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 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
• 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)