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What's a zine?
Here are some ideas on what makes a zine a zine:
From Papercut Zine Library in Boston:
A zine can be loosely defined as an underground publication that is independently produced and self-published, typically photocopied. People make zines out if a desire to share stories, knowledge, thoughts, opinions, and experiences. Zines are made for love, not for profit.
From the Sally Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture:
Zines are not easily defined. They can be a messy hodgepodge of personal thoughts or an expertly designed political treatise. They can fit easily into a pocket or take up an entire 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper. They can be heavily collaged or minimalist; colored or black-and-white; handwritten or typed; stapled, sewn, or loose. The unifying thread is their outside-of-the-mainstream existence as independently written, produced, and distributed media that value freedom of expression and freedom from rules above all else.
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - Main Zine Collection Blog on Wordpress
This blog provides information about the zine collection at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - Main, as well as information about zines and zine collections elsewhere.
Zines in Our Collection
The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Main Zine Collection is made up of the donated Comic Release zine collection, which focuses heavily on comics and art zines, and the general adult zine collection, which also has literary, personal, and various types of informational zines, for example zines on activism, biking, gardening, and zine librarianship. We try to have a collection that is balanced across subject areas. We do have some zines in the collection because of their historical significance, but we have more contemporary zines than archival material.
Our zines are located in a nook on the right-hand side of the First Floor as you enter from the main lobby. The zines cannot be checked out, but you can read them anywhere in the library.
The zines are cataloged on LibraryThing if you'd like to see what zines we have in the collection or search for a particular title.
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If you'd like to sign up to be on our zines email list, send an email saying so to vachonj@carnegielibrary.org. We'll let you know when we add zines to the collection and also when we are having any zine-related events. We have about four or five zine programs per year.
We accept some zine donations. Contact us at the email above for more info.
ZINE RESOURCES:
A zine is a self-published, noncommercial publication about anything by anyone.
A sampling from the Bikes category of the adult zine collection. They touch on bike repair, bike trips, BMX bike culture, and women and cycling.
Zines are a great source of information about health issues. There are also a number of zines that feature compelling stories of people's personal experiences with illness.
These zines deal with social change and are located in the Zine Collection on the First Floor of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Main.
These zines contain stories about various kinds of traveling. Find them in the Zine Collection on the First Floor of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh-Main. Browse Zines at LibraryThing
These zines address issues of education, teaching, and schools.
Find these zines about various occupations in the Zine Collection on the First Floor of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - Main.
> Click here for instructions on how to make a zine
GENERAL ZINE WEBSITES:
- Allegheny County Library Association Youth Services Zines Resources
- Google Maps Map of Zine Libraries in the U.S.
- http://www.zinewiki.com/
- http://zinelibrary.info/
- http://grrrlzines.net/
- http://zines.barnard.edu/
ONLINE ZINE GROUPS:
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/grrrlzinenetwork/
- http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=zines
- http://wemakezines.ning.com/
