Zines in Idaho libraries?
Does your library have a zine collection or host workshops on zines? Zine is short for magazines and the name's brevity also implies some content. Zines are shorter than magazines, and more personal.
Making zines require craft supplies, handwritten or typewriter typed entries, personal stories, and share lots of information, but also require the use of a photocopier or sometimes even screenprint or letterpress! The IPRC in Portland has tons of workshops and ideas about this: http://www.iprc.org/
Because they are not online they still can allow some anonymity for teens wishing to express themselves and share ideas! It's easier, sometimes, to find like minded individuals in zine than online.
The zine library at Salt Lake City is awesome, but it's also the oldest and largest zine library in the country! Check it out: http://altpress.slcpl.org/
What are your favorite places to buy or order or read zines? I have mine, but I want to hear yours first!
- Posted by: amy.vecchione
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Good info
Thanks for the info Amy. Our library has applied for a Wal-Mart Mini-grant to try a new model of Teen Summer Reading. Written into the grant is a Zine workshop, and participants will all contribute a page or two. Two of my daughters went to Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls in Portland several years ago, where they were first exposed to zines and zine making. My library's Youth Advisory Committee created one zine a few years ago, which fizzled out fast (though the content was amazing) because only a few in the group were into it. Committee voting led them to other projects.
http://www.undergroundpress.org/zine-resources/ has links for online zine making info and resources.
Rock n roll camp for girls!
That's awesome about sending your kids to that camp! All of those teachers are top notch and believe in the girls!
Have any of your teens made their own zines? What do they think about photocopying?
Zines
No individual teen zine makers in my family or my library. That may change -- We didn't win a Wal-Mart grant for teen summer reading, So I'm putting together a teen steering committee for teen summer reading. I'll present them with lots of creative possibilities for our summer program, including zines, but ultimately, the teens will choose what we do.
Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls was awesome for my daughters. They both want to go back and work at the camp when they get un-busy enough to do it.
Do you guys have a zine
Do you guys have a zine collection at JPL?
Xeenage - Garden City Library Zine
Hi Amy!
Over here at GCPL, Melody E. (now at Collister) started a Zine for teens called "Xeenage". In the final issue I did with the teens we focused on experimental writing. I've uploaded a pdf sample of some of the content of the Zine (this is not a complete issue). We off the zine in our teen section, and there are issues going back a few years. This last issue was done by a group that was older and ready to move on. We had aspired to digitize the issue, but ended up doing a lot of cut-and-paste layout stuff with the actual writings that we did during our meetings so digitizing the whole issue would have involved scanning, etc, and we didn't have the level of commitment to see it through. But the in-house issue is awesome. The teens were very proud of their work - here is the sample: http://gardencity.lili.org/xeenage
Thanks for the links -- we hope to revive our zine in the near future and continue the tradition that Melody started here!