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Festival Report: Brooklyn Zine Fest 2013

Yesterday, I attended the second annual Brooklyn Zine Fest held at Public Assembly in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The event was packed with tablers and with visitors, an impressively successful event.  Tablers ranged from independent zine authors displaying their own zines to zine distros to zine librarians (Barnard represented) to arts organizations. It was an impressive …

Posted a month ago by Anne Hays

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Zines at the ALA convention

As the New York Times noted last year, zine-making is on the rise, as evidenced not only by the number of new zines in circulation, but by the number of academic libraries starting zine collections. Zine libraries in the New York City area include: Barnard Brooklyn College, CUNY NYU's riot grrrl collection and the independent …

Posted 12 months ago by Anne Hays

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I’ll hold this then you’ll hold this

Title: Imaginary Windows, Issue #4 Author: Erin Fae Where to find it: Barnard Library Call number: ZINES F33i no.4 I’ll hold this, then you’ll hold this. I encountered the most lovely zine at the Barnard Library zine collection last week: a zine called imaginary windows by a Brooklyn resident named Erin Fae.  I picked it …

Posted 19 months ago by Anne Hays

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Zines as Teaching Aides

If your goal in teaching is to inspire your class to create works of text or art, you might consider using zines as teaching aides.  Alison Piepmeier, author of Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism, reports that, “Every time I teach a class about zines, a significant percentage of the students begin making their own. …

Posted 21 months ago by Anne Hays

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