(un)intentional community: queer zines in an institutional context

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(un)intentional community queer zines in an
institutional context

• The Zine Collection at Barnard College
• presented by Jenna Freedman
• GLBT ALMS 2008

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why zines?

• Primary sources
• Under-documented subcultures
• Unmediated rendition
• Print culture
• Zine community

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What's so gay about Barnard's collection?

• What I'm doing here
• Queer and trans zines
• Academic library collection
• Community building
• Zine Librarians Yahoo! Group
• Zine Libraries website
• Zine reviews column in Library Journal

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collection basics scope

• Self-identified women
• Urban
• Women of color
• Riot grrrl/third-wave feminism

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collection basics access

• Cataloged in OPAC
• Archives
• Approximately 1380 titles (5/2/08)
• Paged to reference or used in archives
• Stacks
• 809 issues (5/2/08)
• Open stacks
• Circulate
• ILL
• Non Barnard/Columbia affiliates by appointment

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contact and links

• Barnard
• http//barnard.edu/library/zines
• http//barnardzines.livejournal.com
• zines_at_barnard.edu, 212.854.4615, IM
  BarnardLibJenna
• http//www.barnard.edu/library/zines/links.htmcit
  e
• Other resources
• http//groups.yahoo.com/group/zinelibrarians
• http//zinelibraries.info
• http//www.barnard.edu/library/zines/zinesnotblogs
  .htm
• http//jenna.openflows.com/talks/2008/glbtalms