Shared Zine Library Catalog: What do zine makers & readers want, if anything?

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For several years, a group of zine librarians from collections in public, collective, and academic spaces in the US and Canada have been working toward building an online catalog where readers and researchers could search all of our zine collections at once. We're excited about it, but it's a lot of work, so we need to know...do zine makers and zine readers even want such a catalog? (btw worldcat.org is an example of this type of catalog, but not specifically for zines and just for capital L Libraries)

What's your involvement in zines?

Check any/all that apply

I make zines

I used to make zines

I write about zines and zine makers, as a journalist or scholar

I read zines

I am a zine librarian

Other:

How do you currently find out where you can get/read a zine you already know about?

Internet search

Search individual library catalogs

Search individual zine distros

Zine fest or other zine events

Etsy search

Ask friends

Other:

If a shared library catalog existed, how do you imagine you'd use it?

Check as many boxes as you like and tell us more in the Other box.

Finding out where I can get a zine I already know about.

Finding zines I didn't already know about (by doing author, keyword, subject, etc. searching)

Finding out which libraries have my zine

Finding out which libraries have my someone else's zine (my nemesis, my crush, my BFF)

Getting recommendations, like on GoodReads

Identifying libraries to send my zine(s) to

Identifying a library to donate my zine collection to

Sharing reviews, like on GoodReads

Other:

How do you currently find zines by a certain author or on a certain topic?

Internet search

Go to individual library catalogs

Go to individual zine distros

Ask friends

Etsy search

Zine fests or other zine events

Other:

How do you currently find out which zine libraries have your zine (or that of your BFF, crush or nemesis)?

Internet search

Go to individual library catalogs

Didn't occur to me to look

Ask friends

Other:

How do you currently figure out which zine libraries to offer your zines or zine collection to (for donation or sale)?

Internet search

Zine libraries list (e.g., Barnard's)

Ask a friend

Ask on social media

Didn't occur to me to research this, just go with zine libraries I already know about

Other:

Are you interested in zines for

Pleasure

Research

Neither

Both

Other:

Do you have #feelings about your zine being listed in a library catalog easily found on the internet?

Love it!

Hate it!

Whatever.

But...how will you describe my zine?

Can I request changes to my catalog record?

I use my full name in my zine but wouldn't want it in an online record

Other:

Are there any other feelings this discussion of a shared zine library catalog brings up?

Please tell us about your feelings!

Having your zine title and your name together on the open web

How your zine is described in the catalog

Stalkers finding your stuff

Option 4

Other:

Anything else you want to say?

So, now that you've answered our questions and thought about a shared zine library catalog, how into it are you?

Fuck that.

WANT!

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Do you/have you made zines?

Again--totally optional! Check all that apply.

I have made a zine in the last two years

I have made zines but not in more than two years.

I have made zines but not in more than ten years.

I'm going to make my first zine any minute now, really!

Other:

Totally optional (like all the questions, actually), want to tell us who you are and if we can follow up with you about stuff?

Please give your name, email address, website, zine name, whatever you are willing to share.

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