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Half a century ago, Belgian Zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans first codified cryptozoology in his book On the Track of Unknown Animals.

The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) are still on the track, and have been since 1992. But as if chasing unknown animals wasn't enough, we are involved in education, conservation, and good old-fashioned natural history! We already have three journals, the largest cryptozoological publishing house in the world, CFZtv, and the largest cryptozoological conference in the English-speaking world, but in January 2009 someone suggested that we started a daily online magazine! The CFZ bloggo is a collaborative effort by a coalition of members, friends, and supporters of the CFZ, and covers all the subjects with which we deal, with a smattering of music, high strangeness and surreal humour to make up the mix.

It is edited by CFZ Director Jon Downes, and subbed by the lovely Lizzy Bitakara'mire (formerly Clancy), scourge of improper syntax. The daily newsblog is edited by Corinna Downes, head administratrix of the CFZ, and the indexing is done by Lee Canty and Kathy Imbriani. There is regular news from the CFZ Mystery Cat study group, and regular fortean bird news from 'The Watcher of the Skies'. Regular bloggers include Dr Karl Shuker, Dale Drinnon, Richard Muirhead and Richard Freeman.The CFZ bloggo is updated daily, and there's nothing quite like it anywhere else. Come and join us...

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

YET ANOTHER NEW CFZ INITIATIVE

My old friend Richard Muirhead is staying with us at the moment, and as always when someone is staying with us, we put them to work. Richard has a Master's degree in Librarianship, and so what do we get him to do when he visits the rural CFZ for a week during this glorious spring? We get him to dig the turtle pond. No, of course we don't! We get him and Oll to start cataloguing our ridiculously voluminous library, which consists of thousands of books on obscure and esoteric subjects.


The evntual aim is to have the entire CFZ archives catalogued and indexed online, and a searchable index of all the books in the CFZ library as well. It is going to be an enormous job, and I would be very grateful if there is anyone who lives in North Devon and is a reader of the bloggo, who fancies doing a little bit of voluntary work for us, and spending a day or so helping Oll with the library.....

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