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“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.” --Audre Lorde
I've been working on a few projects surrounding zine libraries and underground press collections. One thing I noticed (and posted to the Zine Librarians email list) is that there isn't a centralized repository of shared documentation for folks who are starting to start up their own collections (often people are happy to share the info, there just isn't a central location for it to live). While creating that repository is a larger project than I can handle at the moment, I did want to share my own work.
I'm posting the SLIS Library Workers Zine Collection Collection Policies and Guide here.
It was originally a booklet of information about the Library Workers Zine Collection that I started at the SLIS Laboratory Library in 2006. I've attached a copy of the document and pasted it here so that you can read most of the text on this site or download the PDF version with full cataloging information (!!!). Hope it is helpful!
As I am doing a bit of schoolwork and other projects related to zines and print culture, I dug up an old piece that I had originally written for the Madison Zine Fest's website in 2005. I thought it might be useful to share here. Re-reading it again in combination with another survey of the literature has likewise inspired me to create more comprehensive list of definitions, so stay tuned for that.
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Rhymes with Bean: A Do-It-Yourself Zine Definition
Jenna and I will be presenting "Zines 101" tomorrow at the Queens Public Library. I'm excited to spend some time looking at works with our librarian audience as an attempt to define them (an illustration of my DIY Zine Definition). For slides you can see Jenna's post.
The Borough is my Library: A Greater Metropolitan Library Workers Zine
Summary and Contents below.
In March, Rooster(Rachel), Jenna and I edited Zine Librarian Zine #3 just in time for the Zine Librarians (Un)Conference in Seattle. You can download your own copy on this zinelibraries.info page (beware before copying that you may need to re-order the pages).
Who knows, maybe we will just "debate whether the collecting of zines by libraries and museums contradicts, even cancels out, the basically anti-establishment zine concept."... But don't bet on it. I'll be speaking about how my radical library heroes have taught me what's worth collecting (esp. Dodge and Danky, both of whose work I plan to talk about at length and to whom I owe another round of thank yous).
Jenna posted her slides for our talk tomorrow, "Zines: Institutional Collecting, Zine Makers, and the Fine Line of Art,"on Lower East Side Librarian. Click through for mine.
Somehow I never put these up earlier this Spring. I think I was attempting to learn to install Drupal and typing notes at the same time. Without further delay, a few notes that barely begin to encompass all of the wonderful things we talked about at the Zine Librarian (un)Conference in Seattle, WA, March 2009.
More notes from all of the sessions are available on the wiki: http://seattle-zine-unconference.wikispaces.com/Notes+from+sessions
*Disclaimer: I'm using this post to mess with outline functionality. Bear with me!
I made a list of zine links for Utne Reader recently!
http://www.utne.com/Media/Alt-Wire-World-of-Zines-with-Librarian-Alycia-...
