250,000 Sci-Fi Mags Head To University of Oregon

Why is my former stomping grounds not covering this story? I had to read it over on Boing Boing.

Hello, Jason Scott here (historian guy). I saw that the 250,000 fanzines up for sale on ebay were taken down. I took the step of looking up and contacting Mike, the guy who put them up, and spoke for a while.
Apparently he had gone to the ebay sale as a last resort after contacting a number of universities to donate his collection. And, as luck would have it, his auction was spotted by a worker at the University of Oregon, who have contacted him and offered to take the collection whole.

So, the collection has found a home, and a sale to the highest bidder (not always the greatest way to divest decades of collecting and collating) is no longer necessary. Great news.

It's obviously not a huge story, but still print-worthy (as it's quite a collection).

Update on 2/13/05: The collection is actually going to the University of Iowa.

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