Zine Libraries

U.S. Libraries with Zine Collections by State:

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Zine Libraries Countries Outside the U.S.:

Australia |Belgium | Canada | France | Germany | Greece | Indonesia | Ireland | Japan | The Netherlands | New Zealand | Philippines |UK

Online Zine Libraries

 

ARIZONA

The Catalyst Infoshop, Prescott

Dry River Zine Library, Tucson

 

CALIFORNIA

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

Bako Zines Library, Bakersfield

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.

City Heights Free Skool, San Diego

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.

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

 

COLORADO

Colorado College, Colorado Springs
Southwest zines

Denver Zine Library, Denver

 

CONNECTICUT

Elm City Infoshop (inside Neverending Books)

 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Provisions Library: Resource Center for Activism & Arts, Washington, DC

 

FLORIDA

New College of Florida, Sarasota

University of Central Florida, Orlando

Jacksonville Public Library, Jacksonville
"We hope to focus on regionally based zines, but our scope will be broad, including publications devoted to arts, culture, comics, politics, and advocacy."

Civic Media Center, Gainesville

Firefly Lending Library, Miami

 

GEORGIA

Atlanta Zine Library
Contact Amanda to donate zines.

Athens-Clarke County Library zine collection
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 at berdmann@athenslibrary.org

Oconee County Library, Watkinsville
Teen collection

 

ILLINOIS

DePaul University Zine Collection, Chicago
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.

Knox College Zine/Art Club, Henry Seymour Library, Galesburg
Contact Carmen Ribaudo or reference@knox.edu

Ela Area Public Library, Lake Zurich

Read/Write Library Chicago, IL
Anything self-published in Chicago

Small Science Zine Library, Chicago, IL
Science zines to download.

Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, Urbana, IL

 

IOWA

University of Iowa, Iowa City
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.

Sweet Bee Infoshop, Des Moines, IA

 

KENTUCKY

University of Kentucky Zine Archive, Lexington
c/o Deirdre Scaggs, King Library, ukzinelibrary@gmail.com
The collection focuses on zines produced in or discussing the Southern United States and/or environmental issues (bikes, veganism, sustainable communities, etc.).

The Brick House, Louisville, KY

 

LOUISIANA

Amistad Research Center, Tulane University, New Orleans
"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"

Hidden Spaces Zine Collection, sift, New Orleans
Pop-Up Zine Library events

Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, Tulane University, New Orleans
Zines by southern women. Zine reviews blog.

 

MAINE

Deerest Isle Traveling Zine Library!, Deer Isle

Wrong Brain, Kittery
 

 

MARYLAND

Baltimore County Public Library, Baltimore, MD
Fanzines and Amateur Press Association mailings

Charm City Art Space, Baltimore, MD
About half personal zines, and half punk zines HeartattaCk, Maximumrocknroll.

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

University of Maryland, College Park
D.C. Punk and Indie Fanzine Collection
 

MASSACHUSETTS

Flywheel, Easthampton

Hampshire College, Amherst

Lesley University, Cambridge

Papercut Zine Library, Somerville

Simmons College, Boston

Smith College, Northampton
Girls' zines, many from Tristan Taormino's collection.

 

MICHIGAN

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Political, especially anarchist zines.

Michigan State, East Lansing
Comics are their specialty.

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

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

 

MINNESOTA

Minnesota Community and Technical College, Minneapolis

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

Bat Annex Free School Library, Minneapolis, MN.
Their catalog is online at LibraryThing.

 

MISSOURI

Bread and Roses Library, St. Louis, MO

Joseph Heathcott Collection of Counterculture Publications, Saint Louis University Libraries Special Collections, St. Louis, MO
"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."

Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City

Paper Airplane Zine Library, Springfield, MO

Samizdat Zine Library, St. Louis, MO

 

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.

 

NEBRASKA

Omaha Zine Library, Omaha, NE
 

NEVADA

Las Vegas Zine Library, Las Vegas, NV
 

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Plymouth Regional High School, Plymouth
Zines are not cataloged, but they do circulate.

 

NEW JERSEY

K/S Zine Library, one in New Jersey, one in Scotland
By subscription. Star Trek fanzines and slash fiction.

 

NEW MEXICO

Albuquerque Zine Library, Albuquerque
"an archive, a resource and an incubator for DIY publishing"

Teen Zone, Farmington Public Library, Farmington

 

NEW YORK

Barnard College, New York
Cis- and transgender women's personal and political zines. Open stacks and archives collections.

Brooklyn College, Brooklyn
Primary focus is Brooklyn zines.

Durland Alternatives Library, Cornell University, Ithaca

Fales Library & Special Collections, NYU, New York
Zines and other materials related to the riot grrrl movement.

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
Art zines

University at Buffalo, Buffalo
Zines from around Western New York circa early to mid 1990s

Wells College Zine Library, Aurora

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

New York State Library, Albany
They have the Factsheet Five collection.

ABC No Rio Zine Library, New York, NY

DitKO!, The Silent Barn, Ridgewood, NY

Silent City Distro, Ithaca, NY

Sugar City, Buffalo, NY

SUNY New Paltz Zine Library, New Paltz, NY

TAC Zine Library, Oswego, NY

Unofficial SUNY New Paltz Traveling Zine Library, New Paltz, NY

 

NORTH CAROLINA

Duke University, Durham
Includes the Sarah Dyer collection

Internationalist Books and Community Center, Chapel Hill

 

OHIO

Browne Popular Culture Library , Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green

Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland

Cuyahoga County Public Library, Independence
Teen collection at Independence branch.

 

OREGON

Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

Multnomah County Public Library, Portland, OR

Bitch Media, Portland, OR

Black Rose at the Red and Black Cafe, Portland, OR

Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC), Portland, OR

 

PENNSYLVANIA

Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh

Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
Zines and artist's books.

Roboto Project Zine Library, Pittsburgh

The Soapbox: Philadelphia's Independent Publishing Center, Philadelphia, PA

 

SOUTH DAKOTA

Vermillion Public Library, Vermillion

 

TENNESSEE

Chattanooga Public Library, Chattanooga

Linebaugh Public Library, Murfreesboro

Watkins College of Art & Design, Nashville

 

TEXAS

Austin Public Library, Faulk 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.

 

UTAH

Salt Lake City Public Library, Main Library, Level 2, Salt Lake City

 

VERMONT

Marlboro College, Marlboro

The Root Radical Lending Library, Brattleboro
social justice-themed

Schulz Library, White River Junction, VT
The library for the Center for Cartoon Studies. Also has graphic novels, cartoon collections, and related ephemera.

 

VIRGINIA

Flying Brick Library, Richmond, VA

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Wingnut Anarrchist Collective, Richmond, VA

 

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 and also at the University Branch
Contact for University Branch: Josie Watanabe

Timberland Regional Library, Olympia and Yelm
Search for them in the catalog using keyword <zine>

Zine Archive & Publishing Project, Seattle, WA

 

WISCONSIN

Beloit College, Beloit, WI

Library Workers Zine Collection, SLIS Laboratory Library, University of Wisconsin – Madison

 

AUSTRALIA

National Libary of Australia, Canberra, ACT

Port Phillip Library Service, Port Phillip, Victoria

State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria

Copy & Destroy Zine Library Brisbane

Octapod, Newcastle NSW
 

BELGIUM

FEL Bibliotheek, Ghent
 

CANADA

Anchor Archive Zine Library, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Annapolis Valley Zine Library, Greenwich, Nova Scotia

Bibliograph, Montréal, Québec
Bilingual (Français/English)

Calgary Zine Library, Zine Tree Collective, Calgary, Alberta

Arrow Archive, Hamilton, Ontario

Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, Ontario

Pride Library, London, Ontario
part of the Queer Graphica Collection at the University of Western Ontario

Sheridan College Library, Oakville, Ontario

Toronto Zine Library, Toronto, Ontario

Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, British Columbia

XPACE, Toronto, Ontario

 

FRANCE

Fanzinothèque, Poitiers, France

 

GERMANY

Archiv der Jugendkulturen e.V. Berlin, Germany

FemArchiv in the Frauenmuseum, Marburg, Germany
 

GREECE

The Athens Zine Bibliotheque, Athens, Greece
 

INDONESIA

C20 Library & Collective Surabaya, Indonesia
 

IRELAND

The Forgotten Zine Archive, Dublin, Ireland
Irish & international independent publications
 

JAPAN

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

Itami City Library, Itami-shi, Hyogo, Japan

Mount Zine Student Library, Tokyo

Nagi Shokudo, Shibuya, Japan
Zine library in a vegan restaurant. Japanese/English collection. From VLU blog.
 

THE NETHERLANDS

Motel Spatie, Arnheim
more than 1000 international zines collected over a period of 25 years

Zsa Zsa Zine Library, Amsterdam
feminist, queer and poc zines and comics
 

NEW ZEALAND

Auckland Libraries, Auckland

Feminist Zine Library,Victoria University, Wellington

Wellington City Libraries, Wellington

 

PHILIPPINES

Candies and Whims

Studio Soup Distro and Library, Manila

 

UK

56a Zine Library, London, England
political, feminist, queer, activist zines as well as perzines and punk zines

British Library, London, England
counterculture zines, women’s zines, riot grrrl zines,music zines, football zines, alternative comics

Cowley Club, Brighton, England
lending library with materials relating to libertarian, ecological, and feminist books, pamphlets, and zines

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

London College of Communication, London, England
art zines as well as music/personal/political zines, covering art, music, photography, politics and personal stories

Manchester LGBT Zine Library, Manchester, England
Zines housed in the Joyce Layland LGBT Centre

Mobile Menstrual Zine Library, Sheffield, England
Reference only.

Salford Zine Library, Manchester, England

Stuart Hall Library, London, England
cultural diversity,race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, as well as personal/political/arts based zines

University of Portsmouth/Zineopolis, Portsmouth, Hampshire
Zineopolis! Supports an arts, design & media illustration course

The Women's Library, London, England

 

Online Zine Libraries

Austin Fanzine Project, Austin, TX

Internet Archive, San Francisco, CA

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

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.

Zinelibrary.info
An online library which has hundreds of radical zines ready to print.