[SFCC] Minutes from the June 23, 2011 inaugural membership meeting/planning for next membership meeting

[Sawyer, Andy]

Welcome from across the Atlantic!

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Andy Sawyer
Science Fiction Librarian
Special Collections and Archives
University of Liverpool Library
PO Box 123, Liverpool L69 3DA, UK.

Course Director, MA in Science Fiction Studies.
http://www.liv.ac.uk/english/ma_courses/post_ma_sf.htm


Reviews Editor: Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction http://www.sf-foundation.org/publications/foundation.html

The Science Fiction Hub: http://www.sfhub.ac.uk/

The Science Fiction Foundation: http://www.sf-foundation.org/

"... there is no higher life form than a librarian."
THE SCIENCE OF DISCWORLD: Terry Pratchett, Jack Cohen, and Ian Stewart, p. 10.

From: sfcc-bounces at lists.ucr.edu [mailto:sfcc-bounces at lists.ucr.edu] On Behalf Of Melissa Conway
Sent: 11 November 2011 23:20
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Subject: [SFCC] Minutes from the June 23, 2011 inaugural membership meeting/planning for next membership meeting


Greetings, SFCC members and welcome to our very own Listserv!



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!



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)?





Best,

Melissa (Conway)







Minutes of the SF Consortium Meeting,

ACRL/RBMS Preconference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Thursday, June 23, 2011



Attending:  (NAMES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER. )

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.



Note-taker: Cait Coker



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, 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:



·         The possibilities of sharing of duplicate materials among consortium members;

·         Possible distribution of responsibility for areas of collecting (e.g., video games, born-digital materials); National vs. regional?

·         Plans for discussions of processing of materials (e.g., Should fanzine collections be processed as archives or serials?)

·         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;

·         Creating a website to bring SFCC members together; Cait Coker  suggested using the Cushing Scifi blog (http://blogs.tamu.edu/scifi)

·         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.

·         Ideas for holding future meetings, including virtual meetings by teleconference or web, annually at RBMS and every other year at the Eaton Conferences.



Various projects, acquisitions, upcoming events were discussed in a round robin:

--University of Iowa’s forthcoming 2011 symposium on comic books.

--UCR Eaton’s Science Fiction Studies Symposium, April 10, 2013  N.B.: The date of the symposium will change. It will now take place on April 11, 2013.

--UCR Eaton and Science Fiction Research Association  SF in Media Conference April 11-13, 2013. in Riverside, CA
--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 at william.hansen at duke.edu<mailto:william.hansen at duke.edu>.

--University of Kansas Spencer Library has the archives of Cordwainer Smith and  will be announcing acquisition of another author archive soon.

--University of Iowa’s plans to host symposium on fans, scholars, and libraries regarding the fanzine collections.

--Duke University is processing an RPG collection.

--Texas A&M’s preservation project for pulps (timeframe?)

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