Illinois

Autonomous Zone, 1573 N. Milwaukee Ave #420, Chicago IL 60622; www.azone.org; autonomous-zone@riseup.net; drop-in: 2129 N. Milwaukee Ave.

"The Autonomous Zone is a collective space oriented towards social liberation and creative communities, where people can freely exchange ideas. We have 1600 sq. feet of space for event hosting ... and a huge radical zine and book library."

Chicago Underground Library, PO Box 11040, Chicago IL 60611; info@underground-library.org; www.underground-library.org

"The Chicago Underground Library is a project that aims to create an archive of self- and small press-published works in Chicago. Through a searchable online archive and eventually a physical space, it will open new opportunities for research, inspiration, and collaboration among those in and outside of the publishing community." Looking for donations and loans of items published in Chicago; see website for donation form. Also looking for volunteers.

Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center Library, 218 W. Main St., Urbana IL 61801; 217-344-8820; www.ucimc.org/library/; open daily

"The U-C IMC Library is a non-profit volunteer collective that supports the information needs of the IMC media creators and the community at large. The library attempts to collect material that gives voice to those not portrayed in the mainstream/corporate media outlets." Collects, periodicals, books, zines, videos, etc.; catalog online.

Kansas

Solidarity! Revolutionary Center and Radical Library, 1109 Massachusetts St., Lawrence KS 66044, www.lawrencesolidarity.net

"Solidarity! is an all-volunteer operated lending library, infoshop, and community space. Solidarity! offers over 4,000 books on topics ranging from anarchism to environmentalism, from feminism to vegan cooking. We are also home to over 5,000 magazines, periodicals, pamphlets, zines, and other publications. We host many live events (shows, film screenings, discussions, etc.) and serve as a free-of-charge community space for other local organizations to hold meetings and events." Open daily in afternoon; nights on Friday & Saturday.

Louisiana

Aboveground Zine Library, 107 E. Lakeshore Dr., Carriere MS 39426, attn: Robb Roemershauser; 504-250-9543; drop-in: Iron Rail Bookstore, 511 Marigny St., New Orleans LA 70117, 504-944-0366; www.geocities.com/abovegroundlibrary; abovegroundlibrary@yahoo.com

"Accepts zines including riot grrl, anarchy, music, punk, hardcore, queer, and fiction (no porn or hate zines)." The Aboveground Zine Library reopened two months after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans; no zines were damaged. Open afternoons daily.

Maryland

Baltimore County Public Library Zine Collection, Cockeysville Library, 9833 Greenside Dr., Cockeysville MD 21030-2188; 410-877-7750; bcplzines@gmail.com

The BCPL Zine Collection is a pilot project of the Baltimore County Public Library system. Accepting donations; also hosts zine readings and other zine events. Zines can be checked out and even borrowed via interlibrary loan. Open daily M-Sa.

Massachusetts

Flywheel Zine Library, 2 Holyoke St., Easthampton MA 01027; 413-527-9800; info@flywheelarts.org; www.flywheelarts.org

Flywheel, a collectively run, not-for-profit space, aims to build community and give artists of all types the opportunity to craft, practice, and perform their work in an environment where creativity is valued over profit.

Lucy Parsons Center, 549 Columbus Ave., Boston MA 02118-1125; 617-267-6272; lucyparsons@tao.ca; www.lucyparsons.org; open daily

"The Lucy Parsons Center has a well-stocked bookstore ... covering every wing of the progressive movement. We also receive, display, and distribute dozens of newsletters, events notices, and flyers from projects and organizations locally and around the world."

Papercut Zine Library, 45 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge MA 02138; 617-492-2606; www.myspace.com/papercutzinelibrary; papercut@riseup.net

"The Papercut Zine Library Collective is a fully functioning lending library complete with free membership and an extensive catalog. Our library includes a space for people to come and make their own zines, hold discussions, experiment with materials, and just chill and read. We currently have more than 5000 zines." Welcomes zine donations of any type. Hours vary.

Winchester High School Zine Library. New address (for donations): WHS Library, attn: Zine Collection, 80 Skillings Rd., Winchester MA 01890.

"I'm looking for donations of zines. ... It's in the high school library and a really awesome way to introduce high schoolers to zines, as well as inspiring them to create their own."

Michigan

Brighter Days Infoshop, 1914 E. Michigan Ave., Lansing MI 48912; 517-367-6069; www.geocities.com/Lansing_Infoshop

Offers a resource center with a lending library, a community space, educational events, and more.

Idle Kids Books & Records, 3535 Cass, Detroit, MI 48201; 313-832-7730; www.idlekids.com/zine.html; jesi@idlekids.com; open daily

"We are a collectively run book and music store, but we are also much more. Idle Kids is community-based and is involved with many projects. The Zine Library is a collection of zines housed by Idle Kids Books & Records."

Labadie Collection, 711 Harlan Hatcher Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI 48109; attn: Julie Herrada; 734-764-9377; jherrada@umich.edu; www.lib.umich.edu/spec-coll/labadie; open M-Sa

Primarily interested in anarchist-leaning publications. "We still collect anarchist zines, but also the not-explicitly-anarchist-but-with-anarchist-leanings like anti-tech, radical environmental, animal liberation, alternative energies and economies, DIY, critical mass, etc., and zines written by and about transgenders, especially trans-youth."

Michigan State University Libraries, 100 Library, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI 48824-1048, attn: Randall W. Scott, Popular Culture Bibliographer; 517 355-3770; scottr@msu.edu; www.lib.msu.edu/comics; open daily

"We are accepting zines, and though we focus our cataloging efforts on comix ones, all are welcome. The zines are not kept separate in our collection but cataloged using the Library of Congress system. Cataloging is slow but sure: nothing is disrespected or thrown away."

Rocket Star Café, 1502 W. Michigan, Kalamazoo MI 49006; www.rocketstarcafe.com

Seeking donations. Open daily.

Minnesota

Arise Bookstore and Resource Center, 2441 Lyndale Ave., Minneapolis MN 55405; 612-871-7110; www.arisebookstore.org; paarise@mtn.org; open daily

"Arise is: a bookstore carrying alternative books and periodicals for people involved in South African, Irish, Native American, and other liberation struggles; a library of books, periodicals, files and videos (for in-house use only); and a space for public events."

Bat Annex Center for Learning and Resources, 3024 Minnehaha Ave., Minneapolis MN 55404; 612-724-2161; open W-Th, Sa

Offers a resource center, a library, meeting space, and classes on self-empowerment.

Minneapolis Community & Technical College, Library Zine Collection, 1501 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis MN 55403, attn: Tom Eland; www.mctc.mnscu.edu/library/pages/alternative.htm

"Our zines do not circulate but are available for viewing and photocopying in the library. We currently have about 2,500 zines in the collection." Accepts all donations.

Stevens Square Center for the Arts, Gerald Prokop, 1905 3rd Ave. S., Minneapolis MN 55404; zines@stevensarts.org; www.stevensarts.org/zines; Open during exhibits.

Missouri

Bread and Roses Library, Colleen McKee, Head Librarian c/o CAMP Zines, PO Box 63232, St. Louis MO 63163; lilyofthegutter@yahoo.com; www.stlcamp.org/bread_rose.html; drop-in: The library will be located at 3022 Cherokee, at the corner of Cherokee and Minnesota. Although it is not yet open due to extensive renovation of the building.

Montana

Mansfield Library, Small Press Collection, University of Montana, Missoula MT 59812, attn: Chris Mullin; open Su-F

"We want one copy of every zine we can get, and will try to keep that copy safe forever, but anybody can read it whenever we're open. The only reason we keep these locked up, and make the photocopies ourselves, is so that they will still be around 50 or 100 years from now. Send them along! We have close to 2,000 issues now."

New Mexico

Warehouse 21, 1614 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe NM 87501; 505-989-4423; www.warehouse21.org; open M-F

"W21 kindly receives zines in art, poetry, politics and social issues."

New York

ABC No Rio Zine Library, 156 Rivington St., New York NY 10002; 212-254-3697 ext. 323; www.abcnorio.org/facilities/zine_library.html; zine@abcnorio.org

"ABC No Rio is a collectively-run center for art and activism. The ABC No Rio Zine Library contains more than 7000 items. We are most interested in zines addressing political and social issues. Our focus does not include poetry."

Access Community Infoshop, 3180 Main St., Buffalo NY 14214; accesscommunity@hotmail.com; www.accesscommunity.net

"Access Community Infoshop is a public space that promotes independent learning, creative expression, public discourse, and sustainable living in the Buffalo area."

Barnard Library, 3009 Broadway, New York NY 10027, attn: Jenna Freedman; zines@barnard.edu, www.barnard.edu/library/zines/index.htm

"Barnard College collects women's zines, specializing in nonfiction about Third Wave feminism and personal zines by women of color, urban (especially New York City) women, and by women writing about feminist issues. The library prefers to collect two copies of each zine: one for casual use, the other to be preserved." Catalog online.

Durland Alternatives Library, 127 Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell University, Ithica NY 14853; 607-255-6486; alt-lib@cornell.edu; www.alternativeslibrary.org

"We collect progressive political, alternative health, human rights and prison issues, homeschooling, ecology, and more - we try to offer zines that are not available in other places in town. We are also interested in viewpoints not expressed in mainstream media sources and look for information that is getting harder and harder to find."

Freespace Community Center, 16 E. 8th St., Huntington Station NY 11746; 516-616-3151; info@freespace.org; www.lifreespace.org; send donations to: Phil Schappert, 156, Sound Rd., Wading River NY 11792

"Long Island Freespace is a center that provides resources, space, and technical assistance to young artists and activists. It is a nonprofit organization comprised entirely of young people, which seeks to facilitate the growth of art, music, and a progressive positive youth culture. We are attempting to create a zine/book library, which we hope to stock with progressive literature and writings that are out of the mainstream; we are in dire need of books especially. In addition, we are looking to create an independent publishing resource center."

May Day Infoshop, 155 First Ave., New York NY 10003; www.maydaybooks.net; open daily

"(We are) committed to providing the working class with resources that will assist their efforts to understand and transform the world. We distribute a variety of books, periodicals, pamphlets, audio and video tapes, and other educational materials on contemporary political, economic, and social issues through our bookstore and lending library."

Purchase College Zine Library, 735 Anderson Hill Rd. #1333, Purchase NY 10577, attn: Alisa Richter; culturevulture7@aol.com

Rochester Infoshop, 222 Driving Park Ave., Rochester NY 14613

"The Rochester Infoshop is a cross tendency radical anti-capitalist library that hosts everything from anarchy, anarchist-communism, anarcho-syndicalism, primitivism, green anarchy, deep ecology, platformism, situationism, council communism, autonomist marxism, internationalism, international struggles, globalization, existentialism, and periodicals." Seeking donations of good periodicals.

Root Cellar Zine Library, Bard College, PO Box 5000, Annandale-on-Hudson NY 12504; drop-in: basement of McVicker; cs792@bard.edu, dr587@bard.edu; student.bard.edu/clubs/rootcellar

"We have thousands of zines and at one time in the '90s we were the largest zine library on the East Coast. Not catalogued, but organized by theme. Located in the basement of McVicker (behind Stone Row)." Open afternoons/evenings Monday through Friday.

Ohio

Ray and Pat Browne Library For Popular Culture Studies, William T. Jerome Library, 4th Floor Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green OH 43403; 419-372-2450

"We collect zines in the areas of media (especially television), mystery, romance, science fiction, fantasy, horror, Star Trek, diplomacy game zines, popular politics, etc. We tend not to collect more literary ones, especially fiction and poetry. Our Sound Recording Archives (which is separate from the Popular Culture Library) also has a collection of music zines."

Oregon

Cascadia Rising Infoshop, 1540 SE Clinton, Portland OR 97202; 503-232-6003; www.geocities.com/crinfoshop; "hours are erratic due to a lack of volunteer help," open M-Sa.

"We offer a lending library of more than 1000 books. As an activist resource center we store a variety of activist tools, including sign making materials, computers, literature, salvaged paper, flyers for existing campaigns and lots more."

Knight Library - Special Collections, 1501 Kincaid St., Eugene OR 97403-1299, attn: Melissa Anderson; melissaa@uoregon.edu; open M-Sa

"We accept zines that are political, environmental, and reflect personal experience narratives. In particular, we are interested in acquiring zines written in the Northwest and West. Our collection is open to the public, but zines do not circulate outside the library, to ensure the longevity of these materials for the historical record."

Pacific NW College of Art, attn: Zine Collection, 1241 NW Johnson Street, Portland OR 97209

"The Pacific NW College of Art is starting a zine collection in the school library! I'll be sort of taking charge of it while I'm a student there, and I'm trying to obtain zines, which will all become part of this permanent collection. Any format, style, genre, etc., is welcome. I would really love to have mini-comics in the collection as well. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, please contact zines@nicheless.com."

Pennsylvania

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15213; 412-622-3118; www.clpgh.org.

Teen Reading Room contains a variety of zines for public perusal. Contact the library's Teen Department for information on zine donations.

Texas

Austin Zine Library, 300 Allen St., Austin TX 78702; www.geocities.com/theaustinzinelibrary; austinzinelibrary@yahoo.com; drop-in: inside the Rhizome Collective, in the back warehouse, in the back left corner, across from the Food Not Bombs kitchen; open Su, Tu

"The Austin Zine Library is a new organization, to provide zine-lovers and other curious folks a place where they can come and read underground literature they might not be able to find anywhere else. We have about 1,500 zines, and are always looking for more." Seeking volunteers.

Utah

City Library Zine Collection, c/o Brooke Young, Level 2, Salt Lake City Public Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City UT 84111; 801-322-8133; jthomas@slcpl.lib.ut.us; open daily

"The City Library Zine Collection includes about 6,000 zines from around the world. We're actively looking to acquire more titles and are interested in just about every type of zine (unless it includes illegal content - we are taxpayer funded after all.) Email if you'd like to submit your zine. We also have smaller collections in the Teen Department at the Main Library and in each of our five branches."

Virginia

The Flying Brick Library and Reading Room, PO Box 5021, Richmond VA 23220, attn: Greg Wells; 804-644-2544; gregwells36@hotmail.com; drop-in: 506 S. Pine St., Richmond VA 23220, call first

"The Flying Brick Library and Reading Room is a small radical resource library based in the front room of a collectively owned household of anarchists. We ... have a collection that includes 2,000 books available for checkout as well as 1,500 periodicals, 500 zines and pamphlets, comics and file folders covering a wide range of national and local political and social issues. We are always looking for new zines that deal with political, social, and personal issues."

Washington

Evergreen Infoshoppe, The Evergreen State College, Student Activities, CAB 320, Olympia WA 98505; 360-867-5114; evergreeninforshoppe@yahoo.com; hours subject to volunteer availability

"The infoshoppe accepts all zine donations for its library, but especially wants submissions from students, locals, and alumni. ... We aim to spread awareness of campus groups, establish a central community calendar and bulletin board, and help fund individual zine projects."

Olympia Zine Library, 211 4th Ave. E., Olympia WA 98501 (inside Last Word Books); olymedia@mutualaid.org

"After a period of neglect, the Olympia Zine Library has just recently been reorganized, and the next projects are to recruit more volunteers and make a database inventory of the zines. The bulk of the collection is made up of music, punk, political, personal, and riot grrrl zines. We accept all zine donations."

zinelibrary.net, 211 E. 4th Ave., Olympia WA 98501; zinelibrary@riseup.net

Online archive of "anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian publications," by the Olympia Media Project. Zines are scanned and posted as PDFs; organized by categories. Seeking donations of zines, or scan your zine and email them the PDF.

Zine Archives & Publishing Project, c/o Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave., Seattle WA 98122; 206-322-7030; zines@hugohouse.org; www.hugohouse.org/programs/zine.html

"We accept zines of all genres, but would prefer zines done by, for, and about people of color, women, and queer/trans folks; riot grrrl zines; and collage/art zines. ZAPP is a resource center for self publishers and independent artists from all walks of life and includes a library of more than 7,000 zines, comix, chapbooks, mail art pieces, newsletter and other small press and self-published periodicals."

Wisconsin