Putting out Codslap! has been so much fun, I want to do it again.

So the Library Society of the World Ministry of Underground Publications is once again accepting submissions for the second ever LSW zine. I enjoyed handing them out in person at ALA Annual, so let’s make Internet Librarian our goal this time. IL2009 is October 26 through 28, or just about exactly two months from today. Deadline for submissions is October 1 and I expect I will have to be pretty strict about that in order to get everything ready in time.

I won’t be going to Internet Librarian this year, so I’ll be looking for a few people to volunteer to print 10-20 copies each to bring to Monterey. I’ll handle the mail order only this time. Internet Librarian is merely a convenient date for publication and distribution: there’s no need to make contributions that “go with” Internet Librarian.

So far I already have excellent submissions of photography and OPAC poetry (and if that doesn’t make you want a copy, I don’t know what will). I’d love to get submissions that are (1) short-to-medium length; (2) original (both in the sense of not published before and not already done-to-death); and (3) fun to read. “Fun” doesn’t have to be satirical or “humor writing”–I’d have fun publishing and reading some heartfelt stuff about working in libraries. But it does mean that I don’t want something that reads like it should be published in the Journal of Excruciating Library Minutiae. I’m the editor, my decisions are final, if you don’t like it, start your own LSW zine. (No, really. Please do start another LSW zine! That would be really cool. We could trade each other copies.)

I also hope to give the zine more of a handmade feel, and less of a desktop published feel, so original artwork, handwritten (but legible) text, photocopied collages and so on are very welcome. If you just want to send me text, that is also just fine.

For maximum confusion and uncertainty, I’m planning to change the name from Codslap! to something else. Currently, I’m thinking of It Looks Like Someone Dropped a LIBRARIAN BOMB in Here, known to its friends as Librarian Bomb. Any other suggestions?

Also, Codslap! Volume I, issue 1 is still available. Hit me on the PayPal using the button below, or send three dollars cash (or the equivalent in zines or novelty items) to Library Society of the World Clubhouse, Box 7893, Colorado Springs CO 80933. If you must write a check, make it out to Steve Lawson, please.