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Fandango, v. 3, issue 3, whole 11, Spring 1946

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[bo]x to dump them into. It has alphabetical separators, and is small [en]ough to sit on my nearest bookcase. Its use gets away from the ne[c]essity of using at least a hundred space and money consuming file folders; yet it enables me to keep this material which occasionally may be worth referring to. (Lack of such an arrangement has cost me at least a dollar in extra copies of Acolyte sent to people whose origin[a]l letters I couldn't find.) In the event someone out of the little box should develope into a major correspondent, I have only to dig his stuff out and put it in a folder in the big drawer.
The second drawer contains from front to back: key to my fanzines (of which more will be said in a moment); Imagindexes and other bibliographical material; Acolyte material subdivided into several folders; Fan-Dango material; mss used in previous publications; unpublished Laney duds; two or thre[e] miscellaneous classifications; my collection of fan-photos; and my Argosy and Blue-book excerpts.
Drawer three contains fanzines; both files (such as [underlined] Stefnews) which I frequently refer to and the more unclassifiable stuff.
Drawer four contains back issues of Laney publications, duplicate fanzines, and considerable space at the back. All my own stuff is accurately classified. The others are in a mess but someday I may alphabatise them.
My fanzine file is still in a state of flux. The major items are contained in 31 book-style filing boxes, the larger ones (for 8 1/2x11 items) labelled A through Y, and the smaller labelled AA through FF. These letters refer to a key, setup alphabetically by title, and thus far merely written on sheets of paper (A card catalog is strongly indicated.) There is no particular order within the boxes, except that all issues of any one magazine are together, and in chronological order. In pre-file cabinet days, two or three of these boxes had overflowed into "Envelope 1, Envelope 2," etc. and these batches are in the file drawer as was. The major FAPA stuf[f] is in the boxes with the subscription fanzines. Lesser FAPA items are segregated by the names of the publishers; there is also in the drawer a large section labelled "Futurian Crap", and another labelled "Convention Crap". (The casual reader would be amazed at how many otherwise unclassifiable items this disposed of.) These two categories and the wad of "Degler Crap" are the only unclassified sections of the major material. There are in addition six or seven folders labelled "ABCD, EFGH," etc. which are used for singlesheet material of too slight moment to file elsewhere. It is just dumped in according to the publisher's name.
The chief weakness of my fanzine filing is that is requires the use of the key to locate anything. On the other hand, a strictly alphabetical arrangement just wouldn't fit into my shelf boxes, and further would not provide for the few files that are referred to in connection with my correspondence. I think that when I get the key set up onto file cards, with on[e] card to a title and a bit of cross-indexing between titl[e]s and [e]ditors, it will prov[e] emin[e]ntly practical.
My record collection is in albums classified by artists, but the increasing number of artists by whom I only one or two records has made memory an unsatisfactory guide, and I plan on numbering the albums and setting up a card fil[e] of artists. Another proj[e]ct for the futur[e] is a card file of the Acolyte list. Th[e] six drawers of my desk contain: env[e]lopes and cards, stationery, carbons and second sh[ee]ts, clips, and oth[e]r oddments of supplies, unread fanzin[e]s, and unanswered l[e]tters.
The setting up of the [e]ntire system took five weeks. Boy! Was it worth it!    --9--

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[bo]x to dump them into. It has alphabetical separators, and is small [en]ough to sit on my nearest bookcase. Its use gets away from the ne[c]essity of using at least a hundred space and money consuming file folders; yet it enables me to keep this material which occasionally may be worth referring to. (Lack of such an arrangement has cost me at least a dollar in extra copies of Acolyte sent to people whose origin[a]l letters I couldn't find.) In the event someone out of the little box should develope into a major correspondent, I have only to dig his stuff out and put it in a folder in the big drawer. The second drawer contains from front to back: key to my fanzines (of which more will be said in a moment); Imagindexes and other bibliographical material; Acolyte material subdivided into several folders; Fan-Dango material; mss used in previous publications; unpublished Laney duds; two or thre[e] miscellaneous classifications; my collection of fan-photos; and my Argosy and Blue-book excerpts. Drawer three contains fanzines; both files (such as [underlined] Stefnews) which I frequently refer to and the more unclassifiable stuff. Drawer four contains back issues of Laney publications, duplicate fanzines, and considerable space at the back. All my own stuff is accurately classified. The others are in a mess but someday I may alphabatise them. My fanzine file is still in a state of flux. The major items are contained in 31 book-style filing boxes, the larger ones (for 8 1/2x11 items) labelled A through Y, and the smaller labelled AA through FF. These letters refer to a key, setup alphabetically by title, and thus far merely written on sheets of paper (A card catalog is strongly indicated.) There is no particular order within the boxes, except that all issues of any one magazine are together, and in chronological order. In pre-file cabinet days, two or three of these boxes had overflowed into "Envelope 1, Envelope 2," etc. and these batches are in the file drawer as was. The major FAPA stuf[f] is in the boxes with the subscription fanzines. Lesser FAPA items are segregated by the names of the publishers; there is also in the drawer a large section labelled "Futurian Crap", and another labelled "Convention Crap". (The casual reader would be amazed at how many otherwise unclassifiable items this disposed of.) These two categories and the wad of "Degler Crap" are the only unclassified sections of the major material. There are in addition six or seven folders labelled "ABCD, EFGH," etc. which are used for singlesheet material of too slight moment to file elsewhere. It is just dumped in according to the publisher's name. The chief weakness of my fanzine filing is that is requires the use of the key to locate anything. On the other hand, a strictly alphabetical arrangement just wouldn't fit into my shelf boxes, and further would not provide for the few files that are referred to in connection with my correspondence. I think that when I get the key set up onto file cards, with on[e] card to a title and a bit of cross-indexing between titl[e]s and [e]ditors, it will prov[e] emin[e]ntly practical. My record collection is in albums classified by artists, but the increasing number of artists by whom I only one or two records has made memory an unsatisfactory guide, and I plan on numbering the albums and setting up a card fil[e] of artists. Another proj[e]ct for the futur[e] is a card file of the Acolyte list. Th[e] six drawers of my desk contain: env[e]lopes and cards, stationery, carbons and second sh[ee]ts, clips, and oth[e]r oddments of supplies, unread fanzin[e]s, and unanswered l[e]tters. The setting up of the [e]ntire system took five weeks. Boy! Was it worth it! --9--