😻 (ZineCat or ZUC for short) 😻
- What are we doing and why
- Who are we
- What do we need
- How can you get involved
- Get in touch
- Find out more
- Thank you
- Understand the jargon
There is no one central catalog (a database of holdings in a library or zine collecting institution) for searching and finding zines. In the US, Worldcat.org provides access to a union catalog, but it is mostly for books, journals, and audio visual materials. Zine and zine collections are not consistently cataloged in WorldCat.
The Zine Union Catalog (ZUC) fills a gap by providing a searchable platform to discover zines and zine collections.
We are a group of librarians, zinesters, archivists, zine collectors, zine enthusiasts, and more. 😸 All are welcome!! 😸
For the last two years, Jenna Freedman & Lauren Kehoe have been working on the development of ZineCat through work in their MA in Digital Humanities program at the CUNY Graduate Center, but there are many more involved in the project!
- zine metadata
- a near comprehensive list of zine collections
- volunteers
- a developer for the front and backends of the catalog, run on Collective Access (https://www.collectiveaccess.org/)
- outreach support
- provide feedback
- donate time
- donate expertise
- make a suggestion
- make a connection
- make a zine
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Follow:
- Blog: http://blog.zinecat.org/
- Twitter: @zinecat
- Facebook: @ZineUnionCatalog
- Instagram: @ZineUnionCat
Thank you to all the caticorns in the universe that have already gotten involved in building the Zine Union Catalog and thank you to all the future caticorns for their contributions! 😺
- zine
- catalog
- union catalog
- metadata
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