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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Dear SFCC members,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">As a new member, I post this information on our latest acquisition, some 1500 hardback and paperback Science Fiction titles gifted to us last year by Prof. Fred Fastier, first head of Pharmacology
here at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. A link to a photo opportunity is provided (please excuse my Quasimodo-like stance at the back).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Prof. Fastier is 92, quick-witted, smart (he enjoys writing limericks), and over the years he has been extremely generous to the University. To celebrate his generosity, I will be mounting
a Sci Fi exhibition of his books in Special Collections in late March next year. As he remarked to me, he will happily open the exhibition ‘if he is here!’
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Like all our exhibitions, it will eventually be on-line.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">At the moment, only a small portion is catalogued & some covers have been scanned. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">In our modest way, we will build slowly on this collection.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Per the _Otago Daily Times_ site (<a href="http://www.odt.co.nz/campus/university-otago/139903/sci-fi-trove-gift-university"><http://www.odt.co.nz/campus/university-otago/139903/sci-fi-trove-gift-university></a>)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Donald</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Dr. Donald Kerr, F.L.S.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""> <br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Special Collections Librarian</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">University of Otago</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">P.O. Box 56</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Dunedin, New Zealand</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Phone: (03) 479-8330</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Email: <a href="mailto:donald.kerr@otago.ac.nz">
donald.kerr@otago.ac.nz</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Centre for the Book at Otago<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Current Exhibition</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">‘In Search of Scotland’</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">30 September to 16 December 2011</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif""><a href="http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/SpecialCollections/exhibitions.html">http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/SpecialCollections/exhibitions.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif"">**<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Garamond","serif"">‘Happy, intense absorption in any work, which is to be brought as near to perfection as possible, this is a state of being with God, and the men who have not known it have missed
life itself.’</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Garamond","serif""> - D. H. Lawrence
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