ny art book fair barnard zines
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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• [email protected], 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