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From A to 'Zine': Library adds fun collection

Some might see libraries as never-ending stacks filled only with vintage books, scholarly journals and important articles they may one day need for a research paper.

They offer much more, of course, and this spring the Cofrin Library added to the variety with a lively new zine collection. Zines (pronounced zeens) are handmade magazine or mini comic books about anything you can imagine, from favorite bands and movies to subcultures and personal confessions.

“Zines differ from magazines because they are self-published,” explains library staff member Debra Strelka. “There are normally no editors and no advertisers, just someone who has a message and the desire to get it out to the public in some way.”

All of the library’s zines were donated from the personal collections of Sarah Detweiler, a professor of Arts and Visual Design, and Stephen Perkins, academic curator of art. Both have written articles for, or authored, their own zines.

“Reading zines allows the reader to engage in and with the diverse voices within society and culture,” Detweiler says. Zines have been around for as long as people have been expressing themselves on paper, and include things such as diary entries, rants, reviews, interviews, poems, photos, essays and short stories.

You can find the zines on the fourth floor of UW-Green Bay’s Cofrin Library.

— text by Megan Gustafson, 2008 Alumni Relations intern, Sheboygan, Wis.


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