Fan Culture Preservation Project
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Name: | Fan Culture Preservation Project (FCPP) |
Date(s): | 2009- |
Archivist: | University of Iowa Special Collections |
Founder: | OTW, University of Iowa Special Collections |
Type: | Fanzine archive |
Fandom: | multi |
URL: | Special Collections Department at the University of Iowa fan collections |
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The Fan Culture Preservation Project (FCPP) is a joint venture between the OTW and the Special Collections department at the University of Iowa to archive and preserve fanzines and other non-digital forms of fan culture.
Fans who have zines, fannish flyers, paper memorabilia, letterzines, newsletters, fannish correspondence, fan art, convention programs, convention badges, songvids - essentially anything fan made or fan produced - that they can’t keep anymore are encouraged to contact the OTW's Open Doors committee regarding the Fan Culture Preservation Project. Please.
Also see Fannish Estate Planning.
Collections
- The first major donation facilitated by OTW is The Fanzine Archives: A Library for the Preservation & Circulation of Fan-created Material, a collection of over 3,000 classic zines previously housed in Santa Barbara. The OTW was able to help the retiring archivist, Ming Wathne, save and protect this valuable collection.
- The Rusty Hevelin Collection, see Rusty Hevelin.
- Organization for Transformative Works Fanzine and Fan Fiction Collection
- Celeste Hotaling-Lyons Collection
- Susan Hill Fanzine Collection
- Brian Knapp Zines Collection
- Watchers of CIS Collection of Highlander Fan Materials
- Debbie Hoover Fanzine Collection
- Morgan Dawn “The Professionals” Circuit Library and Fanzine Collection
- Morgan Dawn Fanzine and Fanvid Collection
- Laura Leach Collection of “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” Fanzines and Related Materials
- Deidre Johnson Media Fandom Materials Collection
- Marian Mendez Blake’s 7 Fanzines Collection
- Vee Stade Star Trek Fanzines Collection
- Other collections can be found listed on the FCPP's project page or on Iowa's page of Fandom-Related Collections.
Some 2009 Comments
When the project was announced in August 2009, fans had a wide variety of reactions.
See: Fan Culture Preservation Project/Media Fan Comments: 2009
Further Reading
- OTW's announcement of the project, June 17, 2009.
- University of Iowa Libraries acquires thousands of science fiction 'fanzines', July 5, 2009, Associated Press. (article is now fee only, accessed via the websites archives)
- UI Libraries acquire 'Star Trek,' 'Star Wars' fanzines, Iowa City Press Citizen, July 2, 2009. (article is now fee only, accessed via the websites archives)
- UI Acquires Science Fiction 'Fanzines' Collection, July 5, 2009
- an account of a fan's visit in spring 2011 by darksnowfalling, accessed 3.5.2011[1]
- 10,000 zines and counting: a library's quest to save the history of fandom, about the project, with an emphasis on The Rusty Hevelin Collection (September 2015)
References
- ^ backup URL of darksnowfalling's visit with photos,reference link accessed March 23, 2013.