Zine Reviews: Column Theme Ideas

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Here are suggestions from the zine reviewers list of potential column themes. Please add your own and/or comment on those already here. Also comment if you would like to edit a particular themed column.

  • zines by genre (e.g. personal zines, DIY zines, mamazines)
  • transgender zines
  • zines by teens
  • zines for teens
  • zines by people of color
  • punk zines
  • queer zines
  • women’s issues (e.g. health, self-defense, feminism)
  • metazines (e.g. review zines)
  • travel
  • minicomics [maybe not technically zines, but i think there’s a lot of potential here — there’s so many great self-published autobio comics these days, and highlighting these would also demonstrate that there’s more to comics than “graphic novels & manga”]
  • work/job
  • “weird & wonderful” (or something like that, that’s a little cheesy, but I’m thinking it might be nice to do a grab-bag column that highlights all those zines that don’t fit nicely into the categories we’ve already mentioned)
  • Zine library zines
  • cooking zines
  • comic zines
  • zines with interactive qualities (choose your own adventure, coloring books, popups, scavenger hunts, etc)
  • infoshop/collective zines (like the long haul infoshop zine or the Hard Times Cafe zine)
  • DIY/craft zines
  • Under the women’s issues category, there is so much just focusing around menstration, tampons, make your own menstrual pads, that this could be its own subcategory
  • History zines
  • Art zines
  • Zines exclusively left places for lucky people to find, not sold through distros
  • Bus riding/public transport zines
  • Zines that come with freebies (gum, trading card, sticker, tattoo, bubble test)
  • Zines that turned into magazines or even books
  • international zines
  • science zines (please please please choose this I have a couple of great ideas!)
  • daddyzines
  • travel zines (like travel memoirs or whatever, not like the zine version of Frommer’s)
  • zines from/about X town city state or other location
  • zines about sex
  • zines for children
  • zines by children
  • books about zines (anthologies, how-to-make-zines books, etc.)
  • Pet zines (about or on animal health)
  • Zines about religion
  • poetry/fiction/literary zines
  • lifestyle zines (e.g. pro-firearm, sustenance and survival, bicycling, dwelling portably)
  • mental health
  • zine distros
  • split zines

Zine LCSH Cataloging Resource

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Since there hasn’t been much talk on here yet, I thought I’d post about something I’ve been working on–an online list of the Library of Congress Subject Headings I’ve applied to zines at Barnard. I’d like to make the list more collaborative or improve it in any other way y’all can suggest. So please…suggest away.Advice from catalogers welcome, as I’m just making this up as I go along, more or less.

Zine Librarian Meetup at ALA Annual 2007

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Breakwells CoffeeThe zine libraries interest group met at ALA Annual 2007 in Washington DC. We met at Breakwells Coffee, a cute little coffee shop across the street from the Washington, DC convention Center. The service was A + Excellent! The owner waited on our tables, regardless of the long lunch line. Because we had made a reservation to use the facility for a meeting, the owner wanted us to have top service!

The primary topic of interest was the zine libraries web site. We planned out the pages that would be needed on the web site, discussed concerns, and then assigned content for development.

Below are some notes from the meeting, in rich Text format:

alaannual2007zligmeeting.rtf