2020年2月，高?？苹闷脚_(tái)啟動(dòng)了『國際高?？苹蒙鐖F(tuán)交流計(jì)劃』，我們希望通過線上采訪的形式，結(jié)交國際科幻社團(tuán)同好，向中國科幻圈介紹國際高?？苹玫陌l(fā)展現(xiàn)狀，促進(jìn)彼此之間的深入了解。

我們委托日語翻譯田田老師首先向13所日本高校科幻社團(tuán)發(fā)出采訪邀請(qǐng)函，并陸續(xù)收到了回信（相關(guān)回信可查看《海外社團(tuán)》欄目）。2021年年末，河流向英語地區(qū)部分海外高校通過郵件取得聯(lián)系，接下來，高?？苹闷脚_(tái)將陸續(xù)刊登這些回信。

以下是回信的翻譯內(nèi)容

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您好，很高興收到您的來信。很抱歉，您的郵件之前被歸類進(jìn)了垃圾郵件文件夾，因此我們沒能看到它。

我們是麻省理工學(xué)院科幻協(xié)會(huì)（MITSFS），于1949年成立。現(xiàn)在由我來回答你的一些問題，盡管我并不是最新一任主席，已經(jīng)畢業(yè)了。

我們會(huì)在每年春天舉行一次理事會(huì)選舉，會(huì)選出新一任主席，副主席，財(cái)務(wù)部長(zhǎng)和秘書，作為一個(gè)校內(nèi)社團(tuán)，我們的主要活動(dòng)是在學(xué)校里運(yùn)營(yíng)一個(gè)科幻奇幻圖書館。

因?yàn)槲也⒉辉趯W(xué)校，所以無法獲取現(xiàn)有會(huì)員的電話號(hào)碼。我們通常會(huì)有幾十位成員一同管理圖書館，幾百人來圖書館翻閱書籍。

我們的主要招新方式通常是帶著一大堆科幻奇幻書籍去學(xué)生社團(tuán)招新大會(huì)，看看誰會(huì)因此被吸引，說服那些對(duì)協(xié)會(huì)圖書館很感興趣的人加入我并協(xié)助管理它。在新型觀眾肺炎（COVID-19）大流行的影響下， 我們的招新遇到了很多麻煩，這可能需要另外一個(gè)人來談?wù)撨@個(gè)問題。

我們有專門訂購書籍的成員；有將書籍錄入數(shù)據(jù)庫的成員；有在精裝書封面上貼上塑料封皮來保養(yǎng)書籍的成員；有負(fù)責(zé)多余書籍捐贈(zèng)接收的成員；維護(hù)協(xié)會(huì)電腦程序的開發(fā)者（數(shù)據(jù)庫和借閱系統(tǒng)）；每天開館閉館的成員；還有專門做招新的成員等等。

有時(shí)我們會(huì)組織集體觀看電影，在過去十年的時(shí)間內(nèi)參加全民寫小說寫作平臺(tái)（NanoWrimo）發(fā)起的“全國小說創(chuàng)作月”活動(dòng)，邀請(qǐng)其他成員在11月每個(gè)星期參加2小時(shí)的寫作活動(dòng)；我們之前還組織過當(dāng)?shù)氐目苹么髸?huì)（Boskone，美國波士頓科幻奇幻協(xié)會(huì)舉辦的科幻大會(huì)）。因?yàn)橛泻芏鄬?duì)科幻感興趣的人，因此這些活動(dòng)才能被舉辦。

我們的日?；顒?dòng)是讓圖書館一直保持開放狀態(tài)并時(shí)不時(shí)提供一些新書，而這在新冠肺炎疫情的影響下變得非常困難。我們也有每周例會(huì)，每次例會(huì)都會(huì)在晚餐后結(jié)束?，F(xiàn)在我們改成在線上平臺(tái)discord上舉辦讀書會(huì)（我認(rèn)為這種情況很快就會(huì)結(jié)束），相對(duì)而言，活動(dòng)空間（Space）永遠(yuǎn)是困難的。

我們有做作家采訪，讀書會(huì)，以及其他的一些社交活動(dòng)。每年春季選舉過后，我們都會(huì)舉辦一年一度的春季野餐活動(dòng)，但我們更傾向于不組織大型活動(dòng)。

我們有許多非常活躍的畢業(yè)校友，比如我，這有利于保持協(xié)會(huì)的制度記憶（institutional ?memory）和制度信息（institutionalknowledge）。

這樣一封郵件應(yīng)該已經(jīng)能夠覺得您提出的以上問題了，如果您感興趣的話，歡迎繼續(xù)提問！我也很好奇你們遇到了哪些困難。

最后，雖然有點(diǎn)早，但：

新年快樂，恭喜發(fā)財(cái)！

凱瑟琳（Katherine）

科幻協(xié)會(huì)前理事會(huì)主席

2022年1月29日6時(shí)42分

以下是回信原文

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Hello!

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It's nice to hear from you. Sorry yourmessage went into the spam folder and we didn't see it right away.

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(1) (2) We're the Massachusetts Instituteof Technology Science Fiction Society. We started in 1949. I'll answer some ofyour questions, though I'm not the most up-to-date, since I'm not a currentstudent.

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(4) We have elections for President, VicePresident, Treasurer, and Secretary once a year in the spring. Our mainactivity as a group is running a science fiction and fantasy library on campus.

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(5) I don't have access to our currentmembership numbers. We usually have a couple dozen people who run the libraryand a couple hundred people who check out books.

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(6) Our main recruitment method was usuallyto 1) go to student group recruitment fairs with a giant pile of books and seewho is attracted by that 2) talk anyone who seems really excited to find ourlibrary into joining to help run it. With COVID-19 we have had a lot of troublewith recruitment, but someone who is not me would need to be the one to talkabout that.

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(7) We have people who order books, peoplewho put the books in our database, people who put plastic on hardcover bookcovers for protection, people who find places to donate excess books, peoplewho maintain our computer programs (database, check out system), people whokeep the library open, people who do recruitment and others.

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(7) Sometimes we organize movie watching,one person over the past decade likes participating in National Novel WritingMonth (NaNoWriMo) and invites others to join her for 2 hrs a week duringNovember, we've organized trips to the local Sci-Fi Convention (Boskone)before. Those activities come and go as people who are interested in organizingthem come and go.

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(8) Our daily activities are keeping thelibrary open and supplied with new books. This has been very hard with COVID.We also have weekly meetings that often end with everyone going to dinner.Right now we're doing a book club over Discord (I think that's ending soon).

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(9) We've had authors come visit and givereadings or talk and socialize. That's maybe a once a year thing. We also havean annual picnic right after elections. We tend not to do big eventorganization.

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(10) Space is always difficult.

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(11) We have very active alumni (I'm one).This helps maintain institutional memory and institutional knowledge.

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I think that's enough writing for oneemail. Feel free to ask more about anything that is interesting to you! I'mvery curious about what sorts of difficulties you've run into.

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It's a little early, but,

新年快樂，恭喜發(fā)財(cái)

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-Katherine

Former MITSFS President，

2022.01.29，6：42

聯(lián)絡(luò)：河流

翻譯：河流

編輯：孟溫煜