It’s that time again, people. Time to make another Library Society of the World zine.

A new wrinkle this time is a theme: “Lost and Found in the Library.” Everything from your virginity to Jesus, a calculator to a long-forgotten manuscript, this issue will be about those things (people, ideas, etc.) that we have lost and/or found in a library.

The deadline to submit is May 15, which is only a little over a month away. My projected print date will be June 15 or after I get back from my planned trip to see Josh in mid-June. I’m not going to ALA or any other big library conference soon, so there’s not that external time pressure.

Submissions may be textual, photographic, artistic, prose, poetry, rants, reviews, laments, crossword puzzles, and so on and so forth. They need not be on the “lost and found” theme, but if I get a lot of good lost & found submissions, I may hold back other things for a later issue.

If you’d like to design/lay out your own submission, that’s wonderful. The zine will again be half-letter size, or 5.5in x 8.5 in. I’m also happy to accept just text or pictures from you and design your pages myself. Send submissions electronically to steve@stevelawson.name or postally to Library Society of the World Training Center / PO Box 7893 / Colorado Springs CO 80933. As always, I am the sole editor and I don’t promise I’ll publish everything anybody sends me.

I also have an idea for a group-participation project. If you don’t have an idea for a fully worked-out submission, keep an eye out for an announcement of that plan in the days to come.