This interactive, whirlwind session will have something for people anywhere on the zine-knowledge spectrum: people who rhyme "zine" with "wine" to long-time zine librarians.
Z Score,T Score, Percential Rank and Box Plot Graph
Anyzine You Can Do: Going DIY at Your Library
1. Anyzine You Can Do:
Going DIY at Your Library
Presented by Jenna Freedman
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2. reading time
Excerpt from
Piepmeier, Alison. Girl
Zines : Making Media,
Doing Feminism. New
York: New York
University Press, c2009.
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PhotofromAmazon
3. intro/icebreaker
Name & any affiliation you care to share.
Something you're an expert in.
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PhotofromEtsy
4. agenda
Intro to zines
Selection/acquisitions
Description & access
Outreach with zines
Instruction &
programming
Zine making
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Photo by me
5. What's a zine?
Read a zine/swap with a neighbor
and consider these questions:
●Why did this person choose to
communicate this content as a
zine?
●What is the zine about?
●How do the visual elements
complement or complicate the text?
Discuss in pairs.
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Photobyme
6. acquisitions
● Collection policies
● Inclusiveness (hint:
Brown Recluse Zine
Distro)
● Etiquette
● Distros, stores, zine
fests, individuals
● Payment
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Photo by me
8. break
Pass up your catalog card:
● things you're still
confused about
● pedagogical devices that
aren't going well for you
● anything you want me to
know before starting up
again
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Photo from Women of Library History
via OCLC
9. instruction & programming
● Zine making
● Research
● Readings
● Crafty
workshops
● Zine fests
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Photo by me, I think