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.
Responses
9th May 2005 at 3:52 pm
WOW! Congratulations, on being of lasting cultural value! very exciting indeed!
Lisa
9th May 2005 at 5:12 pm
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!
9th May 2005 at 5:32 pm
Congratulation, and I wish that the “softies” continue a long time! it is so pleasant to think of this project.
9th May 2005 at 6:44 pm
God bless librarians!
(I’m a little bias)
This is excellent news
9th May 2005 at 7:07 pm
congratulations!
and i don¬¥t see any kind of problem with it…
be free to do it.
kissies and hugs
carine
9th May 2005 at 8:45 pm
Gooo Loobylu! It’s not easy to get on Pandora - they are very selective! 
Congrats!
9th May 2005 at 9:30 pm
Congratulations on being of lasting cultural value! I can safely say that’s the first time I’ve ever said that 
9th May 2005 at 9:59 pm
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
9th May 2005 at 10:15 pm
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??
9th May 2005 at 10:22 pm
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…..
9th May 2005 at 10:28 pm
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
9th May 2005 at 11:17 pm
Sweet! How cool to be considered to have lasting cultural value!
9th May 2005 at 11:49 pm
Congratulations, Claire!
10th May 2005 at 2:06 am
Congrats! BTW, when does the April gallery go up? I’m anxious to see all the monsters!
10th May 2005 at 2:19 am
Wow, this is really exciting! If there is anyone out there in the blogworld who deserves this, it’s you Claire. Fantastic!
10th May 2005 at 3:42 am
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
10th May 2005 at 7:31 am
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!
10th May 2005 at 9:38 am
Woah - well done! Who wouldn’t want to be archived?!! Yay! That is a real achievement, so exciting Claire 
10th May 2005 at 9:55 am
dearest claire!
well done! so well done! you must feel very proud. enjoy enjoy!!
10th May 2005 at 3:48 pm
that’s great! :]
and I cant wait to see all the monsters :]
10th May 2005 at 5:40 pm
Amazing! What a proud moment.
11th May 2005 at 11:48 am
Congrats! That is super cool. I am proud to be archived among the many talented Softies contributers!!
9th May 2005 at 3:48 pm
WOW! that is very exciting. How did it happen? and congratulations.
kathreen