On July 5, 2016, Prof. Jason Ellis spent three hours continuing to inventory the magazine portion of the City Tech Science Fiction Collection. This session focused on the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Satellite, and Infinity. Below are some of theĀ magazine covers that he saw while doing the inventory.
On June 29, 2016, Prof. Jason EllisĀ spent three hours in the library archives inventorying the SF magazines in the City Tech Science Fiction Collection. When completed, it will serve as a record of the magazines in the collection and provide visitors with a temporary finding aid (the information collected includes title, date, and shelf id). This session focused on Worlds of If and Galaxy.Ā Prof. Alan Lovegreen stopped by to discussĀ strategies for the inventory and research tools, too.
On June 27, 2016, Prof. Jason Ellis used his Canon EOS T3i and 10-18mm wide angle lens to take photos of each shelf of the City Tech Science Fiction Collection (182 shelves in all). He created a new Google Photo Album available here to enable easy browsing of the shelves. The photos are arranged beginning at the top shelf of the first bookcase and going to the bottom and repeating with the next bookcase. The collection is currently arranged by monographs, SF anthologies, SF magazines, journals, and novels.
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