ZineWiki is an open-source encyclopedia devoted to zines and independent media. It covers the history, production, distribution and culture of the small press. You can find information here on specific zines - titles, authors, how long they ran, etc.
This annual conference is a great opportunity to connect with other zine librarians and get ideas for how to build, manage and share collections. This year it's in Boston on July 29-30th.
The subtitle of the book containing this chapter being Library and Information Skills in Social Justice Movements and Beyond, this essay is about informing and empowering library workers with subject expertise in zines (or another special collections area) to do their own cataloging.
This is a great resource for subject terms not well covered by the Library of Congress Subject Headings. The subject terms in the Zine Thesaurus were selected by volunteer cataloguers at the Anchor Archive and compiled into a thesaurus by Amanda Stevens. You can send in your suggestions / proposed edits.
The Zine Librarians Code of Ethics zine, a collaborative document that incorporates input from dozens of zine librarians in various settings, provides some useful considerations around collection building, access, and cataloging among other topics.
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