Library: WS 166: The World of Zines, Zine Making and Self-Publishing: Find Zines at Pace or Online

Visit the Print Zine Library at 161 William, 17th Floor

Click Here to Access a Spreadsheet of the Zine Collection at Pace

Check out this spreadsheet before you visit the Zine Library. You can see the titles and descriptions and pre-select zines you want to see. Use Ctrl F or Command F (Mac) to search for keywords on the page.

he Pace Zine Library is located at 41 Park Row, 15th floor (English dept.), room 1523.

Click here to view hours when someone is staffing the Zine Library and it is open for drop-in visits. NOTE: in upper right area, change the view from month to week or day to see all the details. You can also make an appointment if these hours don't work for you. Email us at zinelibrary@pace.edu.

If you are unable to visit the Zine Library, refer to the list of digitized or born-digital zines in the box below.

Online Zines

Quarantine Public Library
Quarantine Public Library is a repository of books (one-page aka mini zines) made by artists. "The works published here are for anyone to freely download, print and assemble—to keep or give away."
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"We wanted to make something to share as many of us are staying at home, disconnected from art, books, and one another. The project is not about COVID-19, but is explicitly of its time."
Printed Matter Digital Downloads
especially great for contemporary protest zines and pamphlets and the 1980s NYC literary journal The Portable Lower East Side.
Sherwood Forest Zine Library (Austin, TX)
from website: Check out our collection of hundreds of free downloadable pdfs and links to online readable zines!
***PLEASE NOTE - These zines are all focused on Black issues, protests/activism guides, law enforcement, abolishing policing, etc.
HIV Doula Work
Digital downloads of zines or pamphlets published by What Would an HIV Doula Do?, "a community of people joined in response to the ongoing AIDS Crisis. We understand a doula as someone who holds space during times of transition." Includes Covid era pamphlets as well.
Exile Books "Zine Pool"
digitized or born digital zines submitted to Exile Books (Miami, Florida)
Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP)
he Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) was first launched in November 2003 in an effort to preserve queer zines and make them available to other queers, researchers, historians, punks, and anyone else who has an interest DIY publishing and underground queer communities. from the website.
Barnard Zines with Online Links
Click on the title and then look for online link in upper right area. Some of these zines have been digitized so that you can get the original booklet version of the zine by printing out double sided and then folding and/or staping. Others are scanned as PDF files or other formats. They can be printed out in most cases, but not in the original booklet form.
Berea College Library Digitized Zines
An online, full-text sampling of the zine collection housed in Berea College's Hutchins Library. Zines digitized as PDF files.
Zines on the Internet Archive
This is a collection of uncensored, digitized zines, mainly from the late 20th Century. Searchable by title, subject, topic, date published, creator, and more.
Punk Planet Archive (on Internet Archive)
Punk Planet was a 16,000 print run punk zine, based in Chicago, Illinois, from 1994-1007. It focused most of its energy on looking at punk subculture rather than punk as simply a music genre. In addition to covering music, Punk Planet also covered visual arts and a wide variety of progressive issues — including media criticism, feminism, and labor issues. (from website)
Solidarity! Revolutionary Center and Radical Library
Located in Lawrence, Kansas the mission of Solidarity! Revolutionary Center and Radical Library is to organize as a non-hierarchical collective for the purpose of sharing and distributing information. The collection is compiled of Zines (personal, non-copy written, non-traditionally peer reviewed articles, journals, and art) that were specifically purchased, donated, traded, or created for the Solidarity! Collection. These works cover every topic from Globalization and the Industrial Prison Complex to first kisses. from the website.
Student Zines at SUNY College at New Paltz
12 student-made zines about life during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Project Nia Digitized Publications
Launched in 2009, Project NIA is an advocacy, organizing, popular education, research, and capacity-building center with the long-term goal of ending youth incarceration. This is a collection of over 50 zine publications, either "born digital" or digitized

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Visit the Print Zine Library at 161 William, 17th Floor

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