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It seems that the end of August is upon us and what that means for us here at the Brooklyn College Library Zine Collection is <sigh> the end of our internship.  Robin and I have spent several months working under the tutelage of Alycia Sellie which has been, in my humble opinion, a superb experience.  This […]

As the steamy, summer days of August whoosh by, we are aiming to make the most of our time here at the Brooklyn College Library.  A big part of our realizing how to proceed in the development of our own zine collection is exploring our neighboring NYC collections.  Lucky us, we have been granted time from […]

Today we continued our zine collections of NYC crawl and found ourselves at the glorious Stephen A. Schwarzman branch of the New York Public Library.  Here we met with Karen Gisonny, librarian for Periodicals and Journals and keeper of the zine collection.  Karen started us off with a brief tour and background of the DeWitt Wallace […]

This morning may have felt like a rather ordinary Thursday, on the 21st of July.  But here at the Brooklyn College Library, we are joining scores of other librarians, zinesters, teachers and lovers of the zine in celebrating International Zine Library Day.  The timing is really quite perfect for us as we progress in the creation […]