... people, all at the author's own expense (Stoddart and Kiser, 2004). Zines are not usually a standard part of a public library's collection: Notorious for their ephemeral nature, criticized for sloppy production values and dubious credibility, self‐published magazines … are seen by libraries...

... evidence on the availability of popular culture materials in libraries. The descriptive statistics for the OCLC library holding and magazine circulation statistics are reported in Table II . In 1992, the mean number of OCLC member libraries holding popular culture magazines was 20.1 percent. This mean...

... This paper builds on work presented by the authors and others at the 12th National ACRL conference in Minneapolis, where zine collections in different types of academic and research libraries were discussed. Findings Zines document contemporary culture in the same way newspapers, magazines, TV, radio...