April 6, 2006

To preserve and make available more widely access to the contents of ChickenBones: A Journal (www.nathanielturner.com), I have agreed to allow the Library of Congress to collect content from our web site  to "make this collection available to researchers onsite at Library facilities" and to make it  "available to offsite researchers by hosting the collection on the Library's public access Web site." This agreement was made with no stipulations other than that which is found below in their statement.

Our website contains short stories, folklore, essays, sermons, a play, letters, reports, poems, emails, discussions, reviews, etc.  -- Rudy

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To Whom It May Concern:

The United States Library of Congress has selected your Web site for inclusion in its historic collections of Internet materials. The Library's traditional functions, acquiring, cataloging, preserving and serving collection materials of historical importance to the Congress and the American people to foster education and scholarship, extend to digital materials, including Web sites. We request your permission to collect your Web site and add it to the Library's research collections. We also ask that we be allowed to display the archived version(s) of your Web site.

The following URL has been selected: www.nathanielturner.com

With your permission, the Library of Congress or its agent will engage in the collection of content from your Web site at regular intervals over time. The Library will make this collection available to researchers onsite at Library facilities.

The Library also wishes to make the collection available to offsite researchers by hosting the collection on the Library's public access Web site.  The Library hopes that you share its vision of preserving materials and permitting researchers from across the world to access them.

If you agree to permit the Library to collect your Web site, please click the following link to signify your consent. This link also includes a separate consent for permitting the Library to provide offsite access to your materials through the Library's Web site.

http://www.loc.gov/minerva/display_crawl_acceptance.php?id=ODc2MTY=&pos=d3d3Lm5hdGhhbmllbHR1cm5lci5jb20=&con=IHJ1ZG9scGhsZXdpc0Bob3RtYWlsLmNvbQ==&tc=U2luZ2xlIFNpdGU=

For several years, the Library of Congress has collected Web sites within certain themes or topics, and we were required to seek permission for each new collection developed by the Library, even if permission had been granted in the past. As our collections have grown, we have had to contact some Web site producers repeatedly. To reduce this duplication and to save site owners from having to respond to multiple requests for information, we are now requesting blanket permissions for the Library to collect, over time and in varying frequency, sites of research interest. If you grant blanket permissions and in the future you no longer wish to be included in the Library's Web archives, please contact us and we will cease collection of your URL.

Please respond to this request at your earliest convenience so that we may add this URL to the Library's research collection. We appreciate your cooperation with our efforts to preserve these Internet materials.

 If you have questions, comments or recommendations concerning the Library of Congress's Web Archives, please e-mail the Library's Web Capture team at webcapture@loc.gov  at your earliest convenience. For more information about other Web Archive collections please visit http://www.loc.gov/minerva .

 Thank You,

Web Capture Team

Library of Congress

Washington, D.C.

webcapture@loc.gov

http://www.loc.gov

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That's good news, Rudy, and an indication of the value of the site to researchers. Miriam

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Dear Rudy, Congratulations.  Let those who have been most unkind to you now grow post-Katrina green with regrets. Peace and brotherhood, Jerry

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Congratulations Rudy, You work hard on Chickenbones, and it deserves to be preserved. -- Latorial

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Another reason I say keep the faith and do – lmsekou

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Congrats  -- Kam

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I'm proud of how far ChickenBones has come. I know you are proud as well. Be blessed  -- Yvonne

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Hello Rudy my brother, Congratulations to you on being included in the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. That is a unique form of appreciation for Chickenbones Online Magazine, making Chickbones an official  standout example of an excellent and outstanding online magazine.

Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd, http://www.geocities.com/journeytothemotherland/index.html

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Good day, Rudy, Congratulations on having your website chosen for inclusion in the Library of Congress network. This is certainly an acknowledgement of the importance of the materials you have been providing  up until now. It will also make these materials more widely diffused. I am not sure if this means a new surge of visitors directly to your own site but I presume it will, surpassing the impressive number of viewers you have already.

Best wishes for this new honor. Fr. Zilonka

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Congratulations!!!!

Fred D. Mason, Jr.
President
Maryland State and District of Columbia AFL-CIO
7 School Street
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
(410) 269-1940 ext. 14
(301) 261-1400 ext. 14
fmason@mddcaflcio.org

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Good move. Slwest

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EXCELLENT FOR YOU AND FOR WORK WELL DONE OVER THE YEARS BY YOU. – Mackie

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Hey now Rudy, Heartfelt congratulations Rudy on this GREAT NEWS!  Your earnest and sincere work is being recognized.  Wonderful news!

Have been traveling a LOT!  Have slept in my own bed very little as a result.  Will forward the flyer of where I am (BR) and for what.  Yeah You!  Continued good fortune in all you do.

Red Beans and Ricely Thankful and Hopeful, -- Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa Saloy, Ph.D., MFA
Visiting Associate Professor of English
University of Washington (Seattle)

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Well Done,  Rudy glad to see the recognition due your website. Peace and Love, Buggy

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EXCELLENT!!!!!  I didn't realize that they invited scholars to become part of their archives!  -- Jennifer

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Hey Rudy! I've been wondering how you've been, and apologize for not staying in touch. School has gotten hectic, blah blah! How are you? Looks like you've moved up to the next level with this phase! How did this come about?? anyway, it's great that more perspectives of the Black and "minority" experience will be more accessible to those who are interested.  best wishes  cynthia

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posted 7 July 2006  / updated 13 October 2007