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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", Times, serif;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">My goodness, I do apologize for the lateness of this month's newsletter! I was out for the first week of September, but happy to say that we're
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">Without further ado:</span></div>
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<li style="list-style-type: disc;"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Our own Professor John Jennings is finalizing new, shiny logos for the Eaton Collection, and I can't
<b>wait</b> to share those with you soon! </font>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">We've received some fabulous donations recently, including three volumes of correspondence with and about the work of Stanley G. Weinbaum (one of the pioneers of Golden Age Science Fiction), more fanzines/fannish
materials from LASFS (Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society), and a large collection of SF pulps - many of which are new to the Eaton - which really rounds out our comprehensive holdings of periodicals.</font></div>
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</li><li style="list-style-type: disc;"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Even more exciting: I'm delighted to say that we've implemented a large-scale plan to purchase notable SF titles from 2013-2021, bringing our print materials right up to date. There
are too many to list in this email (around 350 titles!) but trust me when I say there are some
<b>bangers</b> in there. This was based on a document I put together listing all the major SF/F literary awards, and, going forward, both shortlisted and award-winning titles will be purchased for the Eaton Collection. </font></li></ul>
<div><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Some exciting events are coming up next month, too: </font></div>
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<li style="list-style-type: disc; color: black;"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">I'll be attending Rare Books Los Angeles on the 7<span><sup>th</sup></span>-8<span><sup>th</sup> of October, which should yield some great finds. </span></font>
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</li><li style="list-style-type: disc; color: black;"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">My colleagues Andrew Lippert and Sandy Enriquez are hosting an
<b>Archives Fair on Tuesday, October 10</b><b><sup>th</sup> from 11am-3pm</b> outside of the
<b>Rivera Library</b>, to celebrate October being National Archives Month. Do come along and check out some of the wonderful archival materials we hold in SCUA (and, of course, there will be Eaton materials in there, too!)</font>
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</li><li style="list-style-type: disc;"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" style="color: black;">Yet MORE excitement: this Fall sees the launch of
<i style="font-weight: bold;">Ancestral Futures: Speculative Imaginings from the Archive
</i>- SCUA's first arts and literary magazine! <b>Submissions open on September 25</b><sup><b>th</b></sup> for both creative submissions and registration to a microfiction workshop taking place on
<b>November 14th</b>, so mark your calendars. </font></li></ul>
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<div style="margin: 0px; color: black;"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">'til next month! </font></div>
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book of the month:</span></u></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; background-color: white;"><span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0"> </span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin: 0px;" class="ContentPasted0"><i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i><span style="font-weight: bold;">The
Spear Cuts Through Water, </span>Simon Jimenez (2022) </span></span></span></span></div>
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