So far only TWO people have entered. They are lovely people with very nice entries, but two?

So, just to make things easy on y’all who didn’t order a copy of the zine or who are loath to remove a sheet from your copy, here is a downloadable version: PDF of the LSW Coloring Contest. This is a two page document, so if you can duplex print it, you can color on one side and fold according to the other side, and it’ll be great. If you can’t print two-sided, you can just print the coloring side and use the info on page two to address a conventional envelope.

Or you can click on the image in this post to get a full-size PNG that you can print and mail to:

Library Society of the World
Attn: Coloring Contest
PO Box 7893
Colorado Springs, CO 80933

On the sheet it says that the deadline is January 1, 2010–let’s extend that to January 15. And NO, I will not take scans, photographs, faxes, etc. You can take the PNG into Photoshop and go nuts with it, but in the end you gotta send me a piece of paper.

* Prizes not guaranteed to be fabulous. Offer void where prohibited by law. Must be 18 or older to enter. Odds of winning depend on number of entries.

In this issue of the LSW zine, you will find photographs, reports from the field, research articles, found poetry, a coloring contest, and various other wonderful things. I’m indebted to all the contributors who made this a very funny and high quality issue:

• Alcorn, Louise
• Crossett, Laura
• Dettmar, Nicole S.
• Fitchett, Deborah
• “K”
• Kennedy, Marie
• Kraus, Joe
• “Meg V.”
• Neff, Joshua M.
• Puckett, Jason
• Randall, Jessy
• Rothman, David
• Steiner, Sarah
• Walker, Cecily
• Walden, Rachel
• Wylie, Nethery

To order, please use the PayPal buttons below. I have copies of Codslap!, the first LSW zine, still available as well. Zines are two dollars each, with shipping being two dollars in North America for up to five zines. If you are outside North America, if you want more than five zines, or if something PayPal-ish doesn’t seem to be working, email me at steve@stevelawson.name.

I will also gladly take cash or (if you insist) a check mailed to PO Box 7893, Colorado Springs CO 80933. If you do that, please don’t put the words “Librarian Bomb” on the envelope, as I don’t think the USPS has a sense of humor about bombs.

Also, let me point out that I have only one coloring contest submission so far. The field is wide open.Order LSW Zines

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.

Everyone (well several people at least) has been asking how they can get their hands on a copy of Codslap! the LSW zine.

Here’s the scoop: you can use the button below to send me US$3.00 to get one copy postage-paid within the US and Canada. Make sure your address is accurate. [Edit: depending on your feed reader, you might have to click through to the website to view/use the PayPal button.]

Or, if you aren’t in the US/Canada or if you want multiple copies, or if you are an old skool zinester and want to mail me cash in an envelope, email me at steve@stevelawson.name and we’ll make it happen.

There are two catches to all this:

1. Aside from the copies I have reserved for contributors, I’m pretty much out of zines.
2. I am going out of town for about a week.

For me, this works out great. The orders can roll in this week, and then I will know how many to print when I get back. For you, this means you will have to wait a while before you can assume the zine is in the mail.

Feel free to email with any questions or leave a comment on this post, but remember I might not reply promptly.