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Rynling R&D ([personal profile] rynling) wrote2021-08-02 11:02 am
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FOR GREAT SCHOLARSHIP

After finishing up my book on manga and fancomics, I donated all of my research materials to a university known for having fanzines in its special collections. I met and talked with the librarian in charge of that particular set of materials at a recent academic conference, and he was like, "Go ahead and send your fanzines over!!" So I did. It was kind of a lot of stuff, but I was happy for it to find a good home.

This morning the librarian got in touch to let me know that the library is naming a new special collection after me.

Wow. That's wild. I sure hope I didn't send them any porn.
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[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2021-08-02 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
as bids for immortality go, that's a pretty good one!
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[personal profile] runicmagitek 2021-08-03 01:18 pm (UTC)(link)
This is amazing! Congrats!

I like to think in an alternate universe I actually pursued a career in art history and became the dragon I always wanted to be with a hoard of amazing art. I just... museums and libraries and archives are so fucking cool and I would be over the fucking moon to preserve a bunch of fanzines.
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[personal profile] lassarina 2021-08-03 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
That sounds really cool, honestly.