Zine Libraries

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The OCAD U Zine Library is an ever-growing collection of self-published and handmade publications located in the Learning Zone at OCAD University. The collection was created to inspire, educate and entertain, to encourage collaboration between OCAD U students and to open up the world of zines for readers and creators everywhere!

Part of the Queer Graphica Collection at the University of Western Ontario

Soviet Samizdat Periodicals is a database of information about editions of classic Soviet samizdat, 1956-1986.

The Toronto Zine Library is run by a collective of zine readers, zine makers and librarians who are looking to make zines more accessible in Toronto. We believe that zines are still an important medium of communication, and that they should be cherished, protected, and promoted. 

Xpace Cultural Centre is a not-for-profit artist-run centre dedicated to providing emerging and student artists, designers, curators and writers with opportunities to showcase their work.

Fanzinoteca Espigadoras • Lab de Imprenta colaborativa-Archivo de publicaciones experimentales e independientes

photo-related

The Archiv der Jugendkulturen is a memory of the scenes, from science fiction, gothic and graffiti to punk, riot grrrl and techno

Die Münchner Zine Bibliothek (Munich Zine Library) ist eine selbstorganisierte, mobile Bibliothek. Sie beinhaltet über 300 Zines und selbstverlegte Druckerzeugnisse verschiedenster Genres und aus den unterschiedlichsten Sprachräumen. Somit bietet sie einen Zugang zu D.I.Y. Communities und Künstler*innen aus der ganzen Welt. Die Mobilität der Bibliothek erlaubt dieser Sammlung an verschiedene Orte zu reisen und sich je nach Ausstellungsort zu verändern und in der Größe anzupassen. 

Queer Reads Library (QRL) 流動閱酷 is a mobile collection of books and independently published zines centred around queer narratives and themes. Catalyzed by the removal of ten LGBTQ-themed children’s books from public shelves by the Hong Kong Public Library in June 2018, QRL was created in Fall 2018 to cultivate a space where queer people can gather and celebrate their narratives. In the beginning, we asked ourselves: “Where is the queer community in Hong Kong?”

We are currently collecting zines made by Hong Kong creators.

Independent library & coworking community — for emancipatory, sustainable future 

Irish & international independent publications

Archive of fanzines and self-produced books based at the Zara Library in Milan

Zine library in a vegan restaurant. Japanese/English collection. From VLU blog.

A space for zinefreaks, comicfans, zinesters, artists, and every one else who loves trans/gender/queer/PeopleOfColor comics, zines, coffee and cupcakes. 

The Zine Collection is a not for loan collection of New Zealand zines and small press comics on He Hononga | Connection, Ground Floor. Two hundred works were selected for this browsable collection. There are 7 genre headings for this collection: Art, Comic, Literary, Personal, Political, Music and Miscellaneous.

A small distro & online library/archive in Manila, cataloging, promoting and disseminating zines and printed artifacts that are independently made from the Philippines and beyond. 

Comics and fanzines

Political, feminist, queer, activist zines as well as perzines and punk zines

BALTIC Archive zine collection is an on-going project to accumulate self-published materials by artists. At present we have close to two hundred zines and are actively collecting more. Our zine collection is now searchable here on BALTIC+ and viewable by appointment to BALTIC Archive. 

Counterculture zines, women’s zines, riot grrrl zines, music zines, football zines, alternative comics. Main library website.

Punk zines, feminist zines, queer zines, perzines, political zines, and pamphlets

Lending library with materials relating to libertarian, ecological, and feminist books, pamphlets, and zines

Library of independently made zines + artist books, publications, and sketchbooks.

Twitter @edzinelibrary

Feminist, perzines, music, punk, political, comics included in the collection. The collection dates from the early 90s to present day

Art zines as well as music/personal/political zines, covering art, music, photography, politics and personal stories

Zines housed in the Joyce Layland LGBT Centre

Reference Only 

Poetry zines, art zines, radical printing, fanzines, and perzines.

Salford Zine Library is a unique archive of self published materials, currently housed at Nexus Art Café on Dale Street in Manchester.

a communal zine project that shares zines and mini publications via library boxes placed across Skye and Lochalsh.

Cultural diversity, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, as well as personal/political/arts based zines

Art zines (collage, illustration, and photography feature heavily), punk zines, fanzines, political and personal zines, comix, and poetry zines

Art zine 

Includes fanzines in their sci-fi collection

Zineopolis! Supports an arts, design & media illustration course

Zines related to architecture and the built environment

Health/medical-themed zines

The Women’s Library collection tells the story of the campaign for women’s rights and women’s equality from the beginnings of the suffrage movement to the present day. The collection includes UNESCO-recognised documents, rare books, and objects such as original suffrage banners. The majority of the material dates from the late 19th century to present day and the focus is mainly UK.

Queer Zine Library is a roaming mobile library, travelling across the UK and taking up residence in community spaces. The library is on tour for 9 months of the year, and during the remaining 3 months the zines are in storage while we catalogue the collections.

Passionately defending the value of the printed periodical, Boven constitutes the first library in all of Taiwan whose holdings consist exclusively of ’zines. Its collection of more than 10,000 publications on architecture, design, and lifestyle will surely satisfy the appetites of readers.

Includes zines from the 1994 Underground Press Conference as well as individuals' donated collections. Also known as Great Lakes Underground Press Collection, for zines acquired at the conference.

Contact Carmen Ribaudo or reference@knox.edu

Anything self-published in Chicago

Science zines to download.

Also on facebook! 

Type < zines > into the catalog.

Special collections including "zines relating to avant-garde, underground, and popular music," Blakes 7 fanzines, fan fiction, apazines, science fiction fanzines, Star Trek, Star Wars, and riot grrrl. Also zines from the Zine Machine, a vending machine full of 'em.

Comics are their specialty.

Has a small zine collection as part of its Teen Room, not cataloged.

Political, especially anarchist zines.

Stacey Palazzolo, Outreach Services, 5577 Whittaker Rd., Ypsilanti MI 48197
734-482-4110, ext. 1340; palazzolo@ypsilibrary.org

A zine library in NE MPLS encouraging zine making and conversation!

Their catalog is online at LibraryThing.

Search for subject Fanzines and you'll retrieve a list of nearly 200 bibliographic records, most representing not items about zines but zines themselves.

No zine collection link, but you can search the catalog for  "Marshall Weber Zine and Pamphlet Collection" to get all their holdings. 

"These materials were collected by Joseph Heathcott in the course of his research as an American Studies professor and urban historian. Most of the materials were published between the late 1980s and early 2000s, and include American national and regional publications as well as materials published in Canada, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere."

The Kansas City Public Library’s Missouri Valley Special Collections department houses a locally-created collection of zines, mini-comics and mail art that represent the Kansas City area’s subcultures. The collection spans the late-1990s through current day and is updated when new material is donated.

search the subject field for zines

This collection will be hyper-local and contain materials created and donated by community members.

There is an additional zine collection in the Music Library and Bill Schurk Sound Archives.

RBML actively collects zines—self-published, inexpensively made, small circulation publications. RBML has particular strengths in: LGBTQ zines from the 1980s-present;1970s-1980s punk zines; Riot Grrrl zines; and COVID-19 and quarantine zines. We are actively collecting zines with a local or regional focus (especially by OSU students or central Ohio creators); by LGBTQ writers or with an LGBTQ focus; by women writers; about women’s, gender, sexuality studies, including feminism and activism; and by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) or with a BIPOC focus. Click the link above to explore zine collections in the Special Collections Registry. Additional holdings may be found in the Library catalog.

Pop-up zine library named for Dr. Marie Equi (1872-1952), lesbian, labor, and reproductive health activist

The SMFA Library, the fine arts branch of the Tisch Library, has a growing collection of zines and other self-published ephemeral material created by SMFA students, faculty, staff, and alums and by other artists. 

Girls' zines, many from Tristan Taormino's collection.

Funded through one of the college's Toward Inclusion Diversity and Equity (TIDE) grant, the zine collection is meant as a way to affirm underrepresented identities. The first round of zines has been purchased with an intent of adding more marginalized voices to the resources already available to the Williams community. 

Zines are not cataloged, but they do circulate.

By subscription. Star Trek fanzines and slash fiction. There is also an European outpost in Austria. 

Barnard's zines reflect the Barnard College student population. We have zines by women, nonbinary people, and trans men, with a collection emphasis on zines by women of color and a newer effort to acquire more zines by trans women. We collect zines on feminism and femme identity by people of all genders. The zines are personal and political publications on activism, anarchism, body image, gender, parenting, queer community, riot grrrl, sexual assault, trans feminisms, and other topics. Our zines are at the lower end of the production level scale and typically cost $10 or less, with most of them in the $1-$5 range.

Small-scale art zine & booklet library. Contact info@bookletlibrary.org to donate art zines, bookworks and booklets.

Primary focus is Brooklyn zines.

Zines and other materials related to the riot grrrl movement.

DeWitt Wallace Periodical Room 108, Schwarzman Building, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York

They have the Factsheet Five collection.

Art zines

Zines from around Western New York circa early to mid 1990s

Zines and artist's books

Pennsylvania authors

The library for the Center for Cartoon Studies. Also has graphic novels, cartoon collections, and related ephemera.

regionally-based zines in an effort to better reflect the voices in our community and region

The collection focuses on issues that teens deal with such as sexual identity, fitting in, and mental health, as well as humor and art zines. The collection contains around 250 zines and donations are accepted. For more info, contact Brandy Erdmann 

c/o Deirdre Scaggs, King Library
The collection focuses on zines produced in or discussing the Southern United States and/or environmental issues (bikes, veganism, sustainable communities, etc.).

"Zines written and published by individuals of color or whose topics focus on racial and ethnic culture and history, civil rights, race relations, and related topics"

Zines by southern women. Zine reviews blog.

Fanzines and Amateur Press Association mailings

D.C. Punk and Indie Fanzine Collection

Includes the Sarah Dyer collection

"reading room and gathering place for zine enthusiasts"

Zines created by Texans or other Southwesterners and/or concern Texas or the Southwest; zines created by African-Americans or Latino/as in Texas or the Southwest; zines created by TAMU students or former students; and Artzines concerned with printing and/or designed as print art objects.

A radical reading library and community space located in the historic neighborhood of Jackson Ward in Richmond, Virginia. 

Areas of focus include zines written by and for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), members of the disabled community, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, minicomics, as well as art-based, political, and Los Angeles- and Altadena-centric zines.

Focus is on creative and artistic zines.

Mail: c/o Darrell Y. Hamamoto
530-752-5600
The Asian American Zine Archive at the University of California, Davis is the only repository of its kind that specializes in written and graphic expression produced by Asian Americans who either by choice or default circumvent corporate-controlled monopoly communication outlets. By appointment only.

Beautiful/Decay began as a small black and white, DIY, photocopied ‘zine in 1996, releasing three issues in its first incarnation. In 2001, it was resurrected as a full color art and design publication featuring some of the most cutting edge and exciting work by artists and designers from all over the world. 

The Che is most interested in zines addressing political and social issues, especially looking for DIY how-to guides.

Includes zines reviewed by Larry-bob Roberts for Holy Titclamps and Factsheet Five, as well as zines by other donors.

zines related to kink, BDSM, fetish, and related subcultures and queer communities

Radical periodical collection spanning the past few decades.

Online Archive of California Darby Romeo, Heavy Metal, LA Punk, Philippines and other collections

their zine tumblr

The collection spans the twentieth century, with a special emphasis on the San Francisco experience.

The Social Justice Zine Collection is curated with a social justice activism lens and specific topics that represent the scope of this collection are zine works about neurodivergence, anti-racist activism, gender, sexuality, disability activism, feminist art, Black archives, and social movement history.

This collection is particularly focused on Los Angeles zines and zines made by UCLA affiliates, including a lot of student work. 

Science fiction fanzine collection, Kirk/Spock fan fiction

Gleeson Zine Library shares the University of San Francisco's commitment to social justice movements and local community activism by collecting and loaning print zines that center BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ narratives, and own voices.

Southwest zines

Hundreds of zine titles in the papers of Boise State University English Professor Tom Trusky. The collection includes correspondence with zine creators, photographs, and planning files and exhibit materials from Trusky's zine exhibitions "Some Zines" in 1992 and "Some Zines 2" in 1996.  

Mansfield Library, attn: Special Collections Librarian or jordan.goffin@umontana.edu

Local and kid friendly zines, and others.

An archive of zines, comics and DIY publishing in Las Vegas. Now nestled in the heart of UNLV's Marjorie Barrick Museum.www.lvzinelibrary.com

Bitch Media’s mission is to provide and encourage an engaged, thoughtful feminist response to mainstream media and popular culture

Interested in zines created by people of color, women, LGBTQ individuals, individuals with disabilities and any topic/genre therein. 

Hundreds of zine titles in the papers of Boise State University English Professor Tom Trusky. The collection includes correspondence with zine creators, photographs, and planning files and exhibit materials from Trusky's zine exhibitions "Some Zines" in 1992 and "Some Zines 2" in 1996. 

We collect all kinds of zines, but are especially interested in zines that come from our region, address local and national issues, social justice topics, and/or are authored by disenfranchised or underrepresented individuals or groups. 

Shannon Peterson, 360-876-2224
Local, teen, comics, northwest zines

PDFs of out of print issues of punk zines including Flipside, HeartattaCk, Maximumrocknroll, and Suburban Voice.

In the Teen Center at the downtown library: contact teencenter@spl.org
University Branch: contact Kristy Gale

Interested in local zines made by BIPOC, queer, trans, and non-binary folks about disability, creativity, or STEM as well as how-to zines and cooking zines.

The Zine Archive and Publishing Project (ZAPP) was a volunteer-driven living archive of over 30,000 self-published materials, a DIY resource and educational center committed to supporting underheard voices from around the world, maintaining and validating publications outside the literary mainstream.

The Austin Fanzine Project started as a relatively straightforward digitization and transcription project  intended to improve access to the documents of a recently-historical subculture – the Austin, Texas underground music scene of the 1990s. It has since blossomed into a sandbox for creative experimentation with digital archives and digital humanities methods and tools.

contact danielaedias@gmail.com

Comic books covers and some pdfs

Heavy Metal global underground fanzines from the 80's and early 90's, indexed, searchable and fully readable online.

Science fiction fanzines (twitter @efanzines)

Florida Association for Nucleations and Conventions: 1930-present

"A virtual archive of mini-comics, fanzines, small press comics, newave comix and related items. The physical archive, housed at PF headquarters, is being built with personal acquisitions as well as generous donations from supporters. This project is most definitely a work in progress."

Punk Planet was a 16,000 print run punk zine, based in Chicago, Illinois, that focused most of its energy on looking at punk subculture rather than punk as simply another genre of music to which teenagers listen. In addition to covering music, Punk Planet also covered visual arts and a wide variety of progressive issues — including media criticism, feminism, and labor issues.

The Queer Indonesia Archive is a digital archiving project committed to the collection, preservation and celebration of material reflecting the lives and experiences of queer Indonesia.

Queer zines available in PDF for download.

Death/thrash/grind/black metal fanzine scans from yesteryear

Collection of downloadable PDFs and links to online readable zines

A collaboration of scientists, artists, students, and anyone else interested in science, this project produces small zines and web comics on a variety of topics. Read online, download zines, and share your ideas.

Writings and artwork depicting feminism and women's issues in zines created at Chapman University.

The Library of Congress has a growing collection of zines. The Zine Web Archive was created to supplement the physical zine collection. In general, zines are: self-published, self-created, self-distributed, and non-commercial. The independent nature of these publications allows for an unprecedented freedom of expression, and as such, these materials are incredibly valuable primary source materials. Collection priorities include zines by people of color, women, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ and transgender and gender non-conforming individuals and organizations. Subjects and perspectives which have been traditionally underrepresented in mainstream media (and therefore libraries) are also a high priority for collection. For questions related to the Library of Congress Zine Collection, e-mail zines@loc.gov.

social justice themed 

A traveling Zine Library/Press