorena Dureau can be found [http://library.loyno.edu/blog/?p=6329 here].]		;Loyola University. : The Monroe library holds a "collection from Lorena Dureau, opera singer, romance novelist, psychic, & doll designer"[https://twitter.com/MonroeLibLoyno/status/915578651147632640].[More details about Lorena Dureau can be found [http://library.loyno.edu/blog/?p=6329 here].]
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		+	;McDaniel College. : "The Nora Roberts American Romance Collection, established in 2011 and housed in Hoover Library at McDaniel College [...] contains the complete works of Nora Roberts / J. D. Robb, RITA Award winning titles of American Romance, and selected works of other American Romance authors recommended by expert and scholar Dr. Pamela Regis". [https://lib.hoover.mcdaniel.edu/arc]

	;University of Melbourne. : "The Romance Fiction Collection is a comprehensive collection of paper-back fiction by Australian and New Zealand - as well as British and American - romance novelists published from the 1960s up until the present by publishers such as Mills and Boon, Silhouette and the Women’s Weekly Library." [http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/special/collections/australiana/romance.html]		;University of Melbourne. : "The Romance Fiction Collection is a comprehensive collection of paper-back fiction by Australian and New Zealand - as well as British and American - romance novelists published from the 1960s up until the present by publishers such as Mills and Boon, Silhouette and the Women’s Weekly Library." [http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/special/collections/australiana/romance.html]

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 ;National Library of Australia. : The National Library of Australia (NLA) has extensive collections of romance novels published and distributed in Australia, principally received under the legal deposit provisions (s201) of the Copyright Act, 1968." [http://www.nla.gov.au/collect/acquisitions.html]. Individual catalogue records for pre-1990 romance novels published by Mills & Boon (over 12,000 titles), Harlequin (over 6000 titles) and Silhouette (over 500 titles) can be located via the [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/ NLA catalogue].  From January 1990 NLA ceased to catalogue romance novels individually, except for Australian romance authors; however, collective records for post-1990 titles can be located at the following locations: [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1390551 Mills & Boon], [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1741526 Silhouette], and [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1768798 Harlequin].  In addition to English language holdings, the NLA holds collections of foreign language romance novels by Australian authors [[Emma Darcy]][http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2340549] (the Australian husband-wife writing team of Wendy Brennan and Frank Brennan), [[Miranda Lee]][http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2209425] and [[Valerie Parv]][http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3031533].  The NLA also holds a small, but notable collection of romance comics which can be searched via subject headings [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=subject:%22Romance%20comic%20books,%20strips,%20etc.%20-%20Australia%20-%20Periodicals.%22&iknowwhatimean=1 ‘Romance comic books, strips, etc. - Australia – Periodicals’] and [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=subject:%22Romance%20comic%20books,%20strips,%20etc.%20-%20United%20States.%22&iknowwhatimean=1 ‘Romance comic books, strips, etc. - United States’]. Original materials held include the [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3645449 personal papers] and [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2163428 oral history recording] of Australian romance writer Lee Pattinson, and [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn618223 personal papers] of G. C. (Gordon Clive) Bleeck.
-;Bowling Green State University. : "The Browne Popular Culture Library holds a wide range of romance materials from novels to valentines. The collection includes more than 10,000 volumes of category romance series from publishers such as Harlequin, Silhouette, Loveswept, Candlelight, Ecstasy, and others. The holdings also include a sizable collection of mass market novels, including Georgian, regency, gothic, contemporary, and historicals. [...] In addition, the Library has manuscript collections containing correspondence, fan mail, literary manuscripts, and galley sheets from many prominent romance writers, includings Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Cathie Linz, and April Kihlstrom." [http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page39129.html Broken link] The Browne Library also holds "RWA’s organizational archives documenting its founding 15 years ago and following its growth into the world’s largest non-profit genre organization, specializing in romance fiction." [http://blogs.bgsu.edu/pclnews/?p=12 Broken link] "In December 2017, we received the Frank Kalan Romance Cover Art Collection, more than 100 original oil paintings that Mr. Kalan produced for Harlequin covers. In addition to the artwork, this collection includes paperwork related to each, reference photographs, and cover mockups. For many of these artworks we have also collected the published novel to give researchers a unique opportunity to explore the production process." [https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl/romance.html]
+;Bowling Green State University. : "The Browne Popular Culture Library holds a wide range of romance materials from novels to valentines. The collection includes more than 10,000 volumes of category romance series from publishers such as Harlequin, Silhouette, Loveswept, Candlelight, Ecstasy, and others. The holdings also include a sizable collection of mass market novels, including Georgian, regency, gothic, contemporary, and historicals. [...] In addition, the Library has manuscript collections containing correspondence, fan mail, literary manuscripts, and galley sheets from many prominent romance writers, includings Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Cathie Linz, and April Kihlstrom." [http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/pcl/page39129.html Broken link] The Browne Library also holds "RWA’s organizational archives documenting its founding 15 years ago and following its growth into the world’s largest non-profit genre organization, specializing in romance fiction." [http://blogs.bgsu.edu/pclnews/?p=12 Broken link]. A description of the RWA archive and suggestions for possible research projects to which it could be helpful [http://jprstudies.org/2018/05/romance-fiction-in-the-archivesby-kecia-ali/ can be found here]. "In December 2017, we received the Frank Kalan Romance Cover Art Collection, more than 100 original oil paintings that Mr. Kalan produced for Harlequin covers. In addition to the artwork, this collection includes paperwork related to each, reference photographs, and cover mockups. For many of these artworks we have also collected the published novel to give researchers a unique opportunity to explore the production process." [https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl/romance.html]
 ;Brown University. : Brown University's "collections of genre fiction were augmented by a group of romance novels, including translations into many European languages, the work and gift of Barbara Keiler, class of 1976, and Patricia Coughlin" [http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/University_Library/exhibits/leaves/modern.html#pop.html]. The collection of "Romance Novels by Brown & Rhode Island Authors" also includes "the working papers of their authors." [http://128.148.7.229:591/romance/about.html]

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	;University of Iowa. : The university library holds "The papers of LeAnn Lemberger [which] date from 1982 to the present with additions being made each year. They are organized by publication date, with an alphabetical index. The vast majority of the collection consists of manuscript drafts of her various romance novels." Lemberger "writes using the name [[Leigh Michaels]], a combination of her own name and that of her husband Michael Lemberger. She now publishes an average of four new romances each year, making Leigh Michaels Harlequin's most-published American author." [http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/MSC/ToMsC650/MsC647/lembergerleann.htm] The library also houses material donated by romance author [[Dorothy Garlock]] and the collection "contains unpublished material by Garlock, as well as foreign editions of her works." [http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/MSC/ToMsC650/MsC607/MsC607_garlockdorothy.htm]		;University of Iowa. : The university library holds "The papers of LeAnn Lemberger [which] date from 1982 to the present with additions being made each year. They are organized by publication date, with an alphabetical index. The vast majority of the collection consists of manuscript drafts of her various romance novels." Lemberger "writes using the name [[Leigh Michaels]], a combination of her own name and that of her husband Michael Lemberger. She now publishes an average of four new romances each year, making Leigh Michaels Harlequin's most-published American author." [http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/MSC/ToMsC650/MsC647/lembergerleann.htm] The library also houses material donated by romance author [[Dorothy Garlock]] and the collection "contains unpublished material by Garlock, as well as foreign editions of her works." [http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/MSC/ToMsC650/MsC607/MsC607_garlockdorothy.htm]
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		+	;University of Liverpool. : The library has a David and Betty Beaty Archive, which holds, among other things, "correspondence between David and Betty Beaty and several publishers, friends, and others, mainly concerning their respective publications, dated between 1939 and 1998" and "7 boxes containing full or partial autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of Betty Beaty's books, as follows: 'The colours of the night', 'The trysting tower', 'Fatal union', 'Love and the Kentish maid', 'Wheel fortune', 'The path of the moonfish', 'The shadow of the peak', 'The Atlantic sky', and 'Flight into love'". [https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/8441]

	;Loyola University. : The Monroe library holds a "collection from Lorena Dureau, opera singer, romance novelist, psychic, & doll designer"[https://twitter.com/MonroeLibLoyno/status/915578651147632640].[More details about Lorena Dureau can be found [http://library.loyno.edu/blog/?p=6329 here].]		;Loyola University. : The Monroe library holds a "collection from Lorena Dureau, opera singer, romance novelist, psychic, & doll designer"[https://twitter.com/MonroeLibLoyno/status/915578651147632640].[More details about Lorena Dureau can be found [http://library.loyno.edu/blog/?p=6329 here].]

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 ;University of Iowa. : The university library holds "The papers of LeAnn Lemberger [which] date from 1982 to the present with additions being made each year. They are organized by publication date, with an alphabetical index. The vast majority of the collection consists of manuscript drafts of her various romance novels." Lemberger "writes using the name [[Leigh Michaels]], a combination of her own name and that of her husband Michael Lemberger. She now publishes an average of four new romances each year, making Leigh Michaels Harlequin's most-published American author." [http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/MSC/ToMsC650/MsC647/lembergerleann.htm] The library also houses material donated by romance author [[Dorothy Garlock]] and the collection "contains unpublished material by Garlock, as well as foreign editions of her works." [http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/MSC/ToMsC650/MsC607/MsC607_garlockdorothy.htm]
-;Loyola University. : the Monroe library holds a "collection from Lorena Dureau, opera singer, romance novelist, psychic, & doll designer"[https://twitter.com/MonroeLibLoyno/status/915578651147632640].[More details about Lorena Dureau can be found [http://library.loyno.edu/blog/?p=6329 here].]
+;Loyola University. : The Monroe library holds a "collection from Lorena Dureau, opera singer, romance novelist, psychic, & doll designer"[https://twitter.com/MonroeLibLoyno/status/915578651147632640].[More details about Lorena Dureau can be found [http://library.loyno.edu/blog/?p=6329 here].]
 ;University of Melbourne. : "The Romance Fiction Collection is a comprehensive collection of paper-back fiction by Australian and New Zealand - as well as British and American - romance novelists published from the 1960s up until the present by publishers such as Mills and Boon, Silhouette and the Women’s Weekly Library." [http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/special/collections/australiana/romance.html]

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	;University of Iowa. : The university library holds "The papers of LeAnn Lemberger [which] date from 1982 to the present with additions being made each year. They are organized by publication date, with an alphabetical index. The vast majority of the collection consists of manuscript drafts of her various romance novels." Lemberger "writes using the name [[Leigh Michaels]], a combination of her own name and that of her husband Michael Lemberger. She now publishes an average of four new romances each year, making Leigh Michaels Harlequin's most-published American author." [http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/MSC/ToMsC650/MsC647/lembergerleann.htm] The library also houses material donated by romance author [[Dorothy Garlock]] and the collection "contains unpublished material by Garlock, as well as foreign editions of her works." [http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/MSC/ToMsC650/MsC607/MsC607_garlockdorothy.htm]		;University of Iowa. : The university library holds "The papers of LeAnn Lemberger [which] date from 1982 to the present with additions being made each year. They are organized by publication date, with an alphabetical index. The vast majority of the collection consists of manuscript drafts of her various romance novels." Lemberger "writes using the name [[Leigh Michaels]], a combination of her own name and that of her husband Michael Lemberger. She now publishes an average of four new romances each year, making Leigh Michaels Harlequin's most-published American author." [http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/MSC/ToMsC650/MsC647/lembergerleann.htm] The library also houses material donated by romance author [[Dorothy Garlock]] and the collection "contains unpublished material by Garlock, as well as foreign editions of her works." [http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/MSC/ToMsC650/MsC607/MsC607_garlockdorothy.htm]
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		+	;Loyola University. : the Monroe library holds a "collection from Lorena Dureau, opera singer, romance novelist, psychic, & doll designer"[https://twitter.com/MonroeLibLoyno/status/915578651147632640].[More details about Lorena Dureau can be found [http://library.loyno.edu/blog/?p=6329 here].]

	;University of Melbourne. : "The Romance Fiction Collection is a comprehensive collection of paper-back fiction by Australian and New Zealand - as well as British and American - romance novelists published from the 1960s up until the present by publishers such as Mills and Boon, Silhouette and the Women’s Weekly Library." [http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/special/collections/australiana/romance.html]		;University of Melbourne. : "The Romance Fiction Collection is a comprehensive collection of paper-back fiction by Australian and New Zealand - as well as British and American - romance novelists published from the 1960s up until the present by publishers such as Mills and Boon, Silhouette and the Women’s Weekly Library." [http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/special/collections/australiana/romance.html]