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Comment by Bradley Adita on November 19, 2009 at 11:46am

The Special Collections at the John T. Richardson Library at DePaul University and Chicago Underground Library are the two main zine libraries in Chicago. If you know of any more significant ones, please let me know. Thanx!

Comment by Billy Da Bunny on October 20, 2009 at 6:26am

Yo yo! After many years of dressing as a bunny, and selling zines, I've decided I've only got the energy for one of those things. Yes, I went with the bunny suit. So that means a massive "Going out of business!" sale at www.loopdistro.com

check out the site, email a list of what you want, and I will tell you the total cost. right now, all zines are $1 each, and books are half price. other distros and libraries will get even better pricing. i'll do what i can (but i'm totally broke too, ya know!)

hit me up! loopdistro@gmail.com

cheers!

Comment by Giz on September 28, 2009 at 9:27am

My nickname is giz, I'm not really a librarian (well, I got plenty of books and zines home) but this is what I want to do after college.

Comment by Jerianne on July 31, 2009 at 6:31am

My name is Jerianne Thompson. I am a graduate student in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. I am also a zine librarian and a zine publisher. I am conducting an academic research project to collect data about cataloging zines in libraries.

I am working with a group of zine librarians to improve the process of cataloging zines. We hope to ultimately develop a union catalog for zines -- an online catalog containing cataloging records that can be shared by multiple libraries and organizations with zine collections. In order to guide the development of this union catalog, I am conducting a survey of current zine cataloging methods and practices, and preferences for a shared cataloging tool.

I hope to gather information from as many libraries as possible, including libraries of all types and other organizations with a zine collection. I hope you will assist me with this project by having someone affiliated with the zine collection at your library complete this brief, 10 question survey.

The survey may be completed at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=gZYM5_2bWsXbk1BEmoZy0A6A_3d_3d. Because the questions are about zine cataloging practices and preferences for online cataloging records, please have your cataloger or someone aware of your library's zine cataloging methods complete the survey. The end result of this research will be a paper reporting on this assessment and outlining recommendations to the zine catalog working group.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact me at jthomp42@utk.edu. You may also write to me at PO Box 330156, Murfreesboro TN 37133. Thank you for your assistance.

Comment by Lotte Rubbish on July 25, 2009 at 6:36pm

Can anyone tell me if there is a zine library in the Washington, D.C. area? I just moved here recently and my google searches are not turning up anything.

Comment by Cherry Bomb Comics on July 23, 2009 at 1:13am

Sunday 26th July: Discussions & Workshops @ 56a infoshop Zine Library Launch
1pm: practical squatting (resources 56a can offer)
2pm: Radical Self-published Comix w/ the makers of Morgenmuffel, Last Hours, Colouring Outside the Lines & more
3pm onwards: Zine Librarians discussing zine libraries! Make & do & talk session, help us with the cataloguing, labelling, displaying of the 56a zine library and generally geek out with other zinesters & librarians
Throughout the day: Bike maintenance, and check out the bike workshop at 56a

Comment by Cherry Bomb Comics on July 17, 2009 at 1:41am

Oh, and for any new zine libraries starting up, we have a few doubles that we are removing from the library, so let us know and we can post these to you.

Comment by Cherry Bomb Comics on July 17, 2009 at 1:39am

For the zine librarians in London/UK:
56a infoshop in London is relaunching its zine library at the end of the month. There is a weekend of events to celebrate this: a gig on Saturday 25th July @ Grosvenor, 17 Sidney Road, Stockwell feat. zine distros & queer bands. Sunday 26th July @ 56a info shop, Crampton Street, Elephant & Castle, there will be discussions & workshops including one on self-published comix, and networking between zinesters & zine librarians. This is from 12pm on, and will follow a breakfast at 56a, and of course, browsing of the zine library!!!

Comment by Milo on March 3, 2009 at 10:11am

If you're on the ZL list you may have seen this, but I thought it was worth reposting:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/7908705.stm

Comment by David Lasky on February 18, 2009 at 2:54am

Many of you know this already, but for those of you who don't, there will be a Zine Librarians (Un)Conference at ZAPP (Seattle's Zine Archive and Publishing Project) in mid-March! Here's the link to the press release...

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