Confessions of an Accidental Archivist and Amateur Cataloger: What Happens When a

Reference Librarian Runs a Special Collection

Midwest Archives Conference Organizing Anarchy

April 23, 2010Jenna Freedman, Zine Librarian, Barnard College

the materials

• Active creators/records• Secondary sources• Most authors young, recent• Copyright/permissions• Authored by everygrrrl

Subject to Change by Wendy

acquisitions

• Purchases• Gifts—but not organized by

donor, even intellectually• What's a donor agreement? • Trades• Payment • Almost no subscriptions

I Dreamed I Was Assertive by Celia Perez

processing & cataloging

• Circulating zines stamped, tattle taped, and barcoded

• Item level cataloging with LCSH for every zine

• I read and catalog every zine in the collection

• Abstracting, cataloging, and processing help from student workers and LIS interns

Muffin Bones by Emily K. Larned

shelving/preservation

• Cutter classification scheme, not by donor

• Stacks zines browsable• Archives zines in acid free

pamphlet files, climate controlled archive, paged from reference

• No special reading room, photography, pens, food allowed The Future Generation by China Martens

links/contactThis presentation: http://jenna.openflows.com/talks/2010/mac

Me: zines@barnard.edu

Barnard Library Zine Collection http://barnard.edu/library/zines Comparison of Barnard Zine Collection and Fales Riot Grrrl Collection

http://barnardzines.livejournal.com/70907.htmlLibrary Journal Zine Reviews

http://www.libraryjournal.com/community/Magazine/Zine/47384.html Why We're Not Digitizing Zines, by Kelly Wooten, Duke University

http://library.duke.edu/blogs/digital-collections/2009/09/21/why-were-not-digitizing-zines

Your Zine Tool Kit: a DIY Collection http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6341863.html

Zine Libraries http://barnard.edu/library/zines/zinelibraries.htm Zine Libraries Interest Group http://zinelibraries.info, includes downloadable Zine

Librarian Zine http://zinelibraries.info/2009/03/03/zine-librarian-zine-3 Zinelibrarians list http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zinelibrarians