Fan Culture Preservation Project

Archive
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 refer to Fannish Estate Planning and the AO3 Fanzine Scan Hosting Project.

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
• 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)