Research Guides: Zines: Books (Catalog)

Library Catalog

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Use the Library Catalog to search for items located at any of the Dallas College library locations, including:

Printed Books
eBooks
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Finding Books in the Library

Searching for print books or eBooks in the Library Catalog

To find print books or eBooks in the Library Catalog, follow these steps:

1. Type your search in the Library Catalog search box above. The results will open in a new window.

If you need help with searching for your topic, use the Suggested Catalog Searches on the right-hand side of this page.

2. Then, refine your results on the left-hand side of the page.

To find print books, refine your results to Show Only: Available in the Library, Resource Type: Books, and Library: Select your Campus.
To find eBooks, refine your results to Show Only: Full Text Online and Resource Type: Books.

Finding print books on the shelf

At each campus, books are organized using the Library of Congress (LC) Classification System. To find a book on the shelf, you will need some information from the Library Catalog. Under the title of the book in the catalog, you will see the Campus, Section, and Call Number.

For example, this information may be listed as Available at Brookhaven Campus (Brookhaven is the Campus where this book is located) Main Collection or in this case, Leisure Reading Collection (the section where this book is located in library) Z 286 .Z54 T63 2006 (the call number tells where this book is shelved in the library).

Zines are more challenging to browse in our print collection at the library, because subjects can be about anything, across the entire LC Classification System. We recommend having a list of titles ready with you before you approach the shelves.

Need help finding a book in the library? Ask a Librarian.

Interlibrary Loan

If you find a book about zines that you would like to access, but Dallas College does not own or provide access to it, request the book through Interlibrary Loan. Check this guide to learn more about this service.

You can check other libraries' catalog or WorldCat with some of these keywords:

Zines
Fanzines, perzines
Little Magazines
Self-published OR self-publishing
Underground press
Alternative Press

Suggested Print Books

Whatcha Mean, What's a Zine? by Esther Watson; Mark Todd (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780618563159
Publication Date: 2006-06-26
A zine is a handmade magazine or mini-comic about anything you can imagine: favorite bands, personal stories, subcultures, or collections. They contain diary entries, rants, interviews, and stories. They can be by one person or many, found in stores, traded at comic conventions, exchanged with friends, or given away for free. Zines are not a new idea: they've been around for years under various names (chapbooks, flyers, pamphlets). People with independent ideas have been getting their word out since before there were printing presses. This book is for anyone who wants to create their own zine. It's for learning tips and tricks from contributors who have been at the fore front of the zine movement. It's for getting inspired to put thoughts and ideas down on paper. It's for learning how to design and print your own zine so you can put it in others' hands. Whatcha Mean, What's a Zine? is for anyone who has something to say.
Touch and Go by Tesco Vee; Dave Stimson; Ian MacKaye (Foreword by); Henry Rollins (Foreword by); Corey Rusk (Introduction by); Steve Miller (Editor); Keith Morris (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780979616389
Publication Date: 2010-06-30
Touch and Go Fanzine was the brainchild of Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson and was launched in Michigan in 1979. Major fans of the new punk happenings in the late 1970s, the pair set out to chronicle, lambast, ridicule and heap praise on all they loved and hated about music communities in the US and abroad. Touch and Go features the complete series 1979-1983: 22 issues of the most significant US hardcore punk zine in one loud, fast volume!
Make a Zine! by Bill Brent; Paul T. Olson (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0963740148
Publication Date: 1997-04-01
In Microcosm’s DIY guide to zine-making, editors Bill Brent, Joe Biel, and a cast of contributors take you from the dreaming and scheming stages onto printing, publication and beyond! Covering all the bases for beginners, Make a Zine! hits on more advanced topics like Creative Commons licenses, legality, and sustainability. Says Feminist Review, Make a Zine! is an inspiring, easy, and digestible read for anyone, whether you’re already immersed in a cut-and-paste world, a graphic designer with a penchant for radical thought, or a newbie trying to find the best way to make yourself and your ideas known.”
Punk Press by Vincent Bernière; Mariel Primois; Vincent Bernière
ISBN: 9781419706295
Publication Date: 2013-03-05
Punk was born on the East Coast in the late 1960s, later crossing the Atlantic and exploding in London and Paris. This dynamic countermovement churned out heaps of professional magazines and photocopied, hand-stapled fanzines, all expressing ideas on music, art, and current events. By creating its own press, the punk movement secured its place in the history of 20th-century culture. Featuring collages, cutouts, and handcrafted typography, Punk Press compiles the stunning graphics created by these publications, spanning from the East Village to East London to the Left Bank. With unforgettable images of punk's greatest bands--the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Dead Kennedys, Iggy Pop, and more--this is a captivating look at some of music's most fascinating personalities and greatest talents.
Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
ISBN: 9781626726352
Publication Date: 2017-09-19
Different from the rest of the suggested books on this list, Moxie is a fiction novel about a high school girl who creates and distributes a zine at her school in a small Texas town. Inspired by her punk rock Riot Grrrl mother and fed up with the sexism and misogyny rampant at her school, Viv creates an anonymous feminist zine that sparks a revolution with her classmates. This book is a great resource to illustrate the real power of zines: the community created and found within zinesters and readers. It highlights the foundation of zine-making as passion projects where marginalized communities can get their message across through self-creation and self-publishing, free from the constraints of publishers or having to answer to anyone but themselves.

Books at Other Libraries

WorldCat

If you'd like to search for items at other libraries, WorldCat can help. WorldCat lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. Click on the link below to search using WorldCat. TexShare card users can search local libraries for items using WorldCat. To request an item via Interlibrary Loan, click on the other link in this box.

WorldCat

Interlibrary Loan

Books, periodical articles, and other items not available at Dallas College can be requested via interlibrary loan. Click on the link below for more information and to make a request. NOTE: Textbooks are not available through the interlibrary loan program.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL)

Intercampus Loan

What is Intercampus Loan?

Dallas College students, staff and faculty can borrow items from any Dallas College campus library by requesting via the Library catalog. Items will be sent from their home campus to the campus requested via intercampus mail. This process usually takes 3-5 days. After making a request, you will receive an email notification via your Dallas College email account that your item is available for pickup.

Intercampus Loan Guidelines

Most library items can be requested via intercampus loan.

You cannot request:

laptops
hotspots
calculators
course reserves
anatomy/science models

If you find an item that does not allow requests that you think should be available, please reach out a librarian via chat or email.

How to Request an Intercampus Loan

Step 1: Find the item you would like to borrow by searching the library catalog and click the title to go to the item's catalog page.

Step 2: Look for the yellow Get It box on the item's catalog page. Sign in using your Dallas College email (students: e1234567@student.dcccd.edu staff: 3x4@dcccd.edu)

Step 3: A Request link should now be available in the Get It box. Click this link and choose your preferred pickup location. No terms of use or comment choice is necessary. Send request.

Step 4: You will be notified of your item's arrival via your Dallas College email account. Items will be held at the circulation desk for pickup.

Suggested eBooks

From A to Zine by Julie Bartel
ISBN: 0838998100
Girl Zines by Alison Piepmeier; Andi Zeisler (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0814768504
Publication Date: 2009-11-01
No detailed description available for "Girl Zines".
Intimate Ephemera by Anna Poletti
ISBN: 0522855652
Publication Date: 2008-05-05
Intimate Ephemera is the first major study of autobiographical writing produced and consumed in a youth subculture. Investigating the uses of the zine form for life writing, it examines the recurrent themes in texts circulating in Australian zine culture, including depression, consumerism, popular culture and political identity. Intimate Ephemera also examines zine culture as a unique community of life writing and reading, where handmade texts circulate in an economy of gifting and exchange utilising the postal system. The book analyses the material diversity of zines as handmade objects, examining the use of the photocopier and craft techniques in these limited edition publications, bringing a focus to the role of the text-object in communicating personal experience.
Making Feminist Media by Elizabeth Groeneveld
ISBN: 1771121203
Publication Date: 2016-08-30
Making Feminist Media provides new ways of thinking about the vibrant media and craft cultures generated by Riot Grrrl and feminism's third wave. It focuses on a cluster of feminist publications--including BUST, Bitch, HUES, Venus Zine, and Rockrgrl--that began as zines in the 1990s. By tracking their successes and failures, this book provides insight into the politics of feminism's recent past. Making Feminist Media brings together interviews with magazine editors, research from zine archives, and analysis of the advertising, articles, editorials, and letters to the editor found in third-wave feminist magazines. It situates these publications within the long history of feminist publishing in the United States and Canada and argues that third-wave feminist magazines share important continuities and breaks with their historical forerunners. These publishing lineages challenge the still-dominant--and hotly contested-- wave metaphor categorization of feminist culture. The stories, struggles, and strategies of these magazines not only represent contemporary feminism, they create and shape feminist cultures. The publications provide a feminist counter-public sphere in which the competing interests of editors, writers, readers, and advertisers can interact. Making Feminist Media argues that reading feminist magazines is far more than the consumption of information or entertainment: it is a profoundly intimate and political activity that shapes how readers understand themselves and each other as feminist thinkers.
The Archival Turn in Feminism by Kate Eichhorn
ISBN: 1439909539
Publication Date: 2013-07-26
In the 1990s, a generation of women born during the rise of the second wave feminist movement plotted a revolution. These young activists funneled their outrage and energy into creating music, and zines using salvaged audio equipment and stolen time on copy machines. By 2000, the cultural artifacts of this movement had started to migrate from basements and storage units to community and university archives, establishing new sites of storytelling and political activism. The Archival Turn in Feminism chronicles these important cultural artifacts and their collection, cataloging, preservation, and distribution. Cultural studies scholar Kate Eichhorn examines institutions such as the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture at Duke University, The Riot Grrrl Collection at New York University, and the Barnard Zine Library. She also profiles the archivists who have assembled these significant feminist collections. Eichhorn shows why young feminist activists, cultural producers, and scholars embraced the archive, and how they used it to stage political alliances across eras and generations. A volume in the American Literatures Initiative
Alternative Media by Chris Atton
ISBN: 0761967710
Publication Date: 2001-12-19
What are `alternative media′? Are they the same as underground, radical or oppositional media? In this book, Chris Atton offers a fresh introduction to alternative media: one which is not limited to `radical′ media, but can also account for newer cultural forms such as zines, fanzines, and personal websites. Alternative Media: · Examines how and why people produce and use alternative media - to make meaning, to interpret, and to change the world in which they live · Encompasses a wide range of alternative media and draws on examples from both the United States and United Kingdom · Locates contemporary alternative media in their cultural, historical and political contexts Alternative Media provides a timely corrective to media theorizing which focuses almost exclusively on the output of the media conglomerates. As such it will be an essential purchase for all students and researchers with an interest in the true nature of the contemporary media environment.
Feminist Media by Elke Zobl (Editor); Ricarda üeke (Editor)
ISBN: 9783839421574
Publication Date: 2014-04-27
While feminists have long recognised the importance of self-managed, alternative media to transport their messages, to challenge the status quo, and to spin novel social processes, this topic has been an under-researched area. Hence, this book explores the processes of women's and feminist media production in the context of participatory spaces, technology, and cultural citizenship.The collection is composed of theoretical analyses and critical case studies. It highlights contemporary alternative feminist media in general as well as blogs, zines, culture jamming, and street art.

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