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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">Andy Sawyer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">Science Fiction Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">Special Collections and Archives<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">University of Liverpool Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">PO Box 123, Liverpool L69 3DA, UK.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">Course Director, MA in Science Fiction Studies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.liv.ac.uk/english/ma_courses/post_ma_sf.htm"><span style="color:blue">http://www.liv.ac.uk/english/ma_courses/post_ma_sf.htm</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.sf-foundation.org/publications/foundation.html"><span style="color:blue">http://www.sf-foundation.org/publications/foundation.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">The Science Fiction Hub:
<a href="http://www.sfhub.ac.uk/"><span style="color:blue">http://www.sfhub.ac.uk/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">The Science Fiction Foundation:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">"... there is no higher life form than a librarian."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">THE SCIENCE OF DISCWORLD: Terry Pratchett, Jack Cohen, and Ian Stewart, p. 10.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> sfcc-bounces@lists.ucr.edu [mailto:sfcc-bounces@lists.ucr.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Melissa Conway<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 11 November 2011 23:20<br>
<b>To:</b> sfcc@lists.ucr.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [SFCC] Minutes from the June 23, 2011 inaugural membership meeting/planning for next membership meeting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Greetings, SFCC members and welcome to our very own Listserv!
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Most of you have already seen the minutes from our inaugural membership meeting, but I'm sending these again (pasted below my signature) so
that we can celebrate the implementation of one of the action items we discussed that night: the creation of this listserv!
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Shall we start on another one of our action items: the planning of our next annual meeting at the RBMS Preconference in San Diego (June 19-22
2012)? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Melissa (Conway)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Minutes of the SF Consortium Meeting,
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">ACRL/RBMS Preconference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Thursday, June 23, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Attending: (<b>NAMES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER.</b> )<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Tom Beck, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Jane Carpenter, UCLA Special Collections; Cait Coker, Texas A&M; Melissa Conway, UC Riverside,
Special Collections & Archives Eaton Collection; Will Hansen, Duke Special Collections; Elspeth Healey, Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas; Greg Prickman, University of Iowa.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Note-taker: Cait Coker<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">The inaugural meeting of the Science Fiction Collections Consortium convened at 6:30 p.m. at a table during the RBMS reception at the Rural
Life Museum, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">4560 Essen Lane, Baton Rouge, LA 70809-3424 . We met at a table on which we placed a green inflatable alien. Originally, the meeting was planned for about thirty
minutes as a way to meet one another, but the meeting ran well past our original end time. We did not work from an agenda, but we very excitedly discussed many ideas including:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The possibilities of sharing of duplicate materials among consortium members;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Possible distribution of responsibility for areas of collecting (<i>e.g.,
</i>video games, born-digital materials); National vs. regional?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Plans for discussions of processing of materials (e.g., Should fanzine collections be processed as archives or serials?)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Creating Excel file for the holdings of all member institutions so that we can be more aware of what resources are available and where
and make scholars more aware;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Creating a website to bring SFCC members together; Cait Coker suggested using the Cushing Scifi blog (</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://blogs.tamu.edu/scifi"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">http://blogs.tamu.edu/scifi</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red">Creating a listserv for SFCC. Greg Prickman will find out if Iowa will host this. If Iowa cannot, Melissa Conway will check with UL at
UCR.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red">Ideas for holding future meetings, including virtual meetings by teleconference or web, annually at RBMS and every other year at the Eaton
Conferences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">--University of Iowa’s forthcoming 2011 symposium on comic books.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">--UCR Eaton’s Science Fiction Studies Symposium, April 10, 2013</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red">
<b><i>N.B.: The date of the symposium will change. It will now take place on <u>April 11, 2013</u>.<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">--UCR Eaton and Science Fiction Research Association SF in Media Conference April 11-13, 2013. in Riverside, CA
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">--Duke proposed an RBMS panel on collaborations between collectors and technical services staff on unusual/realia collections. It is tentatively titled “From Dungeons to
Dragons.” Contact Will Hansen if you’d like to participate </span><span lang="EN-US">at
<a href="mailto:william.hansen@duke.edu"><b><span lang="PL">william.hansen@duke.edu</span></b></a>.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">--University of Kansas Spencer Library has the archives of Cordwainer Smith and will be announcing acquisition
of another author archive soon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">--University of Iowa’s plans to host symposium on fans, scholars, and libraries regarding the fanzine collections.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">--Duke University is processing an RPG collection.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">--Texas A&M’s preservation project for pulps (timeframe?)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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