Boston’s Papercut Zine Library.

I love zines. I made one myself, for quite a while. I quit doing the zine. Publications like Factsheet Five are becoming increacingly diffficult to find. Blogs have nearly overtaken the zine thing, in so many ways, but not completely.

Blog of a Bookslut has indicated that the zine scene is not as dead as I thought it was. In fact a zine library has recently caught the attention of The Boston Globe. The post, The Boston Globe profiles Boston’s Papercut Zine Library says that “There are zine libraries all over the country.” That’s good news to me.

From the Globe:

Just blocks from some of the world’s most esteemed libraries, a very different reading room has sprung up: Papercut Zine Library, dedicated solely to the quirky, independently published magazines known as ”zines.”

It’s a humble space, a small, wood-paneled room in a fading leftist meeting hall, with a hand-printed sign taped to the peeling front door

This entry was posted by Dylan June 14th, 2005 and is tagged: Ephemera, line library, zine, zines . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

Comments

Barbara June 14th

I was going to send you the article from the Sunday Globe. How did you hear about this?

FYI This summer’s intern is from Cyprus.
Dylan Kinnett June 14th

I heard about this from Blog of a Bookslut

Hey wow, Cyprus! Do tell…
Mothra September 20th

hello there, came across your entry from a search on google. I am the founder of the papercut zine library and one of several librarians/co-runners (we’re a collective). Its great to hear people talking about this little project we set forth on over a year ago.

I just wanted to say thanks for spreading the word!

-mothra-