Mina de Malfois and the Fandom Preservation Project

[mina_de_malfois]

By now some of you will already know about the archive at Texas A&M University (TAMU) including Minaverse stuff in its "Digital Repository." Having finally remembered how to log in, I just thought I should make sure everyone knows *I* know, and approve and all.

So, yeah. It's come full circle; I can only assume Arc is somehow behind this project.

Comments

[amber]

Oh my god, Mina goes recursive!

thanks from TAMU

[jwbrett]

Dear Mina,

Hi! I'm Jeremy Brett, the processing/fannish archivist at Texas A&M University. Morgan Dawn and I are, as you know, collaborating on creating a permanent digital collection (or as permanent as we can hope to get in the digital world, I suppose) for your work and those of others in the Minaverse. I just wanted to drop you an e-mail, introduce myself, and say hi.

I'm really excited about TAMU being the repository for your work, especially because I think the whole Minaverse is an amazing example of collaborative creative fannish effort and a wonderful window into the fannish mindset (one of them, anyway).

Thanks so much for writing it all in the first place, and thanks also for letting us keep it safe for the future.

Be well, Mina. Feel free to get in touch with me with any questions or comments, or anything else.

Jeremy

Jeremy Brett, C.A.
Assistant Professor and Processing Archivist
Cushing Memorial Library and Archives
Texas A&M University
5000 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-5000

jwbrett@library.tamu.edu
(979) 845-1951

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

-Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra, December 24, 1798

More word from TAMU

[jwbrett1]

Dear Mina,

Hi! It’s been a while since we exchanged e-mails, but I wanted to let you know that here at Texas A&M we’re starting to move forward on actually building the Mina de Malfois Archive, where (hopefully) all the products of the Minaverse can live forever. I think I managed to make the rest of the team that will be working on this pretty excited – we’d already been working on archiving digitized fanzines, so they understood something about fannish culture already, but they all really had a ball with the meta nature of the Minaverse.

As we proceed, I’ll be happy to give you periodic updates, and of course I’ll let you know when the whole thing is ready to go. Obviously we won’t archive anything for which we don’t have permissions, so if you want to…um…gently encourage writers to get in touch with me and let me know that they’re OK with this project, I would deeply appreciate it.

Oh, I did have a quick question – I’m trying to get something like an exact number of MDM stories. Do you know, offhand, how many stories the Mina corpus has in total?

Thanks, Mina! I really love your work and I’m glad we have the chance to create a permanent digital archive for it.

Take care,
Jeremy