Zines in Academic Libraries
Zines in Public Libraries
Zines in School Libraries
Zines in Volunteer Libraries and Infoshops

ZINES IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES

Barnard College, NYC, NY
Self-identified women's personal and political zines. Open stacks and archives collections.

Beloit College, Beloit, WI

BGSU, Bowling Green, OH

Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
Southwest zines

Duke University, Durham, NC
Includes the Sarah Dyer collection

Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT

 Michigan State, East Lansing, MI
Comics are their specialty.

 Minnesota Community and Technical College, Minneapolis, MN

U. Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Political, especially anarchist zines.

Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Art zines

San Diego State University West Coast Zine Collection, San Diego, CA

Smith College, Northampton, MA
Girls' zines, many from Tristan Taormino's collection.

Tulane University Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, New Orleans, LA
Zines by southern women.

UCLA, Los Angeles, CGirls' zines, many from Tristan Taormino's collection.

UCLA Zines from around Western New York circa early to mid 1990s

University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Zines from around Western New York circa early to mid 1990s

University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
Science fiction fanzines

University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Special collections including "zines relating to avant-garde, underground, and popular music," Blakes 7 fanzines, fan fiction, apazines, science fiction fanzines, Star Trek, Star Wars, and riot grrrl. Also zines from the Zine Machine.

University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK
Supports an arts, design & media illustration course

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Science fiction fanzines, and also comic books

Watkins College of Art & Design, Nashville, TN

Victoria University, Wellington, NZ
Feminist Zine Library

The Women's Library, London

PUBLIC LIBRARIES WITH ZINE COLLECTIONS OR PROGRAMS

Austin Public Library, Austin, TX

Baltimore County Public Library, Baltimore, MD

Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, PA

Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, OH

Cuyahoga County Public Library, Independence, OH
Teen collection at Independence branch.

Jacksonville Public Library, Jacksonville, FL
"We hope to focus on regionally based zines, but our scope will be broad, including publications devoted to arts, culture, comics, politics, and advocacy."

Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, MO

Kitsap Regional Library: Port Orchard Branch, Port Orchard, WA
Local, teen, comics, northwest zines

Linebaugh Public Library, Murfreesboro, TN
nearly 200 bibliographic records, most representing not items about zines but zines themselves.

Maricopa County Library District, Maricopa County, AZ
Teen zine programming (not a zine collection)

Minneapolis Public Library Walker Branch, Minneapolis, MN
Search for subject Fanzines and you'll retrieve a list of nearly 200 bibliographic records, most representing not items about zines but zines themselves.

Multnomah County Public Library, Portland, OR

New York Public Library, New York City

New York State Library, Albany, NY
They have the Factsheet Five collection.

Port Phillip Library Service, Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia

Salt Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City, UT

San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA

Timberland Regional Library, Olympia, WA
Search for them in the catalog using keyword <zine>

State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, Canada
coming soon

Wellington City Libraries, Wellington, New Zealand

Ypsilanti District Library, Ypsilanti, MI

ZINES IN SCHOOL LIBRARIES

Plymouth Regional High School,
Plymouth NH Zines are not cataloged, but they do circulate.

ZINES IN VOLUNTEER LIBRARIES AND INFOSHOPS

56a Zine Library, London, England

ABC No Rio Zine Library, NYC, NY

AboveGround Zine Library, New Orleans, LA

Anchor Archive Zine Library, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
They also have a blog.

Austin Zine Library, Austin, TX
In the Rhizome Collective's Center for Community Organizing

Bako Zines Library, Bakersfield, CA
Inside Downtown Records.
They're looking for donations: P.O. Box 30117 Bakersfield, CA. 93385

Bat Annex Free School Library, Minneapolis, MN.
Their catalog is online at LibraryThing.

Bibliograph, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Bilingual (Français/English)

Beautiful/Decay, Culver City, CA
Art and comix zines

Black Rose at the Red and Black Cafe, Portland, OR

Calgary Zine Library, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
In progress

Charm City Art Space, Baltimore, MD
About half personal zines, and half punk zines like MRR and HeartattaCk.

Chicago Underground Library, Chicago, IL
Anything self-published in Chicago

Denver Zine Library, Denver, CO
Going on hiatus imminently. (July 2009)

Dry River Zine Library, Tucson, AZ

Fanzinotheque, Poitiers, France

Flying Brick Library, Richmond, VA

Flywheel, Easthampton, MA

Hamilton Zine LibraryHamilton, Ontario, Canada

Internet Archive, San Francisco, CA

Zines available online from the Internet Archive. Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC), Portland, OR

K/S Zine Library, one in New Jersey, one in Scotland
By subscription. Star Trek fanzines and slash fiction.

Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
Zines and artist's books.

Mobile Menstrual Zine Library, Sheffield, UK
Reference only.

Nagi Shokudo, Shibuya, Japan
Zine library in a vegan restaurant. Japanese/English collection. From VLU blog.

Octapod, Newcastle NSW, Australia

Olympia Zine Library, Olympia, WA

Omaha Zine Library, Omaha, NE

Papercut Zine Library, Cambridge, MA

Punk Zine Archive,  Mill Creek, WA
Pdfs of out of print issues of punk zines including Flipside, HeartattaCk, Maximumrocknroll, and Suburban Voice.

Queer Zine Archive Project, Milwaukee, WI
Queer zines available in pdf for download.

The Richard Hugo House Zine Archive & Publishing Project, Seattle, WA

Rock! Paper! Scissors! Zine Library, Oakland, CA

Schulz Library, White River Junction, VT
The library for the Center for Cartoon Studies. Also has graphic novels, cartoon collections, and related ephemera.

Sheridan College Library, Oakville, Ontario, Canada

Slumgullion Independent Publishing Co-op, Missoula, MT
Local and kid friendly zines, and others.

Small Science Zine Library, Chicago, IL
Science zines to download.

Toronto Zine Library, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Unofficial SUNY New Paltz Traveling Zine Library, New Paltz, NY

Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, Urbana, IL

The Women's Library, London, England

Zinelibrary.info
An online library which have hundreds of radical zines ready to print.