Timeline
January:
- Met my mentors Jillian Sandy and Jennifer Embree and established expectations and goals for the project.
- Began to gather information and read articles on zines.
February:
- Interviewed professors who are currently or have previously worked with zines (Danberg, Writing Studies; Loutensock, Cinema).
- Continued reading zine scholarship and created an annotated bibliography of useful articles that included how I planned to use them in the future.
- Met and collaborated with Caitlin Holton, the ORB administrator, to establish a zine category on the ORB, and Ruth Carpenter, the digital scholarship library, to begin a website for the project through Omeka.
- Planned and held the first zine workshop, where students were able to make their own works and learn about the history of zines as well as how their works can be included on the ORB.
March:
- Began cataloging the physical zines purchased for the project and adding them to the Omeka website.
- Met with the Makerlab administrator to discuss a collaboration that would allow for a pilot zine library to be hosted by it.
- Created a formal proposal for a zine library that outlined why the library should have a zine library and the steps and funding required to establish it.
April:
- Created a submission proposal for The Reading Room, a journal at the University of Buffalo to explore and further document the project.
- Planned and held a second zine workshop, where students created collages that deal with the past year at Binghamton, which were collected into the “remember 24-25” zine, available online and in print.
- Prepared for poster presentations at the SUNY Undergraduate Research Conference, Research Days, and the Library Poster Session.