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Zines in Libraries: Academic | Public | School | Volunteer
Zines and Librarianship | Zines and Academia
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Zines in Academic Libraries

• Barnard College, NYC, NY
  Self-identified women's personal and political zines. Open stacks and archives collections.
• Beloit College, Beloit, WI
• BGSU, Bowling Green, OH
• Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
  Southwest zines
• Duke University, Durham, NC
  Includes the Sarah Dyer collection
• Michigan State, East Lansing, MI
  Comics are their specialty.
• Minnesota Community and Technical College, Minneapolis, MN
• U. Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  Political, especially anarchist zines.
• Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
  Art zines
• San Diego State University West Coast Zine Collection, San Diego, CA
• Smith College, Northampton, MA
  Girls' zines, many from Tristan Taormino's collection.
• Tulane University Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, New Orleans, LA
  Zines by southern women.
• UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
• University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
  Zines from around Western New York circa early to mid 1990s
• University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
  Science fiction fanzines
• University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
• University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK
  Supports an arts, design & media illustration course
• University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
  Science fiction fanzines, and also comic books
• Watkins College of Art & Design, Nashville, TN

Zines in Public Libraries

• Austin Public Library, Austin, TX
• Baltimore County Public Library, Baltimore, MD
• Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, PA
• Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, OH
• Cuyahoga County Public Library, Independence, OH
  Teen collection at Independence branch.
• Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, MO
• Kitsap Regional Library: Port Orchard Branch, Port Orchard, WA
  Local, teen, comics, northwest zines
• Linebaugh Public Library, Murfreesboro, TN
• Minneapolis Public Library Walker Branch, Minneapolis, MN
  Search for subject Fanzines and you'll retrieve a list of nearly 200 bibliographic records, most representing not items about zines but zines themselves.
• Multnomah County Public Library, Portland, OR
• New York Public Library, New York City
• New York State Library, Albany, NY
  They have the Factsheet Five collection.
• Port Phillip Library Service, Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia
• Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City, UT
• San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA
• Timberland Regional Library, Olympia, WA
  Search for them in the catalog using keyword <zine>
• Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, Canada
  coming soon
• Wellington City Libraries, Wellington, New Zealand
• Ypsilanti District Library, Ypsilanti, MI

Zines in School Libraries

• Plymouth Regional High School, Plymouth NH
  Zines are not cataloged, but they do circulate.

Zines in Volunteer Libraries and Infoshops

• ABC No Rio Zine Library, New York City
• AboveGround Zine Library, New Orleans, LA
• Bako Zines Library, Bakersfield, CA
  Inside Downtown Records.
  They're looking for donations: P.O. Box 30117 Bakersfield, CA. 93385
• Bat Annex Free School Library, Minneapolis, MN.
  Their catalog is online at LibraryThing.
• Bibliograph, Montréal, Québec, Canada
  Bilingual (Français/English)
• Charm City Art Space, Baltimore, MD
  About half personal zines, and half punk zines like MRR and HeartattaCk.
• Chicago Underground Library, Chicago, IL
  Anything self-published in Chicago
• Denver Zine Library, Denver, CO
• Dry River Zine Library, Tucson, AZ
• Fanzinotheque, Poitiers, France
• Flywheel, Easthampton, MA
• Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC), Portland, OR
• Nagi Shokudo, Shibuya, Japan
  Zine library in a vegan restaurant. Japanese/English collection. From VLU blog.
• Olympia Zine Library, Olympia, WA
• Omaha Zine Library, Omaha, NE
• Papercut Zine Library, Cambridge, MA
• Punk Zine Archive, Mill Creek, WA
  Pdfs of out of print issues of punk zines including Flipside, HeartattaCk, Maximumrocknroll, and Suburban Voice.
• Queer Zine Archive Project, Milwaukee, WI
  Queer zines available in pdf for download.
• The Richard Hugo House Zine Archive & Publishing Project, Seattle, WA
• Rock! Paper! Scissors! Zine Library, Oakland, CA
• Sheridan College Library, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
• Slumgullion Independent Publishing Co-op, Missoula, MT
  Local and kid friendly zines, and others.
• Sweet Candy Zine Library, Philadelphia, PA
• Toronto Zine Library, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Unofficial SUNY New Paltz Traveling Zine Library, New Paltz, NY
• Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, Urbana, IL
   

Zines and Librarianship

• Allison, Virginia. "ZMedia Librarian: From Theory to Practice" blog. Accessed April 25, 2007.
• Aulik, Denise. "Zines, Literacy, and the Adolescent," Knowledge Quest on the Web. Volume 35. September/October 2006.
• Barack, Lauren. "Librarians Tell All in Zines," School Library Journal. April 1, 2006: p. 27.
• Bartel, Julie. From A to Zine: Building a Winning Zine Collection in Your Library. Chicago: ALA Editions 2004.
• Berman, Sanford. "Zine Cataloging" talk delivered at the Madison Zine Fest. October 16, 2005.
• Darlington, Tenaya. "Zinester Paradise: Alycia Sellie Launches Madison Zine Fest Next Week," Isthmus, October 1, 2004.
• Cohen, Billie. "College Cred: Barnard's Library Stresses the Importance of DIY Zines," Time Out New York. April 6-12, 2006. p. 12.
• Dodge, Chris. "Collecting the Wretched Refuse: Lifting a Lamp to Zines, Military Newspapers, and Wisconsinalia," Library Trends. Urbana: Winter 2008. Vol. 56, Iss. 3; p. 667 (11 pages).
• Dodge, Chris. "The New Monastic Librarians," Utne. July/August 2005: 78-80.
• Duffy, Kim Hancey. "the basement tapes," Print. Sep/Oct 2005,Vol.59, Iss. 5; pg.
  38, 3 pgs,
• Fauchereau, Lise, "Graphzines et autres livres graphiques [Graphic-zines and other graphic art publications]," Nouvelles de l'Estampe, no. 213, 2007, Jul 2007-Nov 2007, pp. 20-25.
• Freedman, Jenna, "How to Pick What Zine Library to Donate To?" Zine World. July 2006, #23: pg. 42.
• Freedman, Jenna, "Self-Publication with Punk Rock Ideals: Zines ≠ Vanity Press Publications," presented at SHARP Conference, Minneapolis, MN, July 13, 2007.
• Freedman, Jenna, "Your Zine Tool Kit:A DIY Collection," Library Journal. June 15, 2006, v. 131, n. 11: 36-39.
• Freedman, Jenna. "Zines Are Not Blogs: A Not Unbiased Analysis," Counterpoise. Summer 2005, V.9, N.3: 10-? . An article on a similar theme from Red Hooded Sweatshirt #3, 1999, "Of & about Letters: Love-letters & Passed Notes & Everyday Declarations of Friendship" by Marissa Falco.
• Gisonny, Karen and Jenna Freedman. "Zines in Libraries: How, What, and Why?" Collection Building, v. 25, n. 1, 2006: 26-30
• Hsu, Hua. "File under Other." Boston Globe. May 6, 2007. p. E3. (Not sure how long the link will last.)
• Hubbard, Colleen. "DIY in the Stacks: a Study of Three Public Library Zine Collections," Public Libraries, November/December 2005: 351-354.
• Koppel, Lily. "Zines in the Library Catalogue? Of Course." New York Times. April 11, 2006. p. B2.
• Means, Greig. Zine Librarian Zine http://www.microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/zines/336/
• Moore, Anne Elizabeth, "Unofficial Histories: Zine and Ephemeral Print Archivists." Punk Planet, #75, September and October, 2006.
• NPR Interview with Miriam DesHarnais of the Baltimore Public Library. Also Benn Ray of Atomic Books and Davida Gypsy Breier of Xerography Debt.
• Schaefer, Andrew. "Cartoonists find fans at Cockeysville library." Baltimore Sun. April 12, 2007 Thursday: p. 4B. (Link may not last forever. Accessed April 18, 2007.)
• Sellie, Alycia. " ." Feminist Collections, v. 27, nos. 2-3, Winter-Spring 2006: p. 36-38.
• Silarski, Kim. "Mainstream Picking up on Medium That's Gaining Respect in the Culture:
  Zines Allow Individual, Intimate Expression," The Ann Arbor News, Sunday, November 5, 2006. Accessed November 7, 2006. The link probably won't last.
• Stewart, Sean. Reviews of zines by library workers. 
• University of Oregon exhibit, "Zines Make the Scene in Knight Library Exhibit."
• West, Jessamyn. From Pixels to Picas column, "Life in the Trenches of Print and Web Publishing: an Interview with Jenna Freedman, Curator of the Barnard Zine Collection," in Serials Review, volume 32, number 6, p. 266-269. December 2006. (Link requires a subscription to the journal.)
• Zine Librarians discussion list

Zines in Academia

• Blandy, Doug. Zine course at the University of Oregon, "Zines and Do-It-Yourself Democracy."
• Freedman, Jenna. "Locating the Disconnected: Zines in Academic Libraries," National Women's Studies Association Conference. June 2006.
• A talk Jenna Freedman gave at the Association of College and Research Libraries Conference in 2005 and also the hand out.
• The talk listed above adapted for the Rare Book and Manuscript Pre-Conference, 2005.
• Thi-Beard, Kate Vo. "Using Zines to Encourage Multiple Literacies," Wisconsin English Journal. v. 47, n. 2. Fall 2005: 27-33.

Barnard Zine News & Events

• We're not really posting here anymore. Follow our LiveJournal for the latest news, including the fact that our zines now circulate!!!
• July 14, 2007 Barnard Zine Librarian co-facilitated zine talk at the Twin Cities Zine Fest.
• July 13, 2007 Barnard Zine Librarian presented at SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing).
• July 2007 published "SISTERHOOD WOULD HAVE BEEN POWERFUL: notes on class and contemporary feminism" from Cupsize, no. 5.  1996.
• June 2007 published "Different: Uniqueness and Judgment" from Cain, no. 3.
• Zine Collection profiled in Boston Globe, May 6, 2007.
• Panel presentation on Barnard Zine Collection wins women's studies award.
• Barnard Zines LiveJournal launched, April 26, 2007. (Thanks to zine intern Jazmin.)
• Barnard Zine Collection curator reading at Bluestockings, March 25, 2007.
• Barnard Zine Collection spotlighted on the Columbia Libraries homepage, March, 2007.
• Cite this Zine: How to Cite a Zine in Your Research Project Zine published December 6, 2006. Created by "The Zine Intern." (Thanks to zine intern Sarah.)
   

  1	8	7	6
  2	3	4	5

  
  Print it out on 11x17 paper. Make sure your printer is set to landscape.
  Cut a slit between pages 4 and 7, 3 and 8.
  Fold so that the pages line up as indicated in the table above.
  Our model was Anne Elizabeth Moore's How to Make This Very Zine.

• FAQs page published November 30, 2006. (Thanks to zine interns Sarah and Yael.)
• ZINES—Not Banned, but Invisible Just the Same! September 27. 2006. (Thanks to zine intern Sarah.)
• Pitch a Fit: Make a Zine Workshop, March 2006. (Thanks to zine intern Yael.)
• Boston Zine Fair, March 2006. Talk and handout. March 2006
• Created MySpace profile, February 2006. (Thanks to zine intern Yael.) Also FaceBook. (Thanks to zine intern Melissa.)
• Small Press Book Fair, December 2005
• Barnard & Columbia students and alumnae Reading, November 2005. (Thanks to zine intern Torie.)
• Madison Zine Fest, October 2005. "Zinebrarianship: How the Smallest Underground Publications can Reinvigorate your Library." Presentation and Handout.
• RBMS Conference, handout. St. Louis, MO. June 2005
• Symposium on Media Literacy in Education, June 2005. "DIY Publications and Media Literacy: Zines in the Classroom." handout. Bowling Green, OH.
• ACRL, April 2005. "Collecting and Preserving the Do It Yourself Revolution: Zines in Libraries" panel discussion. handout. Minneapolis, MN. April 2005
   

NYC Zine Sources

• ABC No Rio Zine Library contains over seven thousand items on subjects such as music, culture, politics, personal experience and travel.
  156 Rivington Street | 212.254.3697 ext. 323
• Bluestockings radical bookstore, fair-trade cafe, and activist center.
  172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington | 212.777.6028
• May Day Books and Infoshop nonprofit grassroots educational and informational project committed to providing the working class with resources that will assist their effort to understand and transform the world.
  (CLOSED UNTIL THEY FIND A NEW SPACE--TEMPORARILY, WE HOPE)
• New York Public Library
• Vox Pop bookstores in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last updated 09/25/2008
by the Zine Librarian.

Barnard College Library
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027