Alt Wire is a morning digest of links and information collected and explained by a different guest blogger every weekday. Today’s guest is zine librarian Alycia Sellie.We asked her for five links and here’s what she came up with.
Zine World: Zine World is the most well-known print source for reviews and information about zines, and it’s web presence is formidable as well with a comprehensive list of links for everything from postal rates, upcoming events and zine news.
Queer Zine Archive Project: QZAP is a free digital zine archive that strives to “preserve queer zines and make them available to other queers, researchers, historians, punks, and anyone else who has an interest DIY publishing and underground queer communities.” This site is beautifully designed, perpetually growing with new titles, extremely inspiring, and an amazing historical record.
Zine Wiki: The amazing thing about Zine Wiki is that the phlethora of information about zines already there is just a start; the fantastic thing is that anyone can add and edit (meta)data about their zine, or add themselves to the extensive list of zinesters!
We Make Zines Ning: For more meta and social networking (when your stapling arm gets too tired), the We Make Zines Ning is a place (that isn’t those other sites that we all know too well) to promote your zine, find out about zine events and even friend your local zine librarian.
Nobody Cares about your Stupid Zine Podcast: Here’s a new zine project for your ears, ipods and RSS readers: Alex Wrekk (of Stolen Sharpie Revolution) and Mark Parker (Independent Publishing Resource Center librarian and creator of zinethug.com) team together to interview zinesters far and wide, and I am looking forward to the next installment!
Bio: Alycia Sellie is an academic art librarian living in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn. After participating in the first ever Zine Librarians (un)Conference in Seattle, Washington, she is busy planning the NYC Zine Fest to be held at the Brooklyn Lyceum in June 2009, and can be reached at http://alycia.brokenja.ws/.
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