Through events like the annual Eaton Conference, the collection seeks to continue opening access by a combination of mixed public and scholarly activities in order to simultaneously foster fan enthusiasm and increase academic consideration, not least because they are often so tightly linked.
Lee, Regina Yung. 2011. “Textual Evidence of Fandom Activities: The Fanzine Holdings at UC Riverside’s Eaton Collection.” In “Fan Works and Fan Communities in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” edited by Nancy Reagin and Anne Rubenstein, special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 6. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2011.0271.
Then, does this assume, that the archival process itself can bring the fan enthusiasm and academic consideration closer in itself?