OVS - Libraries and my Comics...
I work in various libraries of course, none of which stock any of my comics, but I do understand that libraries like to keep copies of books printed, the book collecting spods.
The only one that I've dealt with direct is the National Library of Scotland, once because they were looking for a copy of a Doomlord reprint, and more recently because they showed interest in Solar Wind. I still have to get back to them (just sorting something out chaps), but they seem to be very good at communication and even offer to pay for things.
On the other hand, the form from the Agent for Legal Deposit Libraries in London is as welcome on my doorstep as a tax demand. Demanding 5 copies of my comic for various institutions with their dreary form and no offer of compensation.
The Cambridge and Oxford libraries should go on and get on with some real work instead of bothering me because they want the status of having all this crap in their basement. Birmingham University, the redbrick I went to certainly doesn't care, they just want to know how much I'm earning so they can sell me a credit card.
The National Libraries of Wales and Scotland I can understand, though I'm not sure we have anyone Scottish in (I'm told Omnivistascope's positive discrimination policy may come into force with OVS5). Trinity College in Ireland is completely beyond me, that's a completely different country. Perhaps it's because Michael Carroll designed the logo. Yes, I'll blame him.
The British Library, based in England of course, doesn't seem too bothered. There is a legal obligation to supply a copy of every printed work to various institutions in the UK. Someone getting in touch with the British library recently found out that under the Legal deposit law of the UK the Library should receive two copies of all publication published in the UK. Who knows why, perhaps its for posterity, perhaps its just in case the government wants to know what you're up to?
If they are kept for the rare moment when someone wants to read the comic while I'm alive, then they should help to keep me in sugar free Red Bull and Caramacs (as one has become accustomed to) and buy one. And if they are being kept for posterity, why should I care if someone wants to read my stuff after I'm dead? Sod 'em. If it's being kept on the off chance it can be used against me by MI5 or the Crown Prosecution Service, then that's not very tempting either.
These libraries would have to build a new wing if they took all of the small press publications produced in the UK in comics alone. Perhaps they'll send uniformed officers to comic conventions to seize these comics that have print runs in double figures. I feel a Space Lord story coming on...
But on the whole I don't bother till the letters come in. Then I moan about it and send one in.
http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/legaldep/index.html#cat
The only one that I've dealt with direct is the National Library of Scotland, once because they were looking for a copy of a Doomlord reprint, and more recently because they showed interest in Solar Wind. I still have to get back to them (just sorting something out chaps), but they seem to be very good at communication and even offer to pay for things.
On the other hand, the form from the Agent for Legal Deposit Libraries in London is as welcome on my doorstep as a tax demand. Demanding 5 copies of my comic for various institutions with their dreary form and no offer of compensation.
The Cambridge and Oxford libraries should go on and get on with some real work instead of bothering me because they want the status of having all this crap in their basement. Birmingham University, the redbrick I went to certainly doesn't care, they just want to know how much I'm earning so they can sell me a credit card.
The National Libraries of Wales and Scotland I can understand, though I'm not sure we have anyone Scottish in (I'm told Omnivistascope's positive discrimination policy may come into force with OVS5). Trinity College in Ireland is completely beyond me, that's a completely different country. Perhaps it's because Michael Carroll designed the logo. Yes, I'll blame him.
The British Library, based in England of course, doesn't seem too bothered. There is a legal obligation to supply a copy of every printed work to various institutions in the UK. Someone getting in touch with the British library recently found out that under the Legal deposit law of the UK the Library should receive two copies of all publication published in the UK. Who knows why, perhaps its for posterity, perhaps its just in case the government wants to know what you're up to?
If they are kept for the rare moment when someone wants to read the comic while I'm alive, then they should help to keep me in sugar free Red Bull and Caramacs (as one has become accustomed to) and buy one. And if they are being kept for posterity, why should I care if someone wants to read my stuff after I'm dead? Sod 'em. If it's being kept on the off chance it can be used against me by MI5 or the Crown Prosecution Service, then that's not very tempting either.
These libraries would have to build a new wing if they took all of the small press publications produced in the UK in comics alone. Perhaps they'll send uniformed officers to comic conventions to seize these comics that have print runs in double figures. I feel a Space Lord story coming on...
But on the whole I don't bother till the letters come in. Then I moan about it and send one in.
http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/legaldep/index.html#cat
posted by paulvonscott at 2:47 PM
2 Comments:
As far as I was aware, they only want one for thigs with an ISBN or ISSN. Did you bother for Solar Wind, or just for OVS?
Jay
http://www.factorfictionpress.co.uk
For the first two issues of OVS, I did... for the third issue, no decided not to bother. I think my block of ten numbers was about to expire and it got complicated with the move to 13 digit ISBN's (i.e. I couldn't be bothered).
Solar Wind never had an ISBN or ISSN, bt the NSL still wants copies. They've been more polite about it :)
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