We are sad to report that the Zine Librarians unConference was attended by a non-zine librarian in bad faith. She recorded the event without permission and posted her recordings. Please read the organizers’ statement about the violation.
This weekend, November 8 & 9 (in many time zones), is the something annual Zine Librarians unConference, which is fully online this year! https://www.zinelibraries.info/wiki/zluc2025
Registration is closed for this year. Stay tuned for info about ZLuC 2026, which we expect to be a combination of online with regional meetups. We wish we could all be in person, but traveling these days is more fraught than ever. ????
The ZLuC 2026 location committee decided that we need to recognize that many in our community likely have anxiety around travel in the current political climate in the US.
banner from https://cantzine.ca/
Broken Pencil magazine, as it turns out, is published by a genocide denier, Hal Niedzviecki. Per a call for Niedzviecki to resign and for Broken Pencil to adopt the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, Continue reading
I’m sharing this post by Charissa (Wasted Ink Distro) from Facebook to Latine folks selling zines and zine librarians and others buying zines. Zine librarians might want to avoid buying items from collectors anyway, but this one in particular…
Please be on the lookout for Alfonso Vijil from Libros Latinos at your zine fests. We’ve recently learned he’s been buying zines, specifically from BIPOC creators and then turns around and sells them for 3-5x the original cost to libraries without telling the zine maker or paying them the profit. He was at LA Zine Fest buying zines and was seen as recently as this past weekend at an event buying zines.
Lauren and Jenna, along with our transcendent meeting facilitator Sara Yukimoto-Saltman, are planning the NEH Chairs Award-funded ZineCat Planning Meeting to take place at Barnard College on August 5th & 6th, 2024. Continue reading
Want to make a zine, but don’t know what to write about? Here are more than 100 prompts from a zine librarian. Continue reading
This is a summary of a discussion about teaching with and evaluating zines on the zine librarians email list. Zine librarians recognize that grading zines at all is controversial.
Cat with a Rubik’s Cube from Wikimedia Commons
Lilith Cooper of the Edinburgh Zine Library, who is working on a PhD at the University of Kent with Wellcome, has shared their presentation and paper on the ethics of doing research with zines.
The International Zine Librarians unConference 2020 was a breathtaking experience and collaboration. Let’s document how we made it happen and our feels about it.
We want to cover the topics listed on this spreadsheet and welcome others. Contributions can take the form of narratives, lists, recipes, limericks, comics, or whatever you’ve got, but note that the mission is providing documentation for next time. You can layout your own piece or leave the design to the co-editors. Just be sure to leave us a nice margin!
Faciliator: Kelly M
Notes: Jenna
Attending: André, April, Ella, Jenna, Kelly, Kelsey, Matthew, Milo, Ziba
Here are the notes from our meeting! Action items highlighted.
Faciliator: Kelly M
Notes: Jenna
Attending: André, Ella, Jenna, Kelly M., Kelsey, Lilith, Matthew, Milo, Ziba (at the very end)
Facilitator: Jenna
Notes: Matthew
Present: André, April, Jenna, Lauren, Lilith, Matthew, Milo, Ziba (I think we’re missing someone?)
Icebreaker: free chit chat on mundane topics
Timeline & to do check-ins
This page has moved! It’s here now.
Screen cap of zine librarian on Zoom
On Saturday 19th September, 22.00 – 22.30 UTC we held a meeting of representatives from all the different spokes (working groups) working on organising IZL(u)C. The meeting was facilitated by Lilith, notes were taken by Kelly M. In attendance were Ziba and Milo (Outreach and Promotion), Matthew (Technology), Kelly S, Kelsey and Ella (Programming), Kelly M and Lilith (Co-ordinating)
