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His postgraduate qualifications, including his PhD, are in Australian literature, and also he maintains his research interests and publishing activity in this field. He is Past-President of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature.

Paul’s research spans a number of areas. Within information and library studies he has been an active researcher in the field of collection management, with a particular emphasis on changes to national collecting policies and priorities and the effect these have on Australia’s research infrastructure.This has included research into the distribution of unique copies in the national research collection; the storage of legacy print materials;and the development of print repositories.

Paul has also conducted research related to personal information management, scholarly communication, and Australian research assessment methodologies, particularly in the humanities. Other areas of research and publishing activity have been continuing professional development for librarians and he has also been engaged with other Curtin information studies staff on a longitudinal study of graduate outcomes.

In addition he maintains research interests in Australian studies, with a focus on Australian fiction, and he continues to publish in this area. This also includes recent publishing in the area of travel writing, with a particualr interest in Australian popular narrative of European travel and pilgrimage.

Paul’s teaching area is information and library studies, with a focus on collection management, reference librarianship and digital libraries, and he has published widely in each of these areas.

Paul's supervision of postgraduate research students includes projects in both Library and Information Studies and Australian literature. He is currently supervising projects related to convergence in Australian memory institutions; the bibliography of the nineteenth century demy-octavo editions of the novels of Charles Dickens; and education and continuing professional development for academic librarians in Indonesia.

Paul is currently Head of the Department of Infomation Studies. He has previously served as Honours Coordinator and Postgraduate Coordinator for the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts.

• Australian Library and Information Association;
• Association for the Study of Australian Literature.

Books (Authored, Research)

• Genoni, P. 2004. Subverting the Empire: Explorers and Exploration in Australian Fiction. Altona, Victoria: Common Ground Publishing Pty Ltd.

Book Chapters (Authored, Research Quality)

• Genoni, P. 2010. Elvis down under: simulations of a US pop icon in Australian fiction. In Reading Across the Pacific: Australia – United States Intellectual Histories, eds Nicholas Birns and Robert Dixon, 177-193. Sydney: University of Sydney Press.
• Willson, M, Genoni, P, and Merrick, H. 2009. e-Research and Scholarly Community in the Humanities. In E-Research. Transformation in Scholarly Practice, 1st Edition, eds Nicholas W Jankowski, 91-108. London: Routledge.
• Genoni, P. 2009. The mythology of exploration: Australian explorers' journals. In Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader, eds Sarwal, Amit and Sarwal, Reema, 321-328. New Delhi: SSS Publications.
• Genoni, P. 2007. Gerald Murnane. In A Companion to Australian Literature since 1900, eds Nicholas Birns and Rebecca McNeer, 293-306. Rochester, New York: Camden House.
• Genoni, P. 2007. Current issues in library collecting. In Libraries in the Twenty-First Century: Charting Directions in Information Services, eds Stuart Ferguson, 123-144. Wagga Wagga, N.S.W: Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University.
• Genoni, P. 2006. Thea Astley's Failed Eden. In Thea Astley's Fictional Worlds, eds Susan Sheridan and Paul Genoni, 153-163. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Haddow, G, Genoni, P, and Ritchie, A. 2004. Why don't librarians use research?. In Evidence-based Practice for Information Professionals: A Handbook, eds Andrew Booth, Anne Brice, 49-60. London: Facet.
• Genoni, P. 2003. Ruth Park and Frank Hardy: Catholic realists. In Frank Hardy and the Literature of Commitment, eds Paul Adams and Christopher Lee, 237-246. Carlton North, Victoria: The Vulgar Press.
• Genoni, P. 2002. Ruth Park. In Australian Writers, 1915-1950, S. Samuels ed Edition, eds S Samuels, 275-285. United States of America: Gale.
• Partridge, J, and Genoni, P. 2000. Personal research information management and the research student. In Information Literacy: Advances in Programs and Research, 1st Edition, eds Christine Bruce and Phil Candy, 223-236. Wagga Wagga: Charles Sturt University Centre for Information Studies.

Refereed Articles (Scholarly Journals)

• Genoni, P. 2012. Storage of legacy print collections: the views of Australasian university librarians. Collection Management 37(1): 23-46.
• Genoni, P, and Wright, J. 2011. Australia's national research collection: overlap, uniqueness and distrbution. Australian Academic and Research Libraries 42(3): 162-178.
• Haddow, G, Genoni, P, and Bennett, D. 2011. FoR Codes pendulum: Publishing choices within Australian research assessment. Australian Universities Review 2: 88-98.
• Genoni, P. 2011. The pilgrim’s progress across time: medievalism and modernity on the road to Santiago’. Studies in Travel Writing 15(2): 157-175.
• Genoni, P, and Wright, J. 2010. Assessing the collective wealth of Australian research libraries: measuring overlap using WorldCat Collection Analysis. Australian Library Journal 59(4): 197-207.
• Genoni, P, and Al-Aufi, A. 2010. An investigation of digital scholarship and disciplinary culture in Oman. Library Hi-Tech 28(3): 414-432.
• maesaroh, I, and Genoni, P. 2010. An investigation of the continuing professional development practices of Indonesian academic libraries. Library Management 31(8/9): 621-634.
• Genoni, P, and Obeidat, O. 2010. Assessing the digital divide in a Jordanian academic library. Library Review 59(6): 384-400.
• Genoni, P, and Haddow, G. 2010. Citation analysis and peer ranking of Australian social science journals. Scientometrics 85(2): 471-487.
• Genoni, P, and Haddow, G. 2009. Australian education journals: quantitative and qualitative indicators. Australian Academic and Research Libraries 40(2): 88-104.
• Genoni, P, and Haddow, G. 2009. ERA and the ranking of Australian humanities journals. Australian Humanities Review 46.
• Genoni, P, and Hallam, G. 2009. Library technician course recognition: meeting the challenge of a distributed national education program. Australian Library Journal 58(3): 233-249.
• Varga, E, and Genoni, P. 2009. Assessing the benefits of a national print repository: an Australian overlap study. College and Research Libraries 70(6).
• Genoni, P. 2009. The global reception of post-national literary fiction: the case of Gerald Murnane. JASAL Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature. : 1-13.
• Genoni, P, and maesaroh, I. 2009. Education and continuing professional development for Indonesian academic librarians: a survey. Library Management 30(8/9): 524-538.
• Genoni, P. 2008. Current and Future Print Storage for Australian Academic Libraries: Results of a Survey. Library Collections, Acquisitions & Technical Services 32: 31-41.
• Genoni, P. 2007. Thea Astley makes somethinig out of nothing. Antipodes: a North American Journal of Australian Literature 21: 35-40.
• Genoni, P. 2007. Towards a National Print Repository for Australia: Wehre From and Where To?. Australian Academic and Research Libraries 38: 84-98.
• Genoni, P. 2007. Unbecoming Australians: Crisis and Community in the Australian Villa/ge Book. Australian Literary Studies 23: 213-229.
• Genoni, P, and Ritchie, A. 2007. Print v. electronic reference sources: implications of an Australian study. The Electronic Library 25: 440-452.
• Willson, M, Merrick, H, and Genoni, P. 2006. Scholarly communities, e-research literacy and the academic librarian. The Electronic Library 24(6): 734-746.
• Willson, M, Genoni, P, and Merrick, H. 2005. The use of the Internet to activate latent ties in scholarly communities. First Monday 10(12).
• Smith, K, and Genoni, P. 2005. Graduate employment outcomes for qualifying library and records management courses at Curtin University of Technology, 1998-2002. The Australian Library Journal 54: 336-352.
• Genoni, P. 2005. An assessment of Australian research library journal cancellations, 1990-2003. The Australian Library Journal. 54: 66-79.
• Genoni, P. 2004. Print serial cancellations in university libraries post 1990: what do the CAUL statistics reveal?. Australian Academic and Research Libraries 35(3): 177-192.
• Genoni, P, and Jones, M. 2004. Collection coherence and digital abundance: enhancing the effectiveness of document supply. Interlending & Document Supply 32(2): 109-116.
• Genoni, P. 2004. 'Art is the Windowpane': Novels of Australian Women and Modernism in Inter-war Europe. JASAL Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature. 3: 159-172.
• Genoni, P. 2004. Content in institutional repositories: a collection management issue. Library Management 25(6-7): 300-306.
• Genoni, P, and Cowan, R. 2003. Bibliographic control of Australian higher degree theses: the future role of the Australian digital theses program. Australian Academic and Research Libraries 34(2): 81-91.
• Genoni, P. 2003. 'Tampa' proof?: Australian fiction 2002-2003. Westerly 48: 159-174.
• Genoni, P. 2002. Three songs of Gippsland: Mick Thomas and the language of loss. Gippsland Heritage Journal 26: 48-52.
• Genoni, P. 2002. Why the distributed national collection won’t be coming to a library near you. Interlending & Document Supply 30(3): 142-144.
• Genoni, P, and Ritchie, A. 2002. Group mentoring and professionalism: a programme evaluation. Library Management 23(1/2): 68-78.
• Genoni, P. 2002. "Since the mine closed down": mining town closures in the songs of Michael Thomas. Overland 169: 63-69.
• Genoni, P. 2001. Slouching Towards Calvary: Whereto the National Collection. Australian Academic and Research Libraries 32(2): 69-81.
• Genoni, P. 2001. Subverting the Empire: exploration in the fiction of Thea Astley and Peter Carey. Journal of Australian Studies. 70: 13-21.
• Exon, M, Genoni, P, and Farrelly, K. 2000. Graduate Employment Outcomes for Qualifying Library and Records Management Courses at Curtin University of Technology. Australian Library Journal 49:3: 245-258.
• Genoni, P. 2000. Ruth Park and Frank Hardy: Catholic Realists. Tirra Lirra 10: 3&4: 26-31.
• Mcswiney, C, Mcallister, M, Ritchie, A, and Genoni, P. 1999. Professionalism through ALIA: Outcomes from group mentoring programs. Australian Library Journal 48(2): 160-177.
• Genoni, P. 1999. The (Dis)appearance of Ludwig Leichhardt in young adult fiction. Orana: Journal of School and Children's Librarianship 35(1): 33-40.
• Greeve, N, and Genoni, P. 1997. School leaver attitudes towards careers in librarianship: the results of a survey. Australian Library Journal 46: 288-303.
• Wallace, H, and Genoni, P. 1995. The Law School Fund: Post Pearce collection development at the Law Library of the University of Western Australia. Australian Academic and Research Libraries 26(4): 271-280.
• Genoni, P. 1994. It's more than rock n' roll: the literature of rock muusic in a research library. Australian Academic and Research Libraries 25(2): 123-132.

Fully written papers (Refereed Conference proceedings)

• Genoni, P, Haddow, G, and Dumbell, P. 2009. Assessing the impact of Australian journals in the social sciences and humanties. Information Online 2009, 20/01/2009. Sydney: Australian Library and Information Association.
• Jilovsky, C, and Genoni, P. 2008. Changing library spaces: finding a place for print. Libraries/Changing Spaces, Virtual Places: 14th Biennial Conference, 05/02/2008. Melbourne, Australia: Victorian Association for Library Automation (VALA).
• Genoni, P. 2008. Sharing and saving: calculations towards an Australian print repository. Dreaming '08: Biennial Conference of the Australian Library and Information, 02/09/2008. Alice Springs, Australia: Australian Library and Information Association.
• Genoni, P, and Ritchie, A. 2006. Print v electronic reference sources: implications of an Australian study. Click06: Biennial Conference of the Australian Library and Information Association, 19/09/2006. Perth Convention Exhibition Centre, Perth, WA: Australian Library and Information Association.
• Genoni, P, Willson, M, and Merrick, H. 2005. Community, communication and collaboration: scholarly practice in transformation. The Next Wave of Collaboration: Educause Australasia 2005, 05/04/2005. Auckland, NZ: Educause Australasia.
• Willson, M, Merrick, H, and Genoni, P. 2004. Virtual symposia: an investigation into scholarly communities online. Breaking Boundaries: Integration & Interoperability: 12th Biennial Conference and Exhibition, 03/02/2004. Melbourne, Victoria: Victorian Association for Library Automation.
• Genoni, P. 2001. Girt by Sea: Islands in the novels of Thea Astley and Christopher Koch. 2000 ASAL Conference, 01/07/2000. Hobart, Australia: Association for the Study of Austrlain Literature.

Minor Creative Works

• Genoni, P. 2000. My Mentoring Diary. Australia: AIMA.