UK Paper Circuit Library - by file folder - File Folder 01

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Waaaaay back in May last year, I posted about the UK Paper Circuit Library rather unexpectedly ending up in my care. Unfortunately it was just on the cusp of my maddest part of the year, and I never did catch up with it. I delayed replying to comments while I thought about what to do - and then Jobs 2 and 3 were upon me, and all was lost. Very sorry to everyone who replied - I really appreciate the input, and hope you won't let my dreadful manners put you off. I've finally replied, and I will keep trying to do better...

It's finally time to get on with it again, and see what can be done. My thoughts in general, and considering people's comments:
- I want people to have access to the stories
- But I don't want to disrespect author wishes (known or not) about posting their stories to the internet.
- I'm not keen on the idea of locking the stories up in an academic institution, even though I know they'd intend to archive them safely. I definitely don't want to ship them out of the UK to do this. Trouble is, only academics could access them, and with the best will and the state of university funding these days, I'm not sure how much of a guarantee there'd be for their safety anyway. Look at the way big archives are scanning paper docs like crazy to get rid of them - if it can happen to the whole Windrush generation, then I don't fancy the chances of our Pros fic...
- So I think distribution among fans and Pros archives as much as possible is the way to go

- the question then is the same as for major archives: keep the paper copies as well as having them online? Is it worth it if they're copies of copies and hard to read to start with?
- but what happens if the internet blows up (or the nasty powers that be steal our access)? Don't we need a back-up? Is there a way of ensuring that there are lots of back-ups throughout fandom?

While we're thinking about that, I've started going through the files, because it looks like alot of stories are either online anyway, or in ProsLib. Here's the results for File Folder 1. Brackets around initials means that they're not specifically the author's pseud, but initials of the author name given, which is either not supposed to be on the internet, or isn't yet on the internet so I don't want to expose it. The difference between "Unknown" and "Anonymous" is that the latter is a chosen pseudonym, whereas the former means there was no name on the story.

( Stories in Folder 1 of UK Paper Circuit Library )