Locating the Disconnected:

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• Locating the Disconnected
• Zines in Academic Libraries
• www.barnard.edu/library/zines/talks/nwsa.ppt
• National Women's Studies Association
• Annual Conference 2006
• Jenna Freedman
• Coordinator of Reference Services
• and Zine Librarian
• Barnard College

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what is a zine?

• Rhymes with spleen
• Name derives from magazine or fanzine
• Self-published
• Small, self-distributed print run
• Motivated by desire to express oneself
• Outside the mainstream
• Low budget

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what is a zine, part 2

• Form
• Content
• Creators

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riot grrrl other research

• Primary source material
• Third Wave feminism
• Riot Grrrl
• Single events (e.g. 9/11, RNC 2004)
• Popular culture

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libraries' role in zinedom

• Including un/underrepresented voices
• Preserving a cultural movement
• Adding legitimacy

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some resources

• Barnard Zine Collection
• Home http//www.barnard.edu/library/zines
• Links http//www.barnard.edu/library/zines/links.h
  tm
• Comparison with blogs http//www.barnard.columbia.
  edu/library/zines/zinesnotblogs.htm
• Zine History
• Wright, Fred. The History and Characteristics of
  Zines. The Zine E-Zine Resource Guide. 1997.
  http//www.zinebook.com/resource/wright1.html
• Zineology by Chris Dodge, Street Librarian
• http//www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/7423/zines.html