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Allison, Virginia. "ZMedia Librarian: From Theory to Practice" blog. Accessed 25 Apr. 2007.

Aulik, Denise. "Zines, Literacy, and the Adolescent," Knowledge Quest on the Web. 35 (Sep/Oct. 2006).

Barack, Lauren. "Librarians Tell All in Zines," School Library Journal. 1 April 2006: 27.

Bartel, Julie. From A to Zine: Building a Winning Zine Collection in Your Library. Chicago: ALA Editions, 2004.

Berman, Sanford. "Zine Cataloging" talk delivered at the Madison Zine Fest. 16 Oct 2005.

Darlington, Tenaya. "Zinester Paradise: Alycia Sellie Launches Madison Zine Fest Next Week," Isthmus (Madison, WI), 1 Oct. 2004.

Cohen, Billie. "College Cred: Barnard's Library Stresses the Importance of DIY Zines," Time Out New York. 6-12 Apr. 2006: 12.

Dodge, Chris. "Collecting the Wretched Refuse: Lifting a Lamp to Zines, Military Newspapers, and Wisconsinalia," Library Trends 56.3 (2008): 667 (11 pages).

Dodge, Chris. "The New Monastic Librarians," Utne. Jul./Aug. 2005: 78-80.

Duffy, Kim Hancey. "the basement tapes," Print. 59.5 (2005): 38 (3 pgs)

Fauchereau, Lise, "Graphzines et autres livres graphiques [Graphic-zines and other graphic art publications]," Nouvelles de l'Estampe 213, (Jul.-Nov. 2007): 20-25.

Freedman, Jenna, "How to Pick What Zine Library to Donate To?" Zine World 23 July 2006: 42.

Freedman, Jenna, Presentation. "Self-Publication with Punk Rock Ideals: Zines ≠ Vanity Press Publications," SHARP Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 13 Jul. 2007.

Freedman, Jenna, "Your Zine Tool Kit:A DIY Collection," Library Journal 131.11 (15 June 2006): 36-39.

Freedman, Jenna. "Zines Are Not Blogs: A Not Unbiased Analysis," Counterpoise 9.3 (2005): 10-?. An article on a similar theme from Red Hooded Sweatshirt #3 (1999) "Of & about Letters: Love-letters & Passed Notes & Everyday Declarations of Friendship" by Marissa Falco.

Gisonny, Karen and Jenna Freedman. "Zines in Libraries: How, What, and Why?" Collection Building 25.1 (2006): 26-30.

Hsu, Hua. "File under Other." Boston Globe 6 May 2007: E3.

Hubbard, Colleen. "DIY in the Stacks: a Study of Three Public Library Zine Collections,"Public Libraries, Nov./Dec. 2005: 351-354.

Koppel, Lily. "Zines in the Library Catalogue? Of Course." New York Times 11 April 2006: B2.

Means, Greig. Zine Librarian Zine http://www.microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/zines/336/.

Moore, Anne Elizabeth, "Unofficial Histories: Zine and Ephemeral Print Archivists." Punk Planet, #75, Sep.-Oct. 2006.

NPR Interview with Miriam DesHarnais of the Baltimore Public Library. Also Benn Ray of Atomic Books and Davida Gypsy Breier of Xerography Debt.

Schaefer, Andrew. "Cartoonists find fans at Cockeysville library." Baltimore Sun 12 April 2007: 4B.

Sellie, Alycia. " Zines From the Stacks: Self-Published Tracts From Lady Library Workers" Feminist Collections 27.2-3 (2006): 36-38.

Silarski, Kim. "Mainstream Picking up on 14pt That's Gaining Respect in the Culture: Zines Allow Individual, Intimate Expression," The Ann Arbor News, 5 Nov. 2006.

Stewart, Sean. Reviews of zines by library workers

University of Oregon exhibit, "Zines Make the Scene in Knight Library Exhibit."

West, Jessamyn. From Pixels to Picas column, "Life in the Trenches of Print and Web Publishing: an Interview with Jenna Freedman, Curator of the Barnard Zine Collection" Serials Review 32.6 (2006): 266-269. (Link requires a subscription to the journal.)

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Blandy, Doug. Zine course at the University of Oregon, "Zines and Do-It-Yourself Democracy."

Freedman, Jenna. "Locating the Disconnected: Zines in Academic Libraries," National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference 2006.

A talk Jenna Freedman gave at the Association of College and Research Libraries Conference in 2005 and also the hand out.

The talk listed above adapted for the Rare Book and Manuscript Pre-Conference, 2005.

Thi-Beard, Kate Vo. "Using Zines to Encourage Multiple Literacies," Wisconsin English Journal 47.2 (2005): 27-33.

July 14, 2007 Barnard Zine Librarian co-facilitated zine talk at the Twin Cities Zine Fest.

July 13, 2007 Barnard Zine Librarian presented at SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing).

July 2007 published "SISTERHOOD WOULD HAVE BEEN POWERFUL: notes on class and contemporary feminism" from Cupsize, no. 5.  1996.

June 2007 published "Different: Uniqueness and Judgment" from Cain, no. 3.

Zine Collection profiled in Boston Globe, May 6, 2007.

Panel presentation on Barnard Zine Collection wins women's studies award.

Barnard Zines LiveJournal launched, April 26, 2007. (Thanks to zine intern Jazmin.)

Barnard Zine Collection curator reading at Bluestockings, March 25, 2007.

Barnard Zine Collection spotlighted on the Columbia Libraries homepage, March, 2007.

Cite this Zine: How to Cite a Zine in Your Research Project Zine published December 6, 2006. Created by "The Zine Intern." (Thanks to zine intern Sarah.)