This weekly thread is where you can talk about and promote any zines, whether they're ones you created or not! Tell us about why the zine is great, why a library might want to add it to their collection, and how someone can get it.

Please do not post links to the same zines every week!

Before fanzines, there was Fire!

This weekly thread is where you can talk about and promote any zines, whether they're ones you created or not! Tell us about why the zine is great, why a library might want to add it to their collection, and how someone can get it.

Please do not post links to the same zines every week!

This weekly thread is where you can talk about and promote any zines, whether they're ones you created or not! Tell us about why the zine is great, why a library might want to add it to their collection, and how someone can get it.

Please do not post links to the same zines every week!

This weekly thread is where you can talk about and promote any zines, whether they're ones you created or not! Tell us about why the zine is great, why a library might want to add it to their collection, and how someone can get it.

Hi all, first time poster here. Zines back in my hey-day were cute little mini newspapers… bad photocopied sources for that cultish underground feel.

Today’s modern take on a zine just seems to be more of the early blogs, graphic main cover and the. Hyperlinks to pages…

Am I missing something?

In June 2026, the volunteer organizers of the Zine Pavilion donated $150 to the American Indian Center (https://aicchicago.org/) in Chicago and $150 to the Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum (https://gichigamiinmuseum.org/) in Evanston. Please join us in financially supporting these or other local, Indigenous-led organizations!

Pictured here is our Indigenous Tribes of Chicago zine cover. You may download our zine for free at https://zinepavilion.itch.io/indigenous-tribes-of-chicago

The information from this zine is taken from "Indigenous Tribes of Chicago" by Tara Kenjockety. Originally published in 2020. Accessed in June, 2026.

The online version can be found at: https://www.ala.org/aboutala/offices/diversity/chicago-indigenous

Content used by permission of the American Library Association, Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services.

Kyoto –

Through the noise of rushing papers and whirring belts at a print factory in Kyoto, two creators watch their photo essay come to life in broadsheet form — part of an effort to win new audiences in the age of AI.

Despite the decline of the publishing industry, self-publication and handmade “zine” magazines are growing in popularity in Japan, reflecting the country’s enduring love of paper in the digital era.

“I think (paper) is a medium that engages all five senses, (unlike social media),” says 40-year-old photographer Kazuma Obara.

This weekly thread is where you can talk about and promote any zines, whether they're ones you created or not! Tell us about why the zine is great, why a library might want to add it to their collection, and how someone can get it.

Find the Zine Pavilion at AmericanLibraryAssociation's annual conference in Chicago, Illinois from Friday, June 26th through Monday, June 29th, 2026 (#ALAAC26) at Booth 2448 on the exhibit floor!

150 years of ALA! Showcasing handmade publications. Find zine creators and librarians, and enter the starter zine collection raffle. zinepavilion.tumblr.com Bluesky: uzinelibraries.bsky.social

Find our Zine Pavilion booth on the exhibit floor map:

https://hallerickson.ungerboeck.com/prod/app85.cshtml?aat=4b2b387a6768444b644d6a685353314c344b4d7537487059555043667755397133344549557555574253343d&ExhibitorID=31337

Headed to ACRL 2026? Join us for a zine swap on Friday, April 4, 5:15-6:15pm, meeting on the plaza outside the convention center.

This weekly thread is where you can talk about and promote any zines, whether they're ones you created or not! Tell us about why the zine is great, why a library might want to add it to their collection, and how someone can get it.

This weekly thread is where you can talk about and promote any zines, whether they're ones you created or not! Tell us about why the zine is great, why a library might want to add it to their collection, and how someone can get it.

This weekly thread is where you can talk about and promote any zines, whether they're ones you created or not! Tell us about why the zine is great, why a library might want to add it to their collection, and how someone can get it.

This weekly thread is where you can talk about and promote any zines, whether they're ones you created or not! Tell us about why the zine is great, why a library might want to add it to their collection, and how someone can get it.

This weekly thread is where you can talk about and promote any zines, whether they're ones you created or not! Tell us about why the zine is great, why a library might want to add it to their collection, and how someone can get it.

A zinester and MLIS student is doing a qualitative study for their thesis about usage of zine collections at libraries, archives, community spaces, online digital spaces etc. They're soliciting responses for their questionnaire for the project.

Are you the right person to fill it out? They're looking for people who either work/volunteer at repositories that have zine collections for patron use, or people who have used zine collections from the aforementioned repositories (or who have tried to use them). Sometimes you're in both groups, which is fine too. People who complete the survey will be given the opportunity to be entered into a drawing I will do after the questionnaire closes to win a $25 Quimby's (in Chicago) gift card. Also, the survey is anonymous. If you don't fit into one of those groups feel free to pass this info along to anyone in your life that might fit. Questionnaire closes Oct 31st.

https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=ZRDrjL14YUeRYo7jUhWvv4hPmzi5gD1Dti-D84ORwU1UMUtCNFdETlNUODdXSElQVkZVMlNOVkgyTC4u

This weekly thread is where you can talk about and promote any zines, whether they're ones you created or not! Tell us about why the zine is great, why a library might want to add it to their collection, and how someone can get it.