Calling all contributors to A Month of Softies…

Due to a bizarre (and frankly, a very very exciting) situation where the National Library of Australia has requested to archive loobylu.com in their databases because it is an “electronic publication… of lasting cultural value” I must seek your permission as a contributor to allow your work to be archived along with it in the Month of Softies gallery. Because there is no easier way to do this, please email me ASAP if you would prefer your work not to be archived and I will make sure that it is taken out of the gallery for future archiving.

34 Responses to “Calling all contributors to A Month of Softies…”

  1. kathreen says:

    WOW! that is very exciting. How did it happen? and congratulations.
    kathreen

  2. lisaC says:

    WOW! Congratulations, on being of lasting cultural value! very exciting indeed!
    Lisa

  3. Bec says:

    Congrats! That really rocks!

  4. kerrie says:

    That is really exciting, Woo Hoo!

  5. Sandra says:

    O yep – can easily see why and how that has happened – congratulations and well done to everyone and a big thank you to Claire for making it possible!

  6. Fiona says:

    Wow. That’s very, very cool. Congratulations!

  7. Congratulation, and I wish that the “softies” continue a long time! it is so pleasant to think of this project.

  8. Lou says:

    God bless librarians!
    (I’m a little bias)
    This is excellent news

  9. carine says:

    congratulations!
    and i don¬¥t see any kind of problem with it…
    be free to do it.

    kissies and hugs
    carine

  10. krissy says:

    WOW! That is great stuff, how exciting.

  11. Jo says:

    Gooo Loobylu! It’s not easy to get on Pandora – they are very selective! ;-) Congrats!

  12. jac says:

    Congratulations on being of lasting cultural value! I can safely say that’s the first time I’ve ever said that :)

  13. norbu says:

    Soooooooooo exciting*
    Well Done Wonder* I haven’t managed to get ANY softies done yet but if I did you would be free to include me*
    Hope to see you soon and hear all about your house tales
    Blessings
    norbu

  14. raquel says:

    i’m okay with it :) feel free to do it with my monster

  15. carly says:

    Yah for you! archive away. I dont think you will get any objections there. I wonder what the kids of tomorrow will think of all our crazy softies??

  16. laura says:

    Hey Claire, that’s fantastic! Congratulations. I am really pleased for you, and also more generally since recognition like this helps reinforce the value of the kind of blogging that you have been doing so generously and well all this time. I sometimes get a bit despondent at the amount of nonsense attention paid to the male poli-bloggers like Tim Blair, while people like you are seldom acknowledged as making influential contributions to public life. So it’s really excellent news!

    Be sure and let us know how it goes with the allen key, too…..

  17. maria says:

    that is wonderful! it’s good to hear they are figuring out how to recognize people who are blogging in a lasting way! i have always thought that if we got a bunch of librarians together they would save the world! congratulations. mav

  18. *jenny says:

    Sweet! How cool to be considered to have lasting cultural value!

  19. Silus Grok says:

    Congratulations, Claire!

  20. anja says:

    Well done!!!

  21. Melisa says:

    Congrats! BTW, when does the April gallery go up? I’m anxious to see all the monsters!

  22. Bertha says:

    Wow, this is really exciting! If there is anyone out there in the blogworld who deserves this, it’s you Claire. Fantastic!

  23. Katy. says:

    Congrats Claire! Its great that such a cool site will be saved and easily available to people to see for a long, long time..

    Not as easy to get to, but equally interesting, are the Internet Wayback Machine archives of Loobylu.. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.loobylu.com

  24. Kim says:

    Yay! Congratulations — how exciting!!

  25. laura r. says:

    awesome!
    kudos to you!

  26. Hello There says:

    Could your life get any more adorable and interesting? That’s exciting news indeed. So all those softies are going to be archived forever! Including the self-portrait softie by Adam (is that his name?) that’s an adorable little monster! Sooooo special, Claire!

  27. button says:

    Woah – well done! Who wouldn’t want to be archived?!! Yay! That is a real achievement, so exciting Claire :P

  28. Rosa Pomar says:

    Congratulations, Claire!!

  29. dani says:

    dearest claire!

    well done! so well done! you must feel very proud. enjoy enjoy!!

  30. Snowbear says:

    Culture away!
    Congrats!

  31. Angelica says:

    that’s great! :]

    and I cant wait to see all the monsters :]

  32. Rina says:

    Amazing! What a proud moment.

  33. natascha says:

    That’s a great new!! Congratulations!!

  34. tsai-fi says:

    Congrats! That is super cool. I am proud to be archived among the many talented Softies contributers!!