arisia | Locus Science Fiction Foundation is doing a Kickstarter!

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Hello from the Locus Science Fiction Foundation!

Knowing your commitment to and involvement in the science fiction and fantasy community, we are writing to ask you for your help with a small project. As you may know, Locus magazine is now part of the Locus Science Fiction Foundation, a 501(c)(3) California nonprofit. One of the goals of the LSFF is to preserve, protect, digitize, and make available to the public the massive photo and ephemera collection that belonged to Locus founder, Charles N. Brown. The LSFF's archival intern, Kate Dollarhyde, has set up a Kickstarter campaign to help fund this project: digitizing and cataloging the over 40,000 pieces of SF/F history in the collection, and then setting up an online gallery of as many of the materials as possible, making them available to fans, writers, researchers, scholars, and others.

Our LSFF Kickstarter project is designed to fund the purchase of a large quantity of archival supplies for the photos and ephemera, so that we can properly provide long-term stabilization and storage for the 60+ years worth of collectible photos, memorabilia, and documents as we digitize them. We also need to pay for a good quality scanner and the construction of a searchable, viewable, online database of these images for public and academic use.

I'd like to ask each of you to, simply, promote the heck out of the LSFF Kickstarter campaign. Here is the link to the LSFF Kickstarter page.

We're reaching out to you knowing that you can get that information out there - whether it's through Facebook, Twitter, your own personal blogs, websites, fan bases, fan sites, listservs or personal email (preferably all of the above!) - it's the jumpstart we need to get the word out there. We'll be following that with campaigns to Locus magazine subscribers, as well as having the LSFF board members personally campaign to raise funds.

Our initial goal is $9,500, and we'll be running our Kickstarter for 35 days. If we overfund, there are several other projects waiting in the wings that are just as important. We'd like to ask you to help us get the word out! Please also visit our website at http://www.lsff.net for more information on the Locus Science Fiction Foundation.

Feel free to let us know if you have any questions. Emails regarding the project can be sent to <locusarchive@gmail.com>.

Thank you all, in advance, for helping out the foundation with a few words to your own supporters!

Sincerely,

Liza Trombi, Editor-in-Chief, Locus Magazine
Rina Weisman, Board Member, Locus Science Fiction Foundation
Kate Dollarhyde, Intern, LSFF