Zine,Artists' Publication, and Pamphlet Collection at Pace
totebag made by The Holster zine collective in 2009
Contact Derek Stroup or Susan Thomas to peruse the collection on the 17th Floor at the Pace building on William St.
dstroup@pace.edu, sthomas7@pace.edu
Deborah Poe established the Homemade/Handmade special collection at the Pace University Mortola Library in 2011. The collection includes handmade, homemade and letterpress chapbooks, one-of-a-kind editions, and broadsides. Selections from the collection are exhibited every March in the Mortola Library.
Learn more about the history of this project and view many photos on this blog, which was last updated in 2017.
There is a Facebook community page for Homemade/Handmade, as well: Search for Handmade/Homemade Exhibit.
Excerpts of a statement from Deborah Poe, published in Facebook:
"Whatcha Mean, What's a Zine?" (Esther Watson and Mark Todd)
In general, zines are part of booklet publications that include chapbooks, pamphlets, and artists' publications. The staple is usually a key feature of booklet culture.
Zine publishing and creation is more popular than ever, but zines are just part of the larger world of independent and self- publishing. This guide is for students and faculty who want to learn about the making, writing, printing, and publishing of not only zines but many other types of publications such as pamphlets, poetry chapbooks, posters, flyers, religious tracts, artists' books, photobooks, alternative press, little magazines, small press, and even vinyl and cassette objects. Overall, the print form prevails in the zine world, but this guide includes some discussion about e-zines and digitized, historical zines.
Book printers manufacture paperback books with a form of bookbinding called perfect binding, in which their pages are glued together to form a spine. Booklets like zines are not perfectly bound but are saddle stitched, a printer's term for stapled or wire stitched, or saddle sewn, bound with a needle and thread or string. A "foldy" zine consist of several pages folded together without any binding. Booklets tend to be produced in small runs, sometimes in numbered editions. Zines, chapbooks, and pamphlets share the booklet form.
Small Press has become the accepted term for modestly financed book publishers that issue the sorts of titles that commercial publishers would not publish. . . . Thus, compared to commercial publishers, Small Presses have been particularly open to those who are generally excluded – political or sexual radicals, avant-garde writers, black writers, or religious writers, to name a few.
Log in with your Pace credentials to read the complete definition: "Small Press." In A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes, by Richard Kostelanetz. 3rd ed. Routledge, 2019.
