Reminder:

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Hey there, fabulous flist!

Just a reminder to please take a few minutes to fill out the [ AUDIOFIC SURVEY ] if you haven't yet. It's open through Saturday. Whatever fandom, however you participate, we want to hear from you! We've got 185 responses so far, but it'd be super-cool if we could get 200

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[bookwench31]

oooo Which class are you writing the term paper for?

Don't you love being able to combine library school and fandom? It's fun.

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670. Which makes it especially awesome because this way at least the term paper is interesting, if not the lectures.

This is my first time I've done the fandom / library school crossover. But it is definitely fun! And we haven't even registered yet, but I'm already plotting another crossover project for next term! (I really want to take the Communities of Practice class.) :D

[bookwench31]

I spent a lot of time in 670 thinking about how it could be applied to fandom. Mainly to keep from dying of boredom. We didn't get to do anything as interesting as write a term paper. (yes it was boring enough that writing a PAPER would have made it better)

I need to look and see what's being offered. I need to take management but other than that I've got no major plans for spring. I think they're offering the advance children's seminar which I'd LOVE to take but I haven't taken the regular children's lit. Not that I think I really need to take the regular one to be able to cope with the advanced.

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Yeah, she restructured the class a bit so now there's only one test (not a midterm, not a final, but somewhere in between - a midfinal?) and a term paper. I am excessively grateful for the term paper as it does make it easier to understand the material, since I'm applying it to a real-world situation. MARC records and classification theories just don't mean much on a powerpoint slide.

I'm in the children's lit seminar now and it is fabulous! It's the same professor in the spring advanced class, so I'm sure it will be equally awesome. I would love to take that, too, but I don't know if I can justify it since I don't plan to be a children's librarian.

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YAY!! ♥ Thank you so much for voting! :D

See, we couldn't decide either, so we put it to the vote to make other people decide for us. :P

[propinquitine]

The pairing tag question is giving me disproportionate amounts of angst! I ended up listing all of my OTPs and then figuring out which naming convention would put them in the "right" order. First names, it is! (I'm assuming here that "Doctor" counts as his first name, as opposed to "The".)

I can see why, for a pan-fandom archive, you'd want something standard that didn't require you to go with fandom custom each time, especially since there might be warring factions of nomenclature within a fandom, or you might have an SGA situation where it's John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, but Rodney McKay/John Sheppard (which duh, you are aware of, but I like using the bold command).

Of course, any kind of labeling requirement/practice raises the issue of compelled speech, and whether by having a standardized system you force people into a particular kind of expression that's distinct from or even in opposition to their chosen speech. (Say, if a person podficcing a John/Elizabeth story really felt it was important to say the pairing was "Sparky

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Wow, thanks for all that insight! I am happy to provide you practice exam scenarios! :P

So, to finally reply to a bit of what you blathered on waxed poetical about, it certainly is not our intention to limit the ways in which people can label their pairings. Nor do I think we'll actually have that effect, since podfics are a secondary version of a story. The pairing labels and such are transferred over from the fanfic and, as far as I know, there is no one attempting a similar thing with fanfics. (Oh, wait, except the Archive of Our Own, which seems to have no rules for pairing names yet.) I know there are weird pairing name rules, but we're aiming for consistency. Within one fandom, as you point out, there are different ways to write a pairing (J/R vs. M/S (though curiously both are alphabetical!)). With a multi-fandom archive, though, there are many (many many many!!) fandoms we know nothing about besides what is given in the header for the text fics, so if those are inconsistent, we have no way of knowing what's the

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Also, I'm writing a term paper on how we're reorganizing the Archive. Which is awesome! (Except for the part where I inadvertently set my professor to stalk general_jinjur. *headdesk*)

Bwahahhaaa that amuses me.

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It happened like this: I was explaining about the site and showing her a few screencaps, so she asked if I designed it and I was all "nooooooo, I am not that awesome", so then she asked about the actual designer and I said "oh, yes, her name is general_jinjur and she's a librarian in [state that begins with an M], and then the professor said "oh hey, I'm going to M-state tomorrow! I'll see if I can find this person to chat!" and I felt utterly mortified.

Thankfully it amuses general_jinjur, too. :)

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And here when you said 'set your prof to stalking' I thought you meant over the web, not in real life! I guess this is an example of the world being small, or something like that. O.o I am glad that it amuses general_jinjur too, otherwise it would be too weird.

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Yeah, very small world! But at least my prof thinks it's a cool idea and is excited about it. She didn't seem to think I was just an insane fangirl. :P