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Literary Artifacts

Check it out: Kristopher Jansma just published this piece about the Brooklyn College Library Zine Collection over at The Outlet, titled Literary Artifacts: Say You Want a Revolution? Zines at the Brooklyn College Library.

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Via Zines, Brooklyn Voices on Display

Check out today’s Wall Street Journal for an article about the Brooklyn College Library Zine Collection.

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SAVE THE DATE: JULY 31 BROOKLYN COLLEGE LIBRARY ZINE OPENING CELEBRATION

Mark your calendars: on Tuesday, July 31, 2012, the Brooklyn College Library will celebrate the opening of our zine collection from 7-9pm. We will debut the new browsing collection in the library and applaud Brooklyn zines. This celebration will be … Continue reading

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See you at the Brooklyn Zine Fest!

       We’re excited to be tabling at the Brooklyn Zine Fest tomorrow–we’ll debut a new BCL zine, and hope to do some trades for the collection! p.s. We really love the Meet Your Zinemaker series that the BZF … Continue reading

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Essential Hues Looking for Zines

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Full Circle: UpSet Press and Alumni Zinesters!

Poking about on the internet, I ran across this article from the Brooklyn Rail and knew that I had to get in touch with Zohra Saed and Robert Booras, or UpSet Press. Two parts of the article really caught my … Continue reading

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Collection Spotlight #2: Brooklyn!

This week, it is my pleasure to present one of the first zine donations we received here at the Brooklyn College Library: Brooklyn! by Fred Argoff. We have received more than 20 issues from this prolific zinester. Fred is also the brains … Continue reading

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Zine Fest in Brooklyn Sept 24-25!

Fall Into Zines at Pete’s Candy Store! The 3rd installation of the Pete’s Mini Zine Fest series. September 24, zine reading – hear from the zines in the festival. 6:30-7:30pm. free. September 25, zine fest – peruse zines and comics … Continue reading

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Collection Spotlight #1: Womanimalistic #1

We recently received Womanimalistic #1, sent by zinester Caroline Paquita (carolinepaquita.com). Womanimalistic is printed on a risograph duplicator, and the resulting blue hand-written content is homey and refreshing.  The richly patterned, adorably illustrated contents are full of animal-lady characters. The … Continue reading

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