From A to Zine: Building a Winning Zine Collection in Your LibraryLibraries eager to serve the underserved teen-to-twenty-year-old market can make the library a cool place to hang out. All it takes are zines, according to the author, young adult librarian Julie Bartel. Zines and alternative press materials provide a unique bridge to appeal to disenfranchised youth, alienated by current collections. For librarians unfamiliar with the territory, or anxious to broaden their collection, veteran zinester Bartel establishes the context, history, and philosophy of zines, then ushers readers through an easy, do-it-yourself guide to creating a zine collection, including both print and electronic zines. While zines have their unique culture, they are also important within broader discussions of intellectual freedom and the Library Bill of Rights. Teen and young adult librarians, high school media specialists, and academic, reference, and adult services librarians will uncover answers to questions aboutthis new and growing literary genre:
Bartel shares these lessons and more from a major urban library zine collection, as well as a comprehensive directory of zine resources in this one-stop, one-of-a-kind guide. |
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... zinesters who have supported the collection and whose projects continue to inspire us . Thanks also to all the people on the zinegeeks , zinelibrarians , and zinesters chat lists who answered my question- naire , my follow - up ...
... zinesters who have supported the collection and whose projects continue to inspire us . Thanks also to all the people on the zinegeeks , zinelibrarians , and zinesters chat lists who answered my question- naire , my follow - up ...
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... Zinesters use handmade paper ( Brainscan ) , linoleum - block prints ( All This Is Mine ) , photographs ( Say Cheese ) , and color collage ( Xenogenesis ) to enhance their work , and while many zines are simply folded in half and ...
... Zinesters use handmade paper ( Brainscan ) , linoleum - block prints ( All This Is Mine ) , photographs ( Say Cheese ) , and color collage ( Xenogenesis ) to enhance their work , and while many zines are simply folded in half and ...
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... zinesters , the satisfaction and gratifica- tion of communicating their vision is well worth the effort , whether they choose to seek a wide readership or not . As longtime zinester Chip Rowe explains , " they're Tinkertoys for ...
... zinesters , the satisfaction and gratifica- tion of communicating their vision is well worth the effort , whether they choose to seek a wide readership or not . As longtime zinester Chip Rowe explains , " they're Tinkertoys for ...
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... zinester . " He pub- lished his own thoughts using his own printing presses . It wasn't the magazine business . He did ... zinesters today.10 Dada magazines such as Cabaret Voltaire , 291 , and New York Dada incorporated rants ( a zine ...
... zinester . " He pub- lished his own thoughts using his own printing presses . It wasn't the magazine business . He did ... zinesters today.10 Dada magazines such as Cabaret Voltaire , 291 , and New York Dada incorporated rants ( a zine ...
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... zinesters have embraced ) , and collages , a near - necessity for beginning zinesters . All these characteristics — political comment , literary and artistic expres- sion , methods and means of form and distribution — found voice later ...
... zinesters have embraced ) , and collages , a near - necessity for beginning zinesters . All these characteristics — political comment , literary and artistic expres- sion , methods and means of form and distribution — found voice later ...
Contents
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Intellectual Freedom the Library Bill of Rights and Zines | 23 |
To Collect or Not to Collect The Whys and Wherefores | 31 |
The Salt Lake City Public Library Zine Collection | 44 |
Zine Collections A DoItYourself Guide | 55 |
What Do You Do with Them Once Youve Got Them? | 68 |
Living Arrangements | 77 |
Appendixes | 123 |
How to Start Your Own Zine | 132 |
Review Zines | 133 |
Distros | 135 |
Zine Fairs and Conferences | 141 |
Zine Libraries | 142 |
Stores That Carry Zines | 145 |
Recommended Reading | 146 |
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Page 28 - We believe that free communication is essential to the preservation of a free society and a creative culture. We believe that these pressures toward conformity present the danger of limiting the range and variety of inquiry and expression on which our democracy and our culture depend. We believe that every American community must jealously guard the freedom to publish and to circulate, in order to preserve its own freedom to read. We believe...
Page 28 - ... collections. We believe that free communication is essential to the preservation of a free society and a creative culture. We believe that these pressures towards...
Page 30 - We state these propositions neither lightly nor as easy generalizations. We here stake out a lofty claim for the value of books. We do so because we believe that they are good, possessed of enormous variety and usefulness, worthy of cherishing and keeping free. We realize that the application of these propositions may mean the dissemination of ideas and manners of expression that are repugnant to many persons. We do not state these propositions in the comfortable belief that what people read is unimportant....
Page 28 - ... conformity present the danger of limiting the range and variety of inquiry and expression on which our democracy and our culture depend. We believe that every American community must jealously guard the freedom to publish and to circulate, in order to preserve its own freedom to read. We believe that publishers and librarians have a profound responsibility to give validity to that freedom to read by making it possible for the readers to choose freely from a variety of offerings.
Page 27 - Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information, and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves.
Page 27 - Libraries should provide materials and information presenting all points of view on current and historical issues. Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.
Page 29 - To some, much of modern literature is shocking. But is not much of life itself shocking? We cut off literature at the source if we prevent writers from dealing with the stuff of life. Parents and teachers have a responsibility to prepare the young to meet the diversity of experiences in life to which they will be exposed, as they have a responsibility to help them learn to think critically for themselves. These are affirmative responsibilities, not to be discharged simply by preventing...
Page 25 - ... the variegated voices of a subterranean world staking out its identity through the cracks of capitalism and in the shadows of the mass media.
Page 5 - Zines, with all their limitations and contradictions, offer up something very important to the people who create and enjoy them: a place to walk to," writes Duncombe. "In the shadows of the dominant culture, zines and underground culture mark out a free space: a space within which to imagine and experiment with new and idealistic ways of thinking, communicating, and...
Page 2 - I doubt this new computer medium will supplant the paper zine entirely. After all, the telegraph, telephone, radio, and television never did away with the underground presses. There is something about the materiality of a zine — you can feel it, stick it in your pocket, read it in the park, give it away at a show — that I myself would be reluctant to give up.10 It also doesn't really matter.