ny art book fair barnard zines

How: Building and Maintaining the Zine Collection at Barnard College

The Zine Collection at Barnard Collegepresented by Jenna Freedman

NY Art Book Fair Conference, 2009

Fardig, Lauren Michele. Arrowed, #9. 2000.

why zines?

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

Diaspora, Nia. Borderlands, #2: It's a Family Affair. 2009?

collection basics: the proposal

• All I did was ask, and...• Sketch out

– Collection development– Processing/cataloging– Access– Preservation– Budget/funding/staff time– Literature review– Pros & cons– Action plan

• Didn't, but should have: outreach and programming

links

• "AACR2—Bendable but Not Flexible: Cataloging Zines at Barnard College." in Radical Cataloging: Essays at the Front.

• Why Zines Matter by Alison Piepmeier• Zine Librarians Yahoo! Group• Zine Libraries website, including Zine

Librarian Zine• Zine reviews column in Library Journal• Zines Are Not Blogs

Detail of "The Zine Scene and College Knowledge" exhibit, curated and installed by Barnard student Jennie Rose Halperin.

contact and more links

Barnard• http://barnard.edu/library/zines• http://www.flickr.com/photos/barnardzinelibrary • http://barnardzines.livejournal.com• zines@barnard.edu, 212.854.4615, IM BarnardLibJenna• http://www.barnard.edu/library/zines/links.htm#cite

This talk: http://jenna.openflows.com/talks/nyartbookfair

I's all that

and a boxa zeens