Dear Melissa,<br><br> Great idea. The Azriel Rosenfeld Science Fiction Research Collection holds about 80,000 fanzines. Some additional recent ones arrived yesterday. My guess is that this is a good time to have such a project, since the SF fanzine community is aging and younger SF-ers are more engaged by bolgs and other electronic communications than fanzines. I look forward to hearing more on the subject of a grant. <br>
<br>Best,<br>Tom<br><br>-- <br>Tom Beck<br>Chief Curator<br>University of Maryland, Baltimore County<br>1000 Hilltop Circle<br>Baltimore, Maryland 21250<br>U.S.A.<br>tel.: <a href="tel:410-455-3827" value="+14104553827" target="_blank">410-455-3827</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Melissa Conway <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:melissa.conway@ucr.edu" target="_blank">melissa.conway@ucr.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">As those of you who were able to join our windswept SFCC meeting at RBMS, I would like to apply for grant funding (<i>e.g.,</i> an NEH Preservation and Access Grant) for
a collaborative cataloging project of the fanzine collections in SFCC institutions. While this initiative would mainly involve the institutions with substantial fanzine holdings, the project would benefit every SFCC institution, including those with only a
small number of fanzines. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">I am at the very earliest stages of planning, but will keep you all apprised on developments.. The only thing I would need from each of you at this early stage is an approximate
--truly a <i>ballpark</i>--count of the number of fanzines in your institution. For example, the Eaton Collection has
<i>about</i> 110,000 separate issues. "Guesstimates" are fine; I am not asking anyone to start counting his/her holdings!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">If you have any questions about this project or need clarification on any of this, please do not hesitate to write or to call me directly <a href="tel:%28951-827-3233" value="+19518273233" target="_blank">(951-827-3233</a>).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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