Abstract
Recent attention has been paid to collecting born-digital, nontraditional, self-published forms, such as blogs and tweets. However, what of print-based, nontraditional, self-published materials? Before there were blogs, there were zines. Zines, much like blogs and tweets, are a challenging and difficult material to collect, but upon consideration of the concepts of Sandy Berman and James Danky, the onus is on academic libraries to have zine collections. An examination of ARL and CARL websites indicates that zine collecting is not a widespread practice in academic libraries; this article argues that, even in our contemporary digital, social-networked era, it should be.
Highlights
The term ‘zine’ refers to publications of varying physical form and quality, often consisting merely of several photocopied pages stapled together by the author and containing anything from comics and art to poetry and political discussion
10 It is a possibility that other Quebec Public Interest Research Groups (QPIRGs) and Ontario Public Interest Research Groups (OPIRGs) collections are represented in their institution’s respective Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC), but these cases fall outside of the scope of the specific Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) libraries under examination in this paper
Concluding Remarks As the above discussion has remained relatively abstract, an avenue for future investigation based on and suggested by the above research is examining the concrete ties between the work of Berman and Danky and the impetus for zine collecting in academic libraries
Summary
Doi:10.1080/00987913.2014.891866 http://hdl.handle.net/1880/51967 journal article http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Attribution 4.0 International Downloaded from PRISM: https://prism.ucalgary.ca.
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