Hello, zine friends! An ear infection has me running behind, but that just means that you get double the fun today for International Zine Month prompts. Hehe.
Day 21 Prompt:
Zine Library Day! Don’t have one in your area? Why not start one?
I’ve never had the pleasure of visiting a zine library. One zine experience I am lacking – and one that I don’t look like having in my new home state anytime soon. However…
I have the beginnings of a zine library! I’m not claiming to know much about running a real zine library or anything along those lines, but I have a pretty healthy zine collection, and now – thanks to True Zine Marin – I have a set of books about zines to go along with it. ^_^
Do you have a local zine library? Have you started one? I’d love to know more!
Day 22 Prompt:
Send your zine to a zine library
So far in my zine-ing life, I have sent my zines to the zine library that is part of Copy and Destroy. It being local helps with the postage costs. But I do hope to send my zines to more libraries.
However, my list of zine libraries around the world is very lacking! I only know of:
Salford Zine Library (UK)
Richmond Independent Zine Library (US)
I would love to add to the list, so if you know if any zine libraries, please let me know.
Until tomorrow!
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List of activities: http://www.stolensharpierevolution.org/international-zine-month/
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/internationalzinemonth/
Others Joining In :
*Echo Publishing – https://echopublishing.wordpress.com
*Feral Publications – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-dA2HTUon0
*You?
Sea Green Zines 
In Belgium there are a few libraries and archives that have zines in their collection: a feminist library, a social history archive, an artzine-focused zine library, and an anarchist library. there is also another zine library that i haven’t visited yet. i’m lucky that Belgium is small so it’s easy and relatively cheap to travel to other neighbouring countries that have zine libraries.
so cool you’re starting your own zine library! very cool sounding name too!
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Since getting to know you, I’ve become more and more convinced that I need to visit Belgium. It sounds so lovely and zine-active.
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😀 yay! Belgium has the advantage that it’s very small and condensed (is that a word?) so it’s easy to get to different cities quickly. it’s not super active zine-wise in my opinion but maybe I just post a lot about every single little thing that exists. 🙂 the libraries I mentioned just have (some) zines in their collection but don’t all mainly focus on zines (apart from 2). but I have the secret plan to encourage more zine collecting in some of them! 🙂
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Having a lot nearby seems a little strange – especially since I moved to a smaller regional town. Haha. There doesn’t seem to be much of anything in the whole state of South Australia, so I’m a bit envious of anything. Hehe. On another note, I got a bit curious and found this comparison of Belgium to Australia: http://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/country-size-comparison/australia/belgium
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That’s interesting to see that comparison of Australia and Belgium! Haha, 99,7% less coastline! Well, we really have the tinyest coast and you have a lot! 🙂
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