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Zine talk presented on the 31st October 2013 at the ALIA National Library & Information Technicians Symposium 2013 held at the National Library of Australia.
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Cataloguers – adventurers of the library world!
Elaine Bulluss & Debbie Cox
Zines: what are they and a potted zine history
What is a zine?
• Name abbreviation of maga{zine}
• Underground publications
• Small i.e. Usually less than 20 pages
• Usually self-published
• Non-commercial
• Monograph or serial
• Be: – About anything
– Made by anything
Zines
“Zines may assume a recognisably magazine derived format (evidencing their etymological
origins) or be something else print-based entirely. Zines may be sequential, an ongoing
series, or a one off creation”.
Eloise Peace (Zine creator)
Zinesters
• Can be anybody who:
– Creates and/or collects zines
– And/or runs zine distros
• Uncensored creators
Eurovision Song Contest Zines
Zine distros and events
Quick Zine History
• Gutenberg Press 1450: pamphlets, chapbooks and tracts = zines??
• 1920’s to 1960’s golden age of the Fanzine
• 1970’s alternative music scene, mainly Punk
• 1990’s Riot Grrl movement
• Late 1990’s death and rebirth
• 21st Century: Bio-zines, Perzines and lots more
Fanzines
Punk/Queer zine Political zine
Perzine Art zines
Other notable things about zines
• Social networks very important
• Zine making is a culture
• Content ranges from literary to trashy
• Production values range from professional to basic
• Can aim to provoke
• Most zinesters are under 30
How zines are treated at the National Library
Collecting The NLA:
• Does not rely on Legal Deposit to collect zines
• Collects a representative range of zines
• Has acquired several formed collections of zines
Collecting
Cataloguing
• Each zine is catalogued individually with a full record
• Zines often lack many of the most basic publication details i.e. Enumeration, pagination, statements of responsibilities etc.
• Our cataloguer’s judgement is exercised regularly
Internet resources
Internet resources
Internet resources and events
“Goldfish acid”
“1:25pm, City park, under tree. Raining”
In-house tools
Cataloguing Zines - Other issues
• Privacy
• Preservation
• End processing
Preservation
No Staples Please!
End processing
The Fringe Publishing Blog
• National Library Blog
• Communicating to Zinesters
• Advertising zines and other fringe material in our collection
“Cyaegha”
Zine reading
Questions?