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Zine Libraries

Argentina

La Libre Biblio

Australia

Copy & Destroy Zine Library Brisbane

National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT

Octapod, Newcastle NSW

Port Phillip Library Service, Port Phillip, Victoria

State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria

The Zine Institute, Brisbane

Belgium

't Assez Infotheek

FEL Bibliotheek, Ghent

felfeminisme@gmail.com

De Kunstenbibliotheek, Gent

Petite Fanzinothèque Belge, Brussels?

The Shelf Library, Ghent

Brazil

Fanzineteca Fabiana Menassi, Ilha Comprida, SP

https://facebook.com/fanzinetecafabimenassi/

Fanzinoteca IFF, Macaé/RJ

Fanzinoteca Mutação, Rio Grande, RS

Fanzinoteka “Thina Curtis” – Gibiteka Max Zendron, Barueri / SP

Gibiteca / Fanzinoteca Henfil, João Pessoa / PB

Marca de Fantasia, Parceiros

Zineteca Glauco Villas Boas, Serrana, SP

Canada

Anchor Archive Zine Library, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Arrow Archive, Hamilton, Ontario

Bibliograph, Montréal, Québec

Bilingual (Français/English)

Calgary Zine Library, Zine Tree Collective, Calgary, Alberta

https://www.facebook.com/Calgary-Zine-Library-182123315208461/

Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, Ontario

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!

Pride Library, London, Ontario

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

Sheridan College Library, Oakville, Ontario

Soviet Samizdat Periodicals, University of Toronto, Ontario

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

Toronto Zine Library, Toronto, Ontario

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. 

Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, British Columbia

XPACE, Toronto, Ontario

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.

Chile

Biblioteca de Santiago, Santiago

Fanzinoteca Espigadoras, Santiago

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

France

Fanzinarium, Paris, France

Fanzinothèque, Poitiers, France

Zines of the Zone

photo-related

Germany

Archiv der Jugendkulturen e.V. Berlin, Germany

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

FemArchiv in the Frauenmuseum, Marburg, Germany

Munich Zine Library, Munich

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. 

Greece

The Athens Zine Bibliotheque, Athens, Greece

AZINES, Nicosia, Cyprus

Hong Kong

Asia Art Archive, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong

Queer Reads Library

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?”

Zine Coop, Hong Kong

We are currently collecting zines made by Hong Kong creators.

Indonesia

C20 Library & Collective Surabaya, Indonesia

Independent library & coworking community — for emancipatory, sustainable future 

POJOK PUSTAKA PTK, Pontianak-Kalimantan Barat

Ireland

The Forgotten Zine Archive, Dublin, Ireland

Irish & international independent publications

Italy

Fanzinoteca d'Italia, Forlì FC

The Fanzinoteca La Pipette Noir, Milan

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

Japan

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.

Netherlands

Zsa Zsa Zine Library, Amsterdam

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

New Zealand

Auckland Libraries, Auckland

CHCH/Ōtautahi Zine Library, Christchurch

Christchurch City Library

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.

Wellington City Libraries, Wellington

Philippines

Candies and Whims

Studio Soup Zine Library, Quezon City

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. 

Portugal

Fanzineteca Condomínio Criativo, Coimbra

Fanzineteca de Alpiarça, Queirós Vaz Guedes, Pte. da Barca

Fanzineteca Geraldes Lino, Veneira

Spain

Fanzineologia Fanzinoteca, Valencia

La fanzinoteca, Barcelona

Libreria Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid

Comics and fanzines

United Kingdom

56a Zine Library, London, England

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

BALTIC+, Gateshead

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. 

British Library, London, England

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

Canny Little Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, England

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

Cowley Club, Brighton, England

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

Derbyshire Zine Library

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

Edinburgh Zine Library, Edinburgh, Scotland

Twitter @edzinelibrary

Glasgow School of Art Zine Library, Glasgow, Scotland

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

Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, England

Mobile Menstrual Zine Library, Sheffield, England

Reference Only 

Norwich Millennium Zine Library

Poetry Library, London, England

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

Salford Zine Library, Manchester, England

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

Skye Zine Library, Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland

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

Stuart Hall Library, London, England

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

Tate Library, London, England

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

University for the Creative Arts, Epsom, England

Art zine 

University of Liverpool Library special collections

Includes fanzines in their sci-fi collection

University of Portsmouth/Zineopolis, Portsmouth, Hampshire

 

Zineopolis! Supports an arts, design & media illustration course

University of Westminster, Architecture & The Built Environment Library, London…

Zines related to architecture and the built environment

Wellcome Library, London

Health/medical-themed zines

The Women's Library, London, England

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, mobile

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.

Taiwan

Boven Magazine Library, Taipei City

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.

US Midwest

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

Read/Write Library Chicago, IL

Anything self-published in Chicago

Small Science Zine Library, Chicago, IL

Science zines to download.

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, Urbana, IL

Also on facebook! 

Indiana

IUB LGBTQ+ Library, Bloomington

Type < zines > into the catalog.

Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington

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

Kansas

Johnson County Library, Shawnee, KS

Michigan

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.

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Political, especially anarchist zines.

Ypsilanti District Library

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

Minnesota

Aapli Library, Minneapolis

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

Bat Annex Free School Library, Minneapolis, MN.

Their catalog is online at LibraryThing.

Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN

Hennepin County Library Zine Collection, Minneapolis

Minneapolis Community & Technical College

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.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

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

Missouri

Bread and Roses Library, St. Louis, MO

Joseph Heathcott Collection of Counterculture Publications, Saint Louis Univers…

"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

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.

 

Paper Airplane Zine Library, Springfield, MO

Samizdat Zine Library, St. Louis, MO

St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, MO

search the subject field for zines

University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO

Nebraska

Omaha Public Library Zine Collection, Omaha

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

Ohio

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

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

Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland

Ohio State University Rare Books & Manuscript Library, Columbus

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.

Wisconsin

Beloit College, Beloit, WI

Library Workers Zine Collection, SLIS Laboratory Library, University of Wiscons…

US Northeast

Massachusetts

Flywheel, Easthampton

Hampshire College, Amherst

Lesley University, Cambridge

Marie Equi Zine Library, Wampanoag (New Bedford)

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

Papercut Zine Library, Cambridge

Simmons College, Boston

SMFA Library Student Publications & Zine Collection, Waltham

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. 

Smith College, Northampton

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

Watertown Free Public Library

Williams College, Williamstown

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 at Schlesinger Library, Cambridge

Maine

College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor

Deerest Isle Traveling Zine Library!, Deer Isle

New Hampshire

Plymouth Regional High School, Plymouth

Zines are not cataloged, but they do circulate.

Wrong Brain, Dover, NH

New Jersey

K/S Zine Library

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

Trenton Zine Library

New York

ABC No Rio Zine Library, New York, NY

Barnard Zine Library, NYC

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.

Booklet Library, New York

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

Brooklyn College, Brooklyn

Primary focus is Brooklyn zines.

Center for Book Arts, New York, NY

DitKO!, the Silent Barn, Bushwick (Brooklyn), NY

Durland Alternatives Library, Cornell University, Ithaca

Fales Library & Special Collections, NYU, New York

Zines and other materials related to the riot grrrl movement.

Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) Zine Library, Manhattan

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.

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn

Art zines

Silent City Distro, Ithaca, NY

Sugar City, Buffalo, NY

SUNY New Paltz Zine Library, New Paltz, NY

TAC Zine Library, Owego, NY

University at Buffalo, Buffalo

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

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

Vassar Zine Library, Poughkeepsie, NY

Wells College Zine Library, Aurora

Pennsylvania

Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh

East Falls Zine Reading Room, Philadelphia

Everhart Museum, Scranton

Franklin and Marshall Zine Library, Lancaster

Little Berlin, Philadelphia

Zines and artist's books

Roboto Project Zine Library, Pittsburgh

The Soapbox: Philadelphia's Independent Publishing Center, Philadelphia

State Library of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg

Pennsylvania authors

Rhode Island

The Fleet Library at RISD Zine Collection

Sarah Doyle Women's Center Library at Brown University, Providence, RI

Vermont

Marlboro College, Marlboro

Schulz Library, White River Junction, VT

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

US South

District of Columbia

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

Florida

Civic Media Center, Gainesville

Jacksonville Public Library, Jacksonville

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

Love Your Rebellion, Ft. Myers

University of Central Florida, Orlando

University of Miami, Miami

Georgia

Atlanta Zine Library

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 

Kentucky

Berea College, Hutchins Library, Berea, KY

University of Kentucky Zine Archive, Lexington

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

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"

Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, Tulane University, New Orleans

Zines by southern women. Zine reviews blog.

Maryland

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Fanzines and Amateur Press Association mailings

University of Maryland, College Park

D.C. Punk and Indie Fanzine Collection

North Carolina

Duke University, Durham

Includes the Sarah Dyer collection

Internationalist Books and Community Center, Chapel Hill

Tennessee

Chattanooga Public Library, Chattanooga

Linebaugh Public Library, Murfreesboro

Watkins College of Art & Design, Nashville

Texas

Austin Public Library, Central Library, Austin

"reading room and gathering place for zine enthusiasts"

Cushing Memorial Library & Archives at Texas A&M University Libraries, College …

Crustacean Zine Library, Austin

Northwest Vista College Library, San Antonio

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

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

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Wingnut Anarrchist Collective, Richmond, VA

US Southwest

Arizona

Arizona State University Zine Library, Tempe

Jewish Zine Archive, Tucson

Wasted Ink Zine Distro, Phoenix

New Mexico

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

Teen Zone, Farmington Public Library, Farmington

US West

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

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, Culver City

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. 

Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco

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.

Leather Archives & Museum

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

Long Haul Infoshop, Berkeley

Radical periodical collection spanning the past few decades.

Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles (multiple branch locations)

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

Rio Hondo College Library, Whittier

Rock! Paper! Scissors! Zine Library, Oakland

San Diego Central Library @ Joan Λ Irwin Jacobs Common, San Diego

their zine tumblr

San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco

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

Teeny Tiny Zine Library, SF Bay Area (mobile)

Tribal Family Resource Library, Smith River

UCSB Social Justice Zine Collection

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.

UCLA, Powell Library, Los Angeles

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

University of California, Riverside, Riverside

Science fiction fanzine collection, Kirk/Spock fan fiction

University of San Francisco, Gleeson Zine Library, San Francisco

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.

West Coast Zine Collection, San Diego State University, San Diego

Colorado

Colorado College, Colorado Springs

Southwest zines

Denver Zine Library, Denver

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.

Nevada

Las Vegas Zine Library, Las Vegas, NV

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

Oregon

Bitch Media, Portland, OR

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

Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC), Portland, OR

Multnomah County Public Library, Portland, OR

Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

Reed College, Portland, OR

The Valley Library at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

Utah

J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City

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

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

Collins Library Zine Collection, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma

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. 

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

Spark Central, Spokane

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.

Timberland Regional Library, Olympia and Lacey branches

Zine Archive & Publishing Project, Seattle, WA

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.

Digital Libraries

Austin Fanzine Project, Austin, TX

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.

Biblioteca de Fanzin/ES, Daniela Dias

contact danielaedias@gmail.com

Comic Book Plus, UK

The Comics Heroines Fan Club, UK

Comic books covers and some pdfs

The Corroseum, Stockholm, Sweden

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

https://efanzines.com

Science fiction fanzines (twitter @efanzines)

fanac.org, Orlando, FL

Florida Association for Nucleations and Conventions: 1930-present

Le Fanzinophile, France?

Festival Léeme, Peru

Internet Archive, San Francisco, CA

Marca de Fantasia, Brazil

Papercut Zine Library Virtual Zine Library, Cambridge, MA

The Poopsheet Foundation

"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 Archives

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.

Queer Indonesia Archive, Jakarta, Indonesia

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 Zine Archive Project, Milwaukee, WI

Queer zines available in PDF for download.

The Sandy Hereld Memorial Digitized Media Fanzine Collection, College Station, …

Send Back My Stamps!: METAL FANZINE ARCHIVE

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

Sherwood Forest Virtual Zine Library, Austin, TX

Collection of downloadable PDFs and links to online readable zines

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.

Women’s Studies, Feminist Zine Archive

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

Zineteca Digital Colaborativa, Brazil

Zine Web Archive

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.

Collection of Defunct Zine Libraries

The Root Radical Lending Library, Brattleboro

social justice themed 

Chain House Zine Library, LA

A traveling Zine Library/Press

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

Barnard Zine Library Fund

Financial contributions to the zine library support student staff, project staff, and technological improvements in the zine library.

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