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EDITOR's NOTE. NABOKV-L thanks those subscribers who have come forward to assist
ZEMBLA, the Nabokov web site run by Jeff Edmunds
<http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/nsintro.htm>. The award-winning site
is an extensive source of information for both the Nabokov scholar and and for all
lovers of Nabokov works. I encourage all of you to take advantage of this marvelous
resource and to offer it your further support.
D. Barton Johnson, Editor, NABOKV-L
>
>
>
> From Jeff Edmunds <jhe@psulias.psu.edu>:
>
> My apologies for the length of this post.
>
> On December 13 of last year, Don Johnson posted to this list a call for
> support for ZEMBLA that originally appeared in the News section of the
> site. Many people responded to the call, some with offers of support, some
> with questions. Several potential supporters were concerned that their
> contributions be directed exclusively to support the site, rather than to
> general collection or program funds of the University Libraries of Penn
> State, who have generously hosted ZEMBLA since its creation over five years
> ago.
>
> In response to these concerns, the University Libraries have established
> the Nabokov Program Endowment for the expressed purpose of supporting the
> site. Once fully endowed, the fund will ensure a modest annual budget for
> ZEMBLA and allow improvements and additions to the site that otherwise
> would not be possible: upgraded servers to allow more and faster access to
> sound and video files, improved search and database capabilities, and
> ideally the inclusion of primary texts, to name but three. In the course of
> its first five years, ZEMBLA has had no materials budget whatsoever. Any
> purchases of soft- or hardware were made by me. I am no longer in a
> position to support the site single-handedly.
>
> The Libraries' minimum for an endowment is $10,000. A generous fan of the
> site came forward and offered $500.00 toward this total if I could find 19
> other similarly generous Nabokophiles. Donations of smaller amounts are of
> course possible, and will be accepted with deep appreciation.
>
> If the $10,000 total is not reached, all monies received will be disbursed
> over time for upgrades to ZEMBLA. Funding an endowment is preferable to
> simply accepting and spending donations because an endowment will secure an
> annual budget for the site from the income generated by investment of the
> endowment principal, which remains intact.
>
> All contributions to the endowment are tax deductible as allowed by US tax
> law.
>
> In closing, a personal note. As the overseer of ZEMBLA, I have invested
> thousands of dollars and thousands of hours in the site. My goal has always
> been to make it worthy of the man whose work it celebrates. In recent
> months, due partially to rapid advances in technology and my own chronic
> impecuniousness, the site has become static. I am simply uable to realize
> what I envision under current financial constraints. The Nabokov Program
> Endowment will allow me to continue to build a web site worthy of Nabokov's
> incomparable achievement.
>
> Please contact me directly at jhe@psulias.psu.edu for information about how
> to contribute.
>
> To those of you who have already made donations, thank you.
>
> Jeff Edmunds
in various ways.
Jeff Edmunds wrote:
> This message was originally submitted by jhe@PSULIAS.PSU.EDU to the NABOKV-L
> list at LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU. If you simply forward it back to the list, using a
> mail command that generates "Resent-" fields (ask your local user support or
> consult the documentation of your mail program if in doubt), it will be
> distributed and the explanations you are now reading will be removed
> automatically. If on the other hand you edit the contributions you receive into
> a digest, you will have to remove this paragraph manually. Finally, you should
> be able to contact the author of this message by using the normal "reply"
> function of your mail program.
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (57 lines) ------------------
> From Jeff Edmunds <jhe@psulias.psu.edu>:
>
> My apologies for the length of this post.
>
> On December 13 of last year, Don Johnson posted to this list a call for
> support for ZEMBLA that originally appeared in the News section of the
> site. Many people responded to the call, some with offers of support, some
> with questions. Several potential supporters were concerned that their
> contributions be directed exclusively to support the site, rather than to
> general collection or program funds of the University Libraries of Penn
> State, who have generously hosted ZEMBLA since its creation over five years
> ago.
>
> In response to these concerns, the University Libraries have established
> the Nabokov Program Endowment for the expressed purpose of supporting the
> site. Once fully endowed, the fund will ensure a modest annual budget for
> ZEMBLA and allow improvements and additions to the site that otherwise
> would not be possible: upgraded servers to allow more and faster access to
> sound and video files, improved search and database capabilities, and
> ideally the inclusion of primary texts, to name but three. In the course of
> its first five years, ZEMBLA has had no materials budget whatsoever. Any
> purchases of soft- or hardware were made by me. I am no longer in a
> position to support the site single-handedly.
>
> The Libraries' minimum for an endowment is $10,000. A generous fan of the
> site came forward and offered $500.00 toward this total if I could find 19
> other similarly generous Nabokophiles. Donations of smaller amounts are of
> course possible, and will be accepted with deep appreciation.
>
> If the $10,000 total is not reached, all monies received will be disbursed
> over time for upgrades to ZEMBLA. Funding an endowment is preferable to
> simply accepting and spending donations because an endowment will secure an
> annual budget for the site from the income generated by investment of the
> endowment principal, which remains intact.
>
> All contributions to the endowment are tax deductible as allowed by US tax
> law.
>
> In closing, a personal note. As the overseer of ZEMBLA, I have invested
> thousands of dollars and thousands of hours in the site. My goal has always
> been to make it worthy of the man whose work it celebrates. In recent
> months, due partially to rapid advances in technology and my own chronic
> impecuniousness, the site has become static. I am simply uable to realize
> what I envision under current financial constraints. The Nabokov Program
> Endowment will allow me to continue to build a web site worthy of Nabokov's
> incomparable achievement.
>
> Please contact me directly at jhe@psulias.psu.edu for information about how
> to contribute.
>
> To those of you who have already made donations, thank you.
>
> Jeff Edmunds
>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (57 lines) ------------------
> From Jeff Edmunds <jhe@psulias.psu.edu>:
>
> My apologies for the length of this post.
>
> On December 13 of last year, Don Johnson posted to this list a call for
> support for ZEMBLA that originally appeared in the News section of the
> site. Many people responded to the call, some with offers of support, some
> with questions. Several potential supporters were concerned that their
> contributions be directed exclusively to support the site, rather than to
> general collection or program funds of the University Libraries of Penn
> State, who have generously hosted ZEMBLA since its creation over five years
> ago.
>
> In response to these concerns, the University Libraries have established
> the Nabokov Program Endowment for the expressed purpose of supporting the
> site. Once fully endowed, the fund will ensure a modest annual budget for
> ZEMBLA and allow improvements and additions to the site that otherwise
> would not be possible: upgraded servers to allow more and faster access to
> sound and video files, improved search and database capabilities, and
> ideally the inclusion of primary texts, to name but three. In the course of
> its first five years, ZEMBLA has had no materials budget whatsoever. Any
> purchases of soft- or hardware were made by me. I am no longer in a
> position to support the site single-handedly.
>
> The Libraries' minimum for an endowment is $10,000. A generous fan of the
> site came forward and offered $500.00 toward this total if I could find 19
> other similarly generous Nabokophiles. Donations of smaller amounts are of
> course possible, and will be accepted with deep appreciation.
>
> If the $10,000 total is not reached, all monies received will be disbursed
> over time for upgrades to ZEMBLA. Funding an endowment is preferable to
> simply accepting and spending donations because an endowment will secure an
> annual budget for the site from the income generated by investment of the
> endowment principal, which remains intact.
>
> All contributions to the endowment are tax deductible as allowed by US tax
> law.
>
> In closing, a personal note. As the overseer of ZEMBLA, I have invested
> thousands of dollars and thousands of hours in the site. My goal has always
> been to make it worthy of the man whose work it celebrates. In recent
> months, due partially to rapid advances in technology and my own chronic
> impecuniousness, the site has become static. I am simply uable to realize
> what I envision under current financial constraints. The Nabokov Program
> Endowment will allow me to continue to build a web site worthy of Nabokov's
> incomparable achievement.
>
> Please contact me directly at jhe@psulias.psu.edu for information about how
> to contribute.
>
> To those of you who have already made donations, thank you.
>
> Jeff Edmunds
ZEMBLA, the Nabokov web site run by Jeff Edmunds
<http://www.libraries.psu.edu/iasweb/nabokov/nsintro.htm>. The award-winning site
is an extensive source of information for both the Nabokov scholar and and for all
lovers of Nabokov works. I encourage all of you to take advantage of this marvelous
resource and to offer it your further support.
D. Barton Johnson, Editor, NABOKV-L
>
>
>
> From Jeff Edmunds <jhe@psulias.psu.edu>:
>
> My apologies for the length of this post.
>
> On December 13 of last year, Don Johnson posted to this list a call for
> support for ZEMBLA that originally appeared in the News section of the
> site. Many people responded to the call, some with offers of support, some
> with questions. Several potential supporters were concerned that their
> contributions be directed exclusively to support the site, rather than to
> general collection or program funds of the University Libraries of Penn
> State, who have generously hosted ZEMBLA since its creation over five years
> ago.
>
> In response to these concerns, the University Libraries have established
> the Nabokov Program Endowment for the expressed purpose of supporting the
> site. Once fully endowed, the fund will ensure a modest annual budget for
> ZEMBLA and allow improvements and additions to the site that otherwise
> would not be possible: upgraded servers to allow more and faster access to
> sound and video files, improved search and database capabilities, and
> ideally the inclusion of primary texts, to name but three. In the course of
> its first five years, ZEMBLA has had no materials budget whatsoever. Any
> purchases of soft- or hardware were made by me. I am no longer in a
> position to support the site single-handedly.
>
> The Libraries' minimum for an endowment is $10,000. A generous fan of the
> site came forward and offered $500.00 toward this total if I could find 19
> other similarly generous Nabokophiles. Donations of smaller amounts are of
> course possible, and will be accepted with deep appreciation.
>
> If the $10,000 total is not reached, all monies received will be disbursed
> over time for upgrades to ZEMBLA. Funding an endowment is preferable to
> simply accepting and spending donations because an endowment will secure an
> annual budget for the site from the income generated by investment of the
> endowment principal, which remains intact.
>
> All contributions to the endowment are tax deductible as allowed by US tax
> law.
>
> In closing, a personal note. As the overseer of ZEMBLA, I have invested
> thousands of dollars and thousands of hours in the site. My goal has always
> been to make it worthy of the man whose work it celebrates. In recent
> months, due partially to rapid advances in technology and my own chronic
> impecuniousness, the site has become static. I am simply uable to realize
> what I envision under current financial constraints. The Nabokov Program
> Endowment will allow me to continue to build a web site worthy of Nabokov's
> incomparable achievement.
>
> Please contact me directly at jhe@psulias.psu.edu for information about how
> to contribute.
>
> To those of you who have already made donations, thank you.
>
> Jeff Edmunds
in various ways.
Jeff Edmunds wrote:
> This message was originally submitted by jhe@PSULIAS.PSU.EDU to the NABOKV-L
> list at LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU. If you simply forward it back to the list, using a
> mail command that generates "Resent-" fields (ask your local user support or
> consult the documentation of your mail program if in doubt), it will be
> distributed and the explanations you are now reading will be removed
> automatically. If on the other hand you edit the contributions you receive into
> a digest, you will have to remove this paragraph manually. Finally, you should
> be able to contact the author of this message by using the normal "reply"
> function of your mail program.
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (57 lines) ------------------
> From Jeff Edmunds <jhe@psulias.psu.edu>:
>
> My apologies for the length of this post.
>
> On December 13 of last year, Don Johnson posted to this list a call for
> support for ZEMBLA that originally appeared in the News section of the
> site. Many people responded to the call, some with offers of support, some
> with questions. Several potential supporters were concerned that their
> contributions be directed exclusively to support the site, rather than to
> general collection or program funds of the University Libraries of Penn
> State, who have generously hosted ZEMBLA since its creation over five years
> ago.
>
> In response to these concerns, the University Libraries have established
> the Nabokov Program Endowment for the expressed purpose of supporting the
> site. Once fully endowed, the fund will ensure a modest annual budget for
> ZEMBLA and allow improvements and additions to the site that otherwise
> would not be possible: upgraded servers to allow more and faster access to
> sound and video files, improved search and database capabilities, and
> ideally the inclusion of primary texts, to name but three. In the course of
> its first five years, ZEMBLA has had no materials budget whatsoever. Any
> purchases of soft- or hardware were made by me. I am no longer in a
> position to support the site single-handedly.
>
> The Libraries' minimum for an endowment is $10,000. A generous fan of the
> site came forward and offered $500.00 toward this total if I could find 19
> other similarly generous Nabokophiles. Donations of smaller amounts are of
> course possible, and will be accepted with deep appreciation.
>
> If the $10,000 total is not reached, all monies received will be disbursed
> over time for upgrades to ZEMBLA. Funding an endowment is preferable to
> simply accepting and spending donations because an endowment will secure an
> annual budget for the site from the income generated by investment of the
> endowment principal, which remains intact.
>
> All contributions to the endowment are tax deductible as allowed by US tax
> law.
>
> In closing, a personal note. As the overseer of ZEMBLA, I have invested
> thousands of dollars and thousands of hours in the site. My goal has always
> been to make it worthy of the man whose work it celebrates. In recent
> months, due partially to rapid advances in technology and my own chronic
> impecuniousness, the site has become static. I am simply uable to realize
> what I envision under current financial constraints. The Nabokov Program
> Endowment will allow me to continue to build a web site worthy of Nabokov's
> incomparable achievement.
>
> Please contact me directly at jhe@psulias.psu.edu for information about how
> to contribute.
>
> To those of you who have already made donations, thank you.
>
> Jeff Edmunds
>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (57 lines) ------------------
> From Jeff Edmunds <jhe@psulias.psu.edu>:
>
> My apologies for the length of this post.
>
> On December 13 of last year, Don Johnson posted to this list a call for
> support for ZEMBLA that originally appeared in the News section of the
> site. Many people responded to the call, some with offers of support, some
> with questions. Several potential supporters were concerned that their
> contributions be directed exclusively to support the site, rather than to
> general collection or program funds of the University Libraries of Penn
> State, who have generously hosted ZEMBLA since its creation over five years
> ago.
>
> In response to these concerns, the University Libraries have established
> the Nabokov Program Endowment for the expressed purpose of supporting the
> site. Once fully endowed, the fund will ensure a modest annual budget for
> ZEMBLA and allow improvements and additions to the site that otherwise
> would not be possible: upgraded servers to allow more and faster access to
> sound and video files, improved search and database capabilities, and
> ideally the inclusion of primary texts, to name but three. In the course of
> its first five years, ZEMBLA has had no materials budget whatsoever. Any
> purchases of soft- or hardware were made by me. I am no longer in a
> position to support the site single-handedly.
>
> The Libraries' minimum for an endowment is $10,000. A generous fan of the
> site came forward and offered $500.00 toward this total if I could find 19
> other similarly generous Nabokophiles. Donations of smaller amounts are of
> course possible, and will be accepted with deep appreciation.
>
> If the $10,000 total is not reached, all monies received will be disbursed
> over time for upgrades to ZEMBLA. Funding an endowment is preferable to
> simply accepting and spending donations because an endowment will secure an
> annual budget for the site from the income generated by investment of the
> endowment principal, which remains intact.
>
> All contributions to the endowment are tax deductible as allowed by US tax
> law.
>
> In closing, a personal note. As the overseer of ZEMBLA, I have invested
> thousands of dollars and thousands of hours in the site. My goal has always
> been to make it worthy of the man whose work it celebrates. In recent
> months, due partially to rapid advances in technology and my own chronic
> impecuniousness, the site has become static. I am simply uable to realize
> what I envision under current financial constraints. The Nabokov Program
> Endowment will allow me to continue to build a web site worthy of Nabokov's
> incomparable achievement.
>
> Please contact me directly at jhe@psulias.psu.edu for information about how
> to contribute.
>
> To those of you who have already made donations, thank you.
>
> Jeff Edmunds