Zine Libraries
Canada
Bilingual (Français/English)
Part of the Queer Graphica Collection at the University of Western Ontario
Ireland
Irish & international independent publications
Japan
Small-scale art zine & booklet library. Contact info@bookletlibrary.org to donate art zines, bookworks and booklets.
Zine library in a vegan restaurant. Japanese/English collection. From VLU blog.
Netherlands
more than 1000 international zines collected over a period of 25 years
feminist, queer and poc zines and comics
Philippines
Spain
Comics and fanzines
United Kingdom
Political, feminist, queer, activist zines as well as perzines and punk zines
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
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.
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
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
Lending library of zines and comix
Online Libraries
Queer zines available in PDF for download.
Death/thrash/grind/black metal fanzine scans from yesteryear
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.
Illinois
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.
Anything self-published in Chicago
Science zines to download.
Indiana
Type < zines > into the catalog.
Iowa
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.
Michigan
Political, especially anarchist zines.
Comics are their specialty.
Has a small zine collection as part of its Teen Room, not cataloged.
Stacey Palazzolo, Outreach Services, 5577 Whittaker Rd., Ypsilanti MI 48197
734-482-4110, ext. 1340; palazzolo@ypsilibrary.org
Minnesota
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.
Missouri
"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."
search the subject field for zines
Ohio
There is an additional zine collection in the Music Library and Bill Schurk Sound Archives.
South Dakota
Massachusetts
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.
New Hampshire
Zines are not cataloged, but they do circulate.
New Jersey
By subscription. Star Trek fanzines and slash fiction. There is also an European outpost in Austria.
New York
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
Pennsylvania
Zines and artist's books
Pennsylvania authors
Vermont
The library for the Center for Cartoon Studies. Also has graphic novels, cartoon collections, and related ephemera.
District of Columbia
Georgia
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
Kentucky
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.).
Louisiana
"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.
Maryland
Fanzines and Amateur Press Association mailings
D.C. Punk and Indie Fanzine Collection
North Carolina
Includes the Sarah Dyer collection
Texas
Austin Public Library, Central Library, Austin
"reading room and gathering place for zine enthusiasts"
Austin Zine Library, Austin,
In the Rhizome Collective's Center for Community Organizing
Crustacean Zine Library, Austin
San Anto Zine Library, San Antonio
Sherwood Forest Zine Library & Book Share, Austin
Texas A & M University, College Station
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.
Virginia
Flying Brick Library, Richmond, VA
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Wingnut Anarrchist Collective, Richmond, VA
California
Altadena Libraries, Altadena
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.
Anaheim Public Library, Anaheim
Anno Domini Zine Library, San Jose
Focus is on creative and artistic zines.
Asian American Zine Archive, University of California, Davis
c/o Darrell Y. Hamamoto, Asian American Studies Program
530-752-5600, by appointment only
Beautiful/Decay, Culver City
Art and comix zines
Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco
Chain House Zine Library, LA
A traveling Zine Library/Press
Che Cafe Zine Library, La Jolla
The Che is most interested in zines addressing political and social issues, especially looking for DIY how-to guides.
GLBT Historical Society, San Francisco
Includes zines reviewed by Larry-bob Roberts for Holy Titclamps and Factsheet Five, as well as zines by other donors.
Long Haul Infoshop, Berkeley
Radical periodical collection spanning the past few decades.
Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles (multiple branch locations)
Oakland Public Library, Oakland
Orange County Zine Library & Reading Room, Irvine
Rock! Paper! Scissors! Zine Library, Oakland
San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco
The collection spans the twentieth century, with a special emphasis on the San Francisco experience.
UCLA, Los Angeles
Darby Romeo, Heavy Metal, LA Punk, and Philippines collections
University of California, Riverside, Riverside
Science fiction fanzines
West Coast Zine Collection, San Diego State University, San Diego
Idaho
Special Collections and Archives at Boise State
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.
Montana
University of Montana-Missoula, Missoula
Mansfield Library, attn: Special Collections Librarian or jordan.goffin@umontana.edu
Slumgullion Independent Publishing Co-op, Missoula, MT
Local and kid friendly zines, and others.
New Mexico
Albuquerque Zine Library, Albuquerque
"an archive, a resource and an incubator for DIY publishing"
Teen Zone, Farmington Public Library, Farmington
Oregon
Bitch Media, Portland, OR
Black Rose at the Red and Black Cafe, Portland, OR
Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC), Portland, OR
Multnomah County Public Library, Portland, OR
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Reed College, Portland, OR
Utah
Salt Lake City Public Library, Main Library, Level 2, Salt Lake City
Special Collections and Archives at Boise State, Boise
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.
Washington
Kitsap Regional Library: Port Orchard Branch, 87 Sidney Ave., Port Orchard
Shannon Peterson, 360-876-2224
Local, teen, comics, northwest zines
Olympia Zine Library, Olympia
Punk Zine Archive, Mill Creek
PDFs of out of print issues of punk zines including Flipside, HeartattaCk, Maximumrocknroll, and Suburban Voice.
Seattle Public Library, Seattle
In the Teen Center at the downtown library: contact teencenter@spl.org
University Branch: contact Kristy Gale
Timberland Regional Library, Olympia and Lacey branches
Find zines in the catalog by searching for "zine."
Zine Archive & Publishing Project, Seattle, WA
Austin Fanzine Project, Austin, TX
Internet Archive, San Francisco, CA
Papercut Zine Library Virtual Zine Library, Cambridge, MA
Queer Zine Archive Project, Milwaukee, WI
Queer zines available in PDF for download.
Send Back My Stamps!: METAL FANZINE ARCHIVE
Death/thrash/grind/black metal fanzine scans from yesteryear
Sherwood Forest Virtual Zine Library, Austin, TX
Small Science
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.
Collection of Defunct Zine Libraries
social justice themed