The Barnard College Zine Collection

Lenny Adler
Pratt MLIS Candidate
Spring 2011
The History of The Barnard Zine
Collection
Established by Jenna Freedman- Head of Research
Services and an active member in Radical Reference
and a zine author herself- see The Lower East Side
Librarian.
The Zine Canon
Zines are historically independent publications
produced at little to no cost to the creator- with the
intention of free or inexpensive distribution and sale.
The originally sprang out of the idea of the “fanzine”
and were large in the underground punk movements
of the late 70’s and early 80’s.
Later they would be instrumental in not only music,
but in underground political movements in the United
States and abroad.
Zines in Education
Art focused hands on educational tools

Useful in all disciplines from world history, to gender

studies, race studies, and literature.
Zine Cataloguing
Barnard generates MARC records for zine titles
Searchable in the “CLEO” system at Barnard and
Columbia
Available for Interlibary Loan
Borrow-Direct Service amongst the Ivy’s.

See Also-
Zine Wiki, ABC NO RIO Zine Library, The IPRC
The Future of Zines
More Zine Libraries
More online integration of zines in digital form

ZINES ARE NOT BLOGS

Contemporary Zine Culture
ABC NO RIO
The Fales Library Riot Grrrl Collection
NYPL
Bluestockings
Microcosm Publishing
AK Press

Galleries and Arts Organizations- The Franklin

Furnace,A.I.R. Gallery, Exit Art, etc.
My Projects at Barnard
Zine Exhibit under the Auspices of the Barnard Zine
Collection for the Barnard Center for Research on
Women
Zine Assessment Project

Barnard Zine Library Zine Production

Bust Magazine Project

Finding Aid for Jenna Freedman’s Zine Correspondences.

Zine Resources
NYPL ZINE PAGE
ABC NO RIO
Bluestockings
For the Birds
WikiZineLibrary.info
POC Zine Project
Queer Zine Archive Project
Radical Reference
Selective Bibliography
Garrison, Ednie Kach. "U.S. Feminism-Grrrl Style! Youth (Sub)Cultures and the
Technologics of the Third Wave". Feminist Studies Vol. 26, No. 1 (Spring, 2000), pp.
141-170    

 Roberto, K. R. ed. "Radical Cataloging: Essays at the Front" Reviewed

work(s): Radical Cataloging: Essays at the Front by K. R.  Roberto The Library
Quarterly  
 Rosenberg, Jessica and Gitana Garafolo. "Riot Grrrl: Revolutions from
Within". Signs. Vol. 23, No. 3, Feminisms and Youth Cultures (Spring, 1998), pp. 809-
841

Yang, Fang-chih Irene. "Beautiful-and-Bad Woman: Media Feminism and the Politics
of Its Construction". Feminist Studies.Vol. 33, No. 2 (Summer, 2007), pp. 361-383