Zine Clubs/Volunteers/Students/Outreach
-Â Â Â Â Â Â What would a zine club encompass? What do you do with a club? Advice for getting started?
Madeleine has been working with a zine club at New Paltz. Can go hand in hand with starting a collection for the library. Input from creators and users.
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Has a zine collective
-      Not seeking funding – separate from university
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Write little grants, find other funding streams
-      Zine Collective has wish list spreadsheet with titles, how accessible – digitally?…
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Between 3 and 9 members
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Arc of energy over semester difficult
-Â Â Â Â Â Â 2 members now paid to do cataloging, etc.
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Working out separateness/collaboration from library
-      Session member – extend out to community? To sustain over course of semester? M liked this idea.
Papercut
-Â Â Â Â Â Â has internal collective
-Â Â Â Â Â Â staff library twice a month and come to 2 at least 2 meetings
-Â Â Â Â Â Â plan events, fundraising
-      had initiated monthly zine talks – librarians shared about their interests/focus e.g. music zines, Papercut history… discontinued bc of move
-Â Â Â Â Â Â make zine together
-Â Â Â Â Â Â organizing Zinefest
Kelly
-Â Â Â Â Â Â likes idea of Zine Club but feels weird telling students to organize themselves
-      makes the offer but not always taken up (Madeleine did a workshop and lecture with Jenna F and Jacinda (?) and this generated excitement among students – she thinks that the two students who are cataloging are invested and engaged and may recruit others
Create a LibGuide?
Ways to connect people to the collection besides club?
Zine swaps – bring your one-pager, do swaps separately or as part of readings
24-hour zine thing?
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Pop up zine library in community art space
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Zine-making table available all the time
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Table at zine fairs with zine-making stuff
-               Glue sticks, stencils, stickers, stamps, markers… magazines
-               Zine reading hangouts – bring parts of collection out to community e.g. queer zines, …
-               Academics – reaching out to student advocacy groups? Kelly – student health collaboration e.g. bring related zines to drag show, sexual violence awareness month
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Pop up library at Kathleen Hanna docu
-               People can make a zine about anything anywhere – expands demographics
-               Papercut tabled at farmer’s market – people wrote favorite recipes made with csa contents
-      How do people access zines now? – Tumblr promotion, some comic book shops and record stores, online distros, etsy, zine fests
-      Kelly M tells students where they can sell their zines – don’t just turn them in to their professor, share otherwise
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Kelly W when invited by faculty to do outreach, sometimes no attendance, timing issue? No student buy in, how is it pitched?
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Plug in terms of having a voice, authoring your experience
-      This is something you’re already doing, let’s add zines to the toolbox
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Getting people in the door is the tricky part, not getting people to engage in a workshop
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Explaining what the process will look like to reduce intimidation
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Call it a pamphlet
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Sex zines and sexual health zines are great for student health outreach
-      Consent zines are strong, too – another way to connect with students about something they may not want to talk about
-      Why read a zine about herpes vs going to student health center? – info literacy potential in talking about reading personal experience
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Public health pamphlets for migrant workers might be considered zines, with comics
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Anonymity of zines as opposed to blog, students respond to that
Zines as Social Media for Introverts!
Action Item -Â Review Zine on Sexual Health Zines
Kelly M will be our fist pumper
Kimberly, Jude, Madeleine, will work on this
we could bring sexual health educators into the conversation
Action Item 2 – post zine-making workshop outlines on wiki
Working with instructors on the issue of grading zines is really important! e.g. grading perzines?! Â Make zine as first step to paper, as paper, or response to topic after paper-writing??
