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Write an article, review, or story for Hermetic Library

Interested in writing for Hermetic Library? Now you can!

I am announcing an open and rolling call for you to pitch ideas for submissions to Hermetic Library’s blog, site, private publication for subscription Patrons, or, possibly-maybe-once-and-future, journal!

(If you want to post to the Hrmtc Underground BBS or submit something to the wild & wooly Zine instead, go ahead! There’s no formal submissions process for either of those. What I’m describing here is specifically for publishing to the blog, site, and/or journal.)

I recently created an online form which you can use to submit a pitch for your submission idea. I’d mentioned it in a couple of places, and have it linked on the website and in the sidebar of the library blog, but wanted to make sure I more formally announce it to you here.

You’re probably already familiar with the library and the blog, but if not you should be sure to get an idea of what the library is all about before making a pitch. Consider taking a gander at the submissions guidelines for the Anthology Journal for some general idea of what I thought submissions to that might have looked like. Now that I’m thinking about it, there’s also the contributors’ guidelines in the Caduceus archive you can consider as well.

But, once you’ve got an idea that you feel is right for the library audience, you’re ready to start. You should pitch your idea for a submission!

What happens next, you ask? What’s the process of moving from making a pitch, developing a submission, compensating you, and, finally, publishing your work for the public audience of the library to read? Well, I’m so excited you asked! Let me tell you!

The Pitch

When a pitch comes in, what I plan on doing is posting it to a private forum for my Patrons. I’ll do that to give them a chance to let me know what they think, and if they’re interested in reading the proposed submission. I’ll take their feedback into consideration on whether to accept or reject the pitch, and move forward with the idea as a submission.

If the pitch idea is not accepted, I’ll suggest whether or not to revise the submission for another try. Optionally, the author may consider posting the submission as topic for Discussion on the BBS.

If the pitch is accepted, then I’ll ask the author to submit the article, review or story for consideration.

The Submission

When a submission comes in, what I plan on doing is posting it to a private forum for my Patrons. I’ll do that to give them a chance to let me know what they think about the various merits of the submission. I’ll take their feedback into consideration on whether to accept or reject the pitch, and move forward with compensation for the author and then posting the submission to one of Hermetic Library’s projects.

If the submission is not accepted, I’ll suggest whether or not to revise the submission for another try. Optionally, the author may consider posting to their work as a topic for Discussion on the BBS, or submitting to the Hermetic Library Zine instead.

If the submission is accepted, I’ll move forward with compensating the author. Once I’ve successfully compensated the author for their work, I will then post the the article, review or story for the public to read one of the variety of places I publish.

Compensation

For submissions that are accepted for publication, I happily offer thanks. I’m also delighted to send you a gratis download code for any one of the released anthology albums.

For work accepted through this process, I am currently able to offer an honorarium of up to $50 per successful submission, supported by my generous Patrons.

For established reviewers, I am happy to see about getting a reviewer’s copy sent to you in advance.

Finally, if there’s something else you’ve got in mind, or an idea I’ve not mentioned, let me know!

Rights to Publish

As part of this submission process, creators affirmatively agree to non-exclusively release the information in their pitch for private sharing with those involved in the process in perpetuity.

If an eventual submission is accepted, authors and creators, of course, retain copyright on their work. They will merely affirmatively agree to release their submission non-exclusively for use by the library, granting rights to publicly present the work in perpetuity.

 

If you have any comments, questions, or concerns, do get in touch. Also, if the process seems daunting or there’s some aspect of it that creates difficulty for you in some way, let me know so we can find a way forward that works better for you. Finally, if you’re thinking of something that doesn’t seem to fit what I’ve described here, get in touch and let me know what you’re thinking so we can figure out whether and how we can consider your cool out-of-the-box idea. Go ahead and use the form and fill out as much as you can and I’ll get back to you, or contact me directly.

Current contact information should always be up on Hermetic Library, so you can reach me via email or post.

I look forward to hearing from you, so pitch your idea today! (Besides, you read this far, right? You might as well follow through with a pitch too!)

Updated 5jan2019: Revised to better reflect the current process, and increased available honorarium. The most current information on this will be on the actual form to pitch an idea itself.

One month left for Summer Solstice 2013 Hermetic Library Journal submissions

There’s only one month until the March 21st, 2013 deadline to participate in the inaugural issue of the Hermetic Library Journal from the Benefit Anthology Project! Release is planned for June 21st, 2013. Consider letting others whom you think may be interested know about this as well, but more importantly consider submitting your written and visual work and the various sections for specific submissions. If you have any questions, comments or wish to contribute to this project; contact the librarian.

The Hermetic Library Journal is intended as a place for both practice and theory, not only informed by the other but with the intention of crossing thresholds between scholar and practitioner. The Journal offers a venue for art and culture that both informs and is informed by esotericism, which will bring the artist into the mix. The Journal is a community of intentional work from theoretic, practical and cultural perspectives that explores and relates to written and visual work about or inspired by esotericism and magick in the form of articles, essays, personal narratives, poetry, fiction, plays, artwork, sequential art, biographies, and more.

There are several sections to which you may be interested in submitting work:

· For general written and visual submissions, I will be accepting a wide and diverse range of materials, basically looking for work that is informed by or engages the living Western Esoteric Tradition, Hermeticism, Aleister Crowley’s Thelema and other subject matter at the library. You may also be interested in reading about the completely optional peer-review process, a way to get feedback on general submissions.

· Symposium, or forum, section is an opportunity for readers to write on a topic pre-selected for each issue, which for this issue is Intolerance and Tolerance.

· Kottabos, or letters, section for letters to the editor.

· Agora, or market, section is a place to provide goods and services of relevant interest that will reach the readership.

· Kerukeion, or announcements, section is a place for brief gratis community notices.

For general information, please read the call for submissions and the terms & conditions for submissions. If you have any comments, questions or concerns; or want to submit your work for an anthology, just contact the librarian.

Hermetic Library Journal announcement submissions to the Kerukeion for Summer Solstice 2013

There’s only two months until the March 21st, 2013 deadline to participate in the inaugural issue of the Hermetic Library Journal from the Benefit Anthology Project! Release is planned for June 21st, 2013. Consider letting others whom you think may be interested know about this as well, but consider submitting your written and visual work. If you have any questions, comments or wish to contribute to this project; contact the librarian.

The herald’s staff, in Greek kerukeion, in Latin caduceus, is a synecdoche for the herald, or public crier. In the Journal this Kerukeion will be space for short textual news items and announcements of interest to the community. Messages submitted will be free of cost in publication, but will be subject to reasonable editorial selection.

If you have an announcement or notice that you would like to submit, the Journal will offer some space for the community to reach out to each other without cost. However, notices should be very brief and have some indication of how to find out more about the topic or event mentioned, such as offering a URL.

Read more about the Kerukeion, or announcements, section in the call for submissions and in the Kerukeion section of the submissions guidelines.

For general information, please read the call for submissions and the terms & conditions for submissions. If you have any comments, questions or concerns; or want to submit your work for an anthology, just contact the librarian.

Hermetic Library Journal submissions to the Agora market for Summer Solstice 2013

There’s only two months until the March 21st, 2013 deadline to participate in the inaugural issue of the Hermetic Library Journal from the Benefit Anthology Project! Release is planned for June 21st, 2013. Consider letting others whom you think may be interested know about this as well, but consider submitting your written and visual work. If you have any questions, comments or wish to contribute to this project; contact the librarian.

The commons and marketplace of ancient Hellenic culture. For those interested in reaching the readership of the journal and those wishing to support the library, I will be offering full, half and quarter page spaces for people to provide ads of relevant interest that will reach the readership. I will also be providing some of this space gratis to Hermetic Library fellows, members of the Hermetic Hosting family, and some select others as a way of saying thank you for their ongoing participation and support so they can let people know about their projects.

When placed in print these will be 1/4 page, 1/2 page or full page sizes; and have vertical, horizontal, or square orientations. When presented online, or in other digital formats, be aware that every reasonable effort will be made to maintain the fidelity of the size and format relative to content within the medium, but some variation will be inevitable. Please provide advertisements in high quality, lossless digital files suitable for print such as 600 DPI TIFF or vector format. Also, please provide a destination URL for use when possible in the format of presentation. Placement within each journal will be determined primarily by order of submission, mediated only where necessary to avoid detrimental juxtapositions and so forth.

Read more about the Agora, or market, section in the call for submissions and in the Agora section of the submissions guidelines.

For general information, please read the call for submissions and the terms & conditions for submissions. If you have any comments, questions or concerns; or want to submit your work for an anthology, just contact the librarian.

Hermetic Library Journal letter submissions to the Kottabos for Summer Solstice 2013

There’s only two months until the March 21st, 2013 deadline to participate in the inaugural issue of the Hermetic Library Journal from the Benefit Anthology Project! Release is planned for June 21st, 2013. Consider letting others whom you think may be interested know about this as well, but consider submitting your written and visual work. If you have any questions, comments or wish to contribute to this project; contact the librarian.

The kottabos was a game of skill at ancient symposia which involved dexterously slinging wine at targets. This was, apparently, a popular activity. Part of the skill was in remaining reclined on a couch while knocking the target off balance so that it made a loud bell-like noise when the target disc fell against a larger disc on the stand.

I want to provide a forum for various kinds of feedback whether that’s tossing wine lees across the room, letters to the editor, kudos, criticisms, or comments on content or about any topic. Do you have a story about what the Hermetic Library has meant to you personally, perhaps as a student or researcher? Do you have some particular document on the site that you have a particularly strong response to, one way or the other? And, in future, do you perhaps have a response to something published, written or visual, in a previous issue?

In part inspired by parliamentary rules but also by my recollection of my surprise at how fascinating and erudite Letters to the Editor were in Economist magazine, the Kottabos will be a section where readers address me directly as editor, and not specific people or authors. Generally, these submissions should be 200 words or less, but if you’re particularly interesting or entertaining, greater lengths in the range of 500 words may be risked. Letters to the Editor may be considered for publication and edited without notice.

The Journal, in general, and this section, specifically, is intended to be a hospitable environment where no one ends up in hospital or therapy, including myself. While this Kottabos can provide a place for pithy and piquant statements, but it is not a place to be insulting or rude. I feel I must be clear this Kottabos is not going to be a space to slander, libel, flame or otherwise attack people or points of view; but rather to offer readers an opportunity to offer thoughts and feedback about the journal.

Read more about the Kottabos, or letters, section in the call for submissions and in the Kottabos section of the submissions guidelines.

For general information, please read the call for submissions and the terms & conditions for submissions. If you have any comments, questions or concerns; or want to submit your work for an anthology, just contact the librarian.

Hermetic Library Journal submissions to the Symposium forum for Summer Solstice 2013

There’s only two months until the March 21st, 2013 deadline to participate in the inaugural issue of the Hermetic Library Journal from the Benefit Anthology Project! Release is planned for June 21st, 2013. Consider letting others whom you think may be interested know about this as well, but consider submitting your written and visual work. If you have any questions, comments or wish to contribute to this project; contact the librarian.

The Symposium is an opportunity for readers to write on a topic pre-selected for each issue, which for this issue is Intolerance and Tolerance. Non-fiction and personal narrative is encouraged, but a wide range of personal expression is possible. Submissions to the Symposium may be heavily edited but the creator will be contacted with proposed edits prior to publication, unless this is waived when submitted. Anonymity in publication is available, but not in the submission process, and the name used in publication may be presented in abbreviated or anonymous form at the discretion of the Journal. This is not an opportunity to slander, libel or flame others, so do not do so; and, where speaking of others, names should be changed and indicated to the Journal as such. Also, speak for yourself, your own thoughts and ideas.

The ancient Greek symposium was a social event where celebrants gathered to debate and revel in each other’s company, with various entertainments that included wine, women and song. The use of the word ‘symposium’ in English for events where speeches are made is not exactly what the original events were, but the rhetorical contests and dialogues that have come down to us in ancient Greek literature are the inspiration for that use. I propose something not quite so formal as a modern symposium, but not quite so wild as the ancient event.

Have you ever read the Sun magazine’s “readers write” section? If not, you should check out Snow, their recent theme January 2013 as an example. I’ve long wanted to do something like that, and here’s my chance. I am going to announce a more or less broad suggested theme for each issue of the journal and publish concise and thoughtful reader responses.

The Journal, in general, and this section, specifically, is intended to be a hospitable environment where no one ends up in hospital or therapy, including myself. I feel I must be clear this Symposium is not going to be a space to slander, libel, flame or otherwise attack people or points of view; but rather to offer readers an opportunity to offer personal thoughts and ideas about the specific topic selected.

The theme for this issue’s Symposium, a section of the Journal offering a reader’s forum, is Intolerance and Tolerance. Read more about the idea of the Symposium in the call for submissions and in the Symposium section of the submissions guidelines.

For general information, please read the call for submissions and the terms & conditions for submissions. If you have any comments, questions or concerns; or want to submit your work for an anthology, just contact the librarian.

Hermetic Library Journal general written and visual submissions for Summer Solstice 2013

There’s only two months until the March 21st, 2013 deadline to participate in the inaugural issue of the Hermetic Library Journal from the Benefit Anthology Project! Release is planned for June 21st, 2013. Consider letting others whom you think may be interested know about this as well, but consider submitting your written and visual work. If you have any questions, comments or wish to contribute to this project; contact the librarian.

The Journal is intended as a place for both practice and theory, not only informed by the other but with the intention of crossing thresholds between scholar and practitioner. The Journal offers a venue for art and culture that both informs and is informed by esotericism, which will bring the artist into the mix. The Journal is a community of intentional work from theoretic, practical and cultural perspectives that explores and relates to written work and art about or inspired by esotericism and magick in the form of articles, essays, personal narratives, poetry, fiction, plays, artwork, sequential art, biographies, and more.

For general written and visual submissions, I will be accepting a wide and diverse range of materials, basically looking for things that match with the overall mission and scope of the library. I will be looking for art, essays and articles which speak, but not necessarily directly, to the overall subject matter of the library, which is a pretty broad scope, including, but not limited to, works that relate to the features, fellows, figures, forms and reflections that reside at the library. Also, I will be making no arbitrary upper or lower limits on the content length of written submissions in order to allow as much flexibility as possible, as long as the length serves the piece.

Read more about general written and visual submission in the call for submissions and in the general submission section of the submissions guidelines.

You may also be interested in reading about the completely optional peer-review process, a way to get feedback on general submissions, in the call for submissions or the peer-review process section of the submissions guidelines.

For general information, please read the call for submissions and the terms & conditions for submissions. If you have any comments, questions or concerns; or want to submit your work for an anthology, just contact the librarian.

Hermetic Library Journal deadline for Summer Solstice 2013 in two months

There’s only two months until the March 21st, 2013 deadline to participate in the inaugural issue of the Hermetic Library Journal from the Benefit Anthology Project! Release is planned for June 21st, 2013. Consider letting others whom you think may be interested know about this as well, but consider submitting your written and visual work. If you have any questions, comments or wish to contribute to this project; contact the librarian.

Hermetic Library Journals are biannual, open access collections of newer written and visual works about or inspired by Hermeticism in a broad sense, the Western Esoteric Tradition, and Aleister Crowley’s Thelema. Journals appear online via the Hermetic Library, and may also be offered in a variety of other digital formats and in print.

The Journal is intended as a place for both practice and theory, not only informed by the other but with the intention of crossing thresholds between scholar and practitioner. The Journal offers a venue for art and culture that both informs and is informed by esotericism, which will bring the artist into the mix. The Journal is a community of intentional work from theoretic, practical and cultural perspectives that explores and relates to written work and art about or inspired by esotericism and magick in the form of articles, essays, personal narratives, poetry, fiction, plays, artwork, sequential art, biographies, and more.

The theme for this issue’s Symposium, a section of the Journal offering a reader’s forum, is Intolerance and Tolerance. Read more about the idea of the Symposium in the call for submissions and in the Symposium section of the submissions guidelines.

Please read the call for submissions and the terms & conditions for submissions. If you have any comments, questions or concerns; or want to submit your work for an anthology, just contact the librarian.

The Hermetic Library Anthology Journal

Today I am announcing a new Journal from the Hermetic Library Anthology Project, a biannual, open access collection of newer written and artistic works within the scope of the library, including, but not limited to, Hermeticism in a broad sense, the Western Esoteric Tradition, and Aleister Crowley’s Thelema. The inaugural issue will be Summer Solstice 2013, with a submission deadline on Mar 21st, 2013.

The Hermetic Library at Hermetic.com has an overall vision of Archiving, Engaging and Encouraging the living Western Esoteric Tradition. Beginning in 2011, I started the benefit anthology project to help promote newer works in the Western Esoteric Tradition to the audience of the Hermetic Library and beyond. The anthology project also further raises awareness about the corpus and culture of magick and ritual. The first year of the anthology project was about the development of anthology albums, but I am now going to expand this project to the creation of anthology journals planned for release biannually at each solstice.

I will be accepting a wide and diverse range of materials, basically looking for things that match with the overall mission and scope of the library. I will be looking for art, essays and articles which speak, but not necessarily directly, to the overall subject matter of the library, which is a pretty broad scope, including, but not limited to, works that relate to the features, fellows, figures, forms and reflections that reside at the library. Also, I will be making no arbitrary upper or lower limits on the content length of written submissions in order to allow as much flexibility as possible, as long as the length serves the piece. I’m also going to describe several specific journal sections separately below as well.

This will be an online open access journal that will be available at no cost to the reader, but I may, and hope to, also publish the journal in a variety of digital and physical editions for people interested in having those.

 

Summer Solstice 2013

This is the call for submissions to the Summer Solstice 2013 issue. Deadline for submissions is Mar 21th, 2013 and release planned for Jun 21, 2013 around Summer Solstice.

Be sure to read through the terms and conditions for submissions to an anthology journal (which includes quite a bit of specific information about the journal and the submissions process), and after that if you have any questions, comments or wish to contribute to this project; contact the librarian.

Please consider joining the Hermetic Library in publishing your work by contributing to the benefit anthology project. While the journal will be open access and available online at no cost to readers, all proceeds from the sale of other formats, such as print and select digital forms, will support the library to help cover Journal production, hosting costs, materials acquisitions, and other expenses. So, in addition to promoting and making available new works, this project will help the library carry on effort to fulfill its mission.

 

Special Features of the Journal

In addition to the primary composition of the Journal from the general written and artistic submissions, there will be a few specialized ideas that I’d like to mention, including a symposium, kottabos, agora, kerukeion, and optional peer-review. Since these are specific ideas, I want to talk about each of these a little bit in turn.

Symposium (Forum)

The ancient Greek symposium was a social event where celebrants gathered to debate and revel in each other’s company, with various entertainments that included wine, women and song. The use of the word ‘symposium’ in English for events where speeches are made is not exactly what the original events were, but the rhetorical contests and dialogues that have come down to us in ancient Greek literature are the inspiration for that use. I propose something not quite so formal as a modern symposium, but not quite so wild as the ancient event.

Have you ever read the Sun magazine’s “readers write” section? If not, you should check that out. I’ve long wanted to do something like that, and here’s my chance. I am going to announce a more or less broad suggested theme for each issue of the journal and publish concise and thoughtful reader responses.

The theme for Summer Solstice 2013 is Intolerance and Tolerance. So, we are going to have a discourse on this topic. Let us propitiate Agathos Daimon with a few drops of wine that we may have a hospitable and entertaining time together, and with luck find ourselves able to share some collective wisdom.

This topic was inspired by a pair of quotes, one more often quoted than the other, from the work of Aleister Crowley in the collection of the library. While these quotes are both from Aleister Crowley, there is absolutely no intentional limitation on responses to just the scope of Aleister Crowley or Thelema, but rather I offer these as stepping off points for you to consider if you want some further inspiration than just the theme itself.

“Intolerance is evidence of impotence.” — Aleister Crowley, Confessions, Chapter 69

“We are infinitely tolerant, save of intolerance.” — Aleister Crowley’s New Comment on Liber AL vel Legis, II:57

You may be interested in a site search on the keyword tolerance as well.

In future, I may not offer anything more than just the theme itself, and leave the rest to you, the reader, to explore. Also, while these themes will be for a Symposium, it is not the theme for an entire issue, except that if people want to submit longer work related to the theme that’s perfectly acceptable and might, moreover, be fun to do.

Kottabos (Letters)

The kottabos was a game of skill at ancient symposia which involved dexterously slinging wine at targets. This was, apparently, a popular activity. Part of the skill was in remaining reclined on a couch while knocking the target off balance so that it made a loud bell-like noise when the target disc fell against a larger disc on the stand.

I want to provide a forum for various kinds of feedback whether that’s tossing wine lees across the room, letters to the editor, kudos, criticisms, or comments on content or about any topic. In part inspired by parliamentary rules but also by my recollection of my surprise at how fascinating and erudite Letters to the Editor were in Economist magazine, the Kottabos will be a section where readers address me directly as editor, and not specific people or authors.

I hope to maintain the Journal, in general, and this section, specifically, as a hospitable environment where no one ends up in hospital or therapy, including myself. While this Kottabos can provide a place for pithy and piquant statements, it is not a place to be insulting or rude. I feel I must be clear this Kottabos is not going to be a space to slander, libel, flame or otherwise attack people or points of view; but rather to offer readers an opportunity to share their own thoughts and feedback about the journal.

Agora (Market)

The commons and marketplace of ancient Hellenic culture. I will be offering full, half and quarter page spaces for people to provide ads of relevant interest that will reach the readership. I will also be providing some of this space gratis to Hermetic Library fellows, members of the Hermetic Hosting family, and some select others as a way of saying thank you for their ongoing participation and support so they can let people know about their projects.

Kerukeion (Announcements)

The herald’s staff, in Greek kerukeion, in Latin caduceus, is a synecdoche for the herald, or public crier. In the Journal this Kerukeion will be space for short textual news items and announcements of interest to the community. Messages submitted will be free of cost in publication, but will be subject to reasonable editorial selection.

Optional peer-review

I do not currently have a good mechanism for adding unsolicited material into the collection at the library and have occasionally and regretfully declined to offer a place in the collection to unsolicited work sent me as the librarian of the site. I’ve long tried to think of a good mechanism to put in place that would be more amenable to adding materials I haven’t solicited. But, I haven’t yet figured out how to do that in a way that I find acceptable.

For other kinds of work, I do have the various pools for visual, video, audio and even a new arts & letters pool from which I post submissions to the blog. However, none of these are really for long form or in-depth work that might be included in the collection of the library itself, which I feel I must have some peer review process in place to do well, especially for topics about which I might not personally be as familiar as required for proper evaluation. I’ve kept trying to think of a good workflow for such things which I hoped included some kind of peer review process, but just haven’t been able to sort that out yet. Ultimately this has remained stubbornly something for the future. Up to now, while I’ve been open to discuss submissions before having them sent, to do due diligence on whether there is a fit and so forth, the current situation is that I’ve not really accepted unsolicited manuscripts.

Meanwhile, I also want to offer a way to provide more direct and constructive feedback to submissions sent to the Journal. On one level I see this as being useful for more academic submissions, but I can also see that there would be a lot of use for this process as it relates to feedback on submitted work, written or otherwise, of all kinds.

To these ends, I am going to offer a completely optional and experimental peer-review process for submissions to the Journal. This optional process will involve a peer-review fee in order to incentivize reviewers, but I think this process will be a good balance between the logistics of offering it and value for people who want to participate.

Under the general submissions process, work submitted to the Journal will receive a simple binary response of either accepted for publication or rejected. However, if a submission is also being peer-reviewed, there will be a range of responses including Accept, Revise, Reject and Revise, Reject, where each includes feedback from the reviewer about the reason for the response and constructive suggestions that would not be offered otherwise.

I should also stress that the optional peer-review process will not, in any way, guarantee publication of a work. Peer-review is an opportunity for review, but it is not a way to secure publication. Also, this optional peer-review process will only be available up front and cannot be added to submissions, to receive either feedback or chance to revise, after the fact of an editorial decision to reject for publication. However, with that said, I imagine that the peer-review process may allow the Journal to accept materials which would otherwise have been rejected by offering a chance to revise submissions or by allowing someone outside the library to vouch for the submission when their expertise is added to the process.

There are more specifics about this peer-review option on the terms and conditions for submissions to an anthology journal page.

 

Conclusion

As a penultimate note, I want to be sure I also mention here in passing Hermetic Library Anthology Album call for Winter 2013 submissions and 2013 anthology album artwork and design call for proposals which I posted earlier. In addition to submissions to the upcoming Winter 2013 album, I am looking for an artist or artists to create the various illustrations needed for the cover and other collateral such as the physical CD design for the artwork and design of the quarterly anthology albums for this next year.

Finally, be sure to stay tuned to this blog and the anthology pages on the site for updates. Please join the Hermetic Library in promoting these journals and the contributors to the benefit anthology project. If you have any questions, comments or wish to contribute to this project; contact the librarian.