{"id":540,"date":"2007-05-09T13:13:06","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T19:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/540"},"modified":"2007-05-09T13:13:06","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T19:13:06","slug":"zines-organization-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/540","title":{"rendered":"Zines organization in the news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/globe\/ideas\/articles\/2007\/05\/06\/file_under_other\/\">great article about libraries that collect zines<\/a>,   and how hard it is to make zines conform to how libraries are set up &#8211; both in content and in design. The topics in one zine may be incredibly varied,   and there is no standard structure for making a zine, so it may be bound with gum, or written in blood.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve thought a lot about. From the conservationist standpoint, there&#8217;s the question of maintaining an item that is made using a photocopier and has candy taped into it. Also how to shelve the zine. From the cataloger standpoint, there&#8217;s a list of questions to be asked, from finding out when the zine was published (not necessarily written on the zine) to how to describe the subjects written about.<\/p>\n<p>I think the fact that we can&#8217;t pigeonhole zines into pre-existing standards is exactly what makes them fantastic &#8211; malleable and indescribable. I&#8217;m OK with this dissonance. Well, I might scan the contents, candy and all. But then I&#8217;m OK with it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/papertraildistro.com\/zines\/emergency3.jpg\" alt=\"Ammi Emergency\" \/><br \/>\n(My currently favorite zine.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe has a great article about libraries that collect zines, and how hard it is to make zines conform to how libraries are set up &#8211; both in content and in design. The topics in one zine may be incredibly varied, and there is no standard structure for making a zine, so it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-librarical"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}