Zine resources and zine-related materials

Books: 

  • From A to Zine: Building a Winning Zine Collection in Your Library, Julie Bartel, 2004
  • Zines in libraries: selecting, purchasing, and processing, Lauren Defoe, 2022
  • The Riot Grrrl Collection, ed. Lisa Darns, 2013
  • Adjusted Margin: Xerography, Art, and Activism in the Late Twentieth Century, Katie Eichhorn, 2016
  • Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism, Alison Piepmeier, 2009
  • Queer Zines, Philip Aarons & AA Bronson, 2009
  • Shotgun Seamstress: An Anthology, Osa Atoe, 2022
  • Writing a Riot: Riot Grrrl Zines and Feminist Rhetorics, Rebekah J. Buchana, 2018
  • Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines,  Branden W. Joseph & Drew Sawyer, 2024
  • Zine Scene: The Do It Yourself Guide to Zines,  Francesca Lia Block & Hillary Carlip, 1998
  • Zines in Third Space: Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric, Adela C. Licona, 2013

 

Articles: 

  • Creasap, Kimberly. “Zine-Making as Feminist Pedagogy.” Feminist Teacher, vol. 24, no. 3, 2014, pp. 155-168. JSTOR
  • Du Laney, Claire et al. “The Pedagogy of Zines: Collaboration, Creation, and Collection.” Integrating pop culture into the academic library, edited by Johnson, M. E., Weeks, T. C., & Putnam, D. J. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2022, 169-185.
  • Du Laney, Claire et al. “The Librarian’s Guide to Zines for Classroom and Community.” Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations, no. 123, 2020. DigitalCommons@UNO
  • Thomas, Susan. “Zines for Teaching: A Survey of Pedagogy and Implications for Academic Librarians.” portal: Libraries and the Academy, vol. 18, no. 4, 2018, p. 737-758. Project MUSE
  • Veitch, Madeline. “Read a Zine, Then Make One, Then Catalog it: Creating a Zine Library at SUNY New Paltz.” The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections, vol. 2, no. 1, 2016, p. 83-101
  • Hays, Anne. “A Citation Analysis about Scholarship on Zines.” Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, no. 8, 2020, eP2341
  • Mayorga, Liz & Capistrano, Daniela. “Let’s Talk about: Zines in the Classroom-Pros and Cons – @poczineproject on Tumblr.” Tumblr, 16 June 201
  • Piepmeier, Alison. “Why Zines Matter: Materiality and the Creation of Embodied Community.” American Periodicals, vol. 18, no. 2, 2008, p. 213-238. JSTOR
  • Baker, Sarah & Cantillon, Zelmarie. “Zines as community archive.” Archival Science, vol. 22, 2022, p. 539-561
  • Van Melik, Rianne, et al. “Studying and Stimulating a Sense of Community Through Co‐productive Zine‐making in Public Libraries.” Area, vol. 56, no. 4, July 2024

 

Films & Documentaries: 

  • The Punk Singer, dir. Sini Anderson, 2013
  • Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution, dir. Yony Leyser, 2017
  • Don’t Need You - The Herstory of Riot Grrrl, dir. Kerri Koch, 2005
  • Afro-Punk: The ‘Rock n Roll ******’ Experience, dir. James Spooner, 2003
  • Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, dir. Paul Sng & Celeste Bell, 2021
  • Dirty Girls, dir. Michael Lucid, 2000
  • Girl Power, dir. Sadie Benning, 1992
  • She’s Real (Worse than Queer), dir. Lucy Thane, 1997
  • From the Back of the Room, dir. Amy Oden, 2011
  • Revolution, Riot Grrrl Style, dir. Sonia Gonzalez, 2014

 

Zine libraries in New York (from the Barnard Zine Library):

  • ABC No Rio Zine Library, NYC
  • Barnard Zine Library, NYC
  • Booklet Library, NYC
  • Brooklyn College, Brooklyn
  • Center for Book Arts, NYC
  • DitKO!, the Silent Barn, Brooklyn
  • Durland Alternatives Library, Cornell University, Ithaca
  • Fales Library & Special Collections, NYU, NYC
  • Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) Zine Library, NYC
  • DeWitt Wallace Periodical Room 108, Schwarzman Building, New York Public Library, NYC
  • New York State Library, Albany
  • Pace University Zine Library, NYC
  • Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
  • Silent City Distro, Ithaca
  • Sugar City, Buffalo
  • SUNY New Paltz Zine Library, New Paltz
  • TAC Zine Library, Owego
  • Wells College Zine Library, Aurora
  • University at Buffalo, Buffalo
  • Vassar Zine Library, Poughkeepsie

 

Zine-related events in New York: 

  • 8 Ball Zine Fair, New York City
  • Pete’s Mini Zine Fest, Brooklyn
  • Scholaztic Zine Fair, NYC
  • Zine & Self-Published Photo Book Fair, NYC
  • NY Zine Fest, Kirkland
  • NY Queer Zine Fair, NYC
  • NYC Feminist Zine Fest, NYC
  • Black Zine Fair, Brooklyn
  • North Country Zine Fest, Plattsburgh
  • East Village Zine Fair, NYC
  • West NY Zine Fest, Buffalo
  • Ithaca Book and Zine Fair, Ithaca
  • Upstate Art Book Fair, Kingston
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