Audio report from Zine Pavilion 2019

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Zine librarian Matthew Murray was featured as one of the co-organizers of this year’s Zine Pavilion on episode 26 of the HiJinx podcast, produced by the Howard County Public Library (Maryland). The podcast was recorded entirely at the American Library Association conference in DC in June, and Matthew talks about zines and zine culture, discusses the differences between zines and blogs, and shares his thoughts on the value of the zine community. Matthew is featured from minute 2:35 through 10:18; take a listen!

DIYempathiZine

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Over on Ye Olde Yahoo email list, librarian Mimosa Shah recently shared a collaborative zine (created by Jason Alderman, Elizabeth Bouton, Rachel Ropeik, Mimosa Shah, and Beck Tench) created for MCN 2018 (the annual conference of the Museum Computer Network). It’s titled DIYempathiZINE and consists of empathy building activities to use in a library or museum. Check out the free pdf and print off a copy to use in your institution!

cover image of zine reading "Empathy Jam. EmpathiZINE, MCN 2018"

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Zine Pavilion at ALA Annual 2019

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Headed to the American Library Association conference in Washington DC? Please plan on joining us at the Zine Pavilion! Find us at booth 2947 on the exhibit hall floor. Check out our extensive list of events here. We’ll have over 30 zinesters from the DC area and beyond: find zinester profiles at the Zine Pavilion Tumblr and keep up with our shenanigans at the @ZinePavilion Twitter account!

July is International Zine Month

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Get ready for International Zine Month 2019! Every year, zinester Alex Wrekk (founder of IZM and author of Stolen Sharpie Revolution) creates a flyer that highlights zine-related activities to do each day in July. July 21 is Zine Library Day, traditionally observed by visiting your nearest zine library/archive and by purchasing pastries for your favorite zine librarian.

Check out this year’s flyer, available for download, and use the hashtag #IZM2019 to share your celebrations!

IZM flyer with a list of zine-related activities to celebrate each day in July

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ZLuC 2019 registration now open

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Registration for the 2019 Zine Librarians unConference is now open! You can sign up here: https://forms.gle/LWkFC1VNKYRQ91T46.

ZLuC 2019 is taking place in Salt Lake City, Utah from July 19-20, 2019. As always, ZLuC is free to attend and all are welcome! For more information about the event, check out the ZLuC page and be sure to be a part of the conversation on the Zine Librarians Yahoo email list.

Zine libraries featured on Unladylike podcast

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Episode 48 of Unladylike podcast (“How to Zine It Yourself”) features the zinesters Isabel Ann Castro and Natasha I Hernandez of St. Sucia Zine, as well as Jenna Freedman of the Barnard Zine Library.

Cristen and Caroline share their thoughts on having a zine collection at a library: “That was an inspiring thing about being at the library and being surrounded by what basically looked like pieces of copier stapled together, but being in a ‘real library’ and around the corner from literally the classics, Jenna’s telling the world by having this collection that these zines are just as valuable as all those other books and all those other ways of knowing.”unladyzine graphic for episode 48 of Unladylike podcast

ZLuC 2019 POC Travel Grant

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Every year, the zine libraries community raises money to help a person of color attend the Zine Librarians unConference (ZLuC). This year’s ZLuC will be held July 19 and 20 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Registration for all attendees is free; this grant is intended to help with associated travel and/or childcare costs. We will have low-cost housing available (details announced soon), and homestay options to help defray housing costs.

If you are Black, Indigenous, and/or a POC and would like to apply for the ZLuC 2019 POC Travel Grant, please apply here: http://tinyurl.com/ZLuC2019travelgrant. Recipients of the ZLuC 2018 travel grant are not eligible for this year’s grant, but previous years’ recipients/applicants are welcome to apply.

If you’re able to support the ZLuC 2019 POC Travel Grant with funding, please send donations via Paypal to juliahuddleston[at the] gmail [dot] com. There’s also a Paypal donation button on the sidebar of this site. If you’d prefer to contribute without using Paypal, please email the address above and we’ll figure out an alternate method.

If you’re not able to donate funds right now, please help by spreading the word!

Applications and donations will be accepted until Sunday March 30, 2019. All applicants will be contacted by Monday April 15.

Donate to the 2019 ZLuC POC travel grant

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We’re now accepting monetary donations for the travel grant to support the attendance of People of Color at this year’s Zine Librarians unConference, happening in Salt Lake City, Friday July 19th and Saturday July 20th. You can send funds via PayPal to juliahuddleston [at] gmail, or email for alternate arrangements. The “donate” button on the sidebar of this site will also send donations to the correct account.

This year’s ZLuC POC travel grant selection committee is Joshua Barton, Christina Benson, Jolie Braun, Rose Chou, and Juli Huddleston. Stay tuned for the application form!