This interactive, whirlwind session will have something for people anywhere on the zine-knowledge spectrum: people who rhyme "zine" with "wine" to long-time zine librarians.

1. Anyzine You Can Do:
Going DIY at Your Library
Presented by Jenna Freedman
METRO #metrozines

2. reading time
Excerpt from
Piepmeier, Alison. Girl
Zines : Making Media,
Doing Feminism. New
York: New York
University Press, c2009.
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PhotofromAmazon

3. intro/icebreaker
Name & any affiliation you care to share.
Something you're an expert in.
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PhotofromEtsy

4. agenda
 Intro to zines
 Selection/acquisitions
 Description & access
 Outreach with zines
 Instruction &
programming
 Zine making
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Photo by me

5. What's a zine?
Read a zine/swap with a neighbor
and consider these questions:
●Why did this person choose to
communicate this content as a
zine?
●What is the zine about?
●How do the visual elements
complement or complicate the text?
Discuss in pairs.
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Photobyme

6. acquisitions
● Collection policies
● Inclusiveness (hint:
Brown Recluse Zine
Distro)
● Etiquette
● Distros, stores, zine
fests, individuals
● Payment
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Photo by me

7. cataloging
● Cataloging
● Finding aids
● Circulation
● Shelving
● Supplies
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PhotooftheDenverZineLibraryby
ColoradoCollege,TuttLibrary

8. break
Pass up your catalog card:
● things you're still
confused about
● pedagogical devices that
aren't going well for you
● anything you want me to
know before starting up
again
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Photo from Women of Library History
via OCLC

9. instruction & programming
● Zine making
● Research
● Readings
● Crafty
workshops
● Zine fests
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Photo by me, I think

10. Outreach
● Informational
● Referency
● Newsy
● Mappy
● Compare zines &
other outreach
publications
@barnlib #metrozines Photo by the Barnard Zine Club

11. make a zine
● One-page folding
zine
● Make zines
● Make copies
● Trade
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Photo by Annie Soga from zinecats Tumblr

12. links & stuff
● Barnard Zine Library
– zines.barnard.edu
– @barnlib
● List of zine libraries worldwide, including the internet
zines.barnard.edu/zine-libraries
● Using CLIO to find zines clio.columbia.edu/catalog
● Jenna
– lowereastsidelibrarian.info
– jfreedman@barnard.edu @barnlib #metrozines