Looking forward to this free webinar, History of Zines (+ Free Speech), presented by Colin Wheeler and Pete Rorabaugh at Kansas State University. It’s on Wednesday September 2nd. The webinar is part of their Experts on DIY Publishing series, which goes through November and culminates in a zine party with attendees having the chance to learn about different aspects of DIY publishing by visiting various stations within a collaborative space in the library. Other webinars in the series include a Remixing the Book panel on September 30th and Teaching with Zines on October 14th.![]()
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Free webinar on Georgia State University Library’s zine initiatives
The webinar “Have You Zine This?: Georgia State University Library’s Zine Initiative” was presented by Jennie Law, Charlene Martoni, & Anna Wodny earlier this month. You can view the webinar slides and recording at the Georgia Library Association’s Carterette Series site. Particularly helpful are the budgets that detail how much the library spent on initial setup for circulating and in-house zine-making kits. The presenters also share ideas for zine workshop themes and info about their zine analysis assignment, where they ask students to consider the visual elements, purpose, and audience of a zine in the GSU collections.
Zine Rubrics
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
