Zines and Acquisitions: Adventure and Conundrum

Chapter 7 in the book "Zines in Libraries: Selecting, Purchasing, and Processing: Selecting, Purchasing, and Processing." This chapter focuses on workflows for the acquisitions of zines in libraries. Their homegrown and esoteric aesthetic make zines important cultural and historical objects. Including them in library collections is a perfect way to amplify underrepresented voices. But the road from acquisition to cataloging these underground, self-published, and often fragile items can be difficult. This resource smooths the path forward, offering top-to-bottom guidance for collection development and acquisitions staff, administrators, catalogers, and access services librarians in understanding and processing zines for library collections