Susan Frank Klingon Fanzine Collection

Archive
Name:	Susan Frank Klingon Fanzine Collection
Date(s):	acquired in 2013
Archivist:	University of Texas Libraries (at College Station)
Founder:
Type:	media zines, convention materials
Fandom:	Star Trek
URL:	Susan Frank Klingon Fanzine Collection
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The Susan Frank Klingon Fanzine Collection is a collection of Star Trek zines, convention materials, and other ephemera donated to the University of Texas Libraries Special Collections by Susan Frank.

Similar Collections

For similar archives at TAMU, see Texas A&M Cushing Library Fanzine Collection.

For similar archives at Iowa, see University of Iowa Fanzine Archives.

Scope and Contents

The Susan Frank Collection reflects years of fannish interest and collecting by Frank, a fan from Philadelphia, PA. Most of the collection documents Frank's interest with a particular subset of Star Trek fandom - Klingon culture. Items from this fandom include fanfiction, club newsletters, reference works, calendars, and several pieces of realia such as Klingon-themed jewelry.

The collection also contains several examples of fanzines from general Star Trek fandom and from several other fandoms. There is also one box of professionally published books - on Klingons and Star Trek, as well as several academic monographs on fan studies.

Aside from these, there is one additional major component to the Frank Collection. Frank collected a large number of songbooks containing so-called "filksongs". Filksinging is a venerable fannish activity - it can be generally described as science fiction-related folk music, and is frequently performed at conventions and other fannish get-togethers. The Frank Collection contains both filk songbooks and CD recordings of Frank's original filksong cassette tapes.