Agenda
∙ What’s aZine?
∙ Zines & Reflective Practice
∙ How to Zine
∙ Reflecting Together
3.
IN LIBRARIES!
Zines offerpersonal perspectives
when included in archives, and can
be effective ways to communicate
information and facilitate access
to polarized or hard-to-find
resources.
What’s a
Zine?
ZINES!
Rooted in a do-it-yourself ethos,
zines have historically been used
for communication and
community building for various
subculture groups.
FOR TEACHING!
Learners who create zines as part
of their learning experience may
feel increased personal
investment, better understand
their part in an information
ecosystem, and can better engage
with concepts through
participatory learning (Yang, 2010;
Eller and Plottel, 2022).
WORKSHOP
BENEFITS
Zine making workshops have also been
shown to foster connection and
collaboration between participants and
provide a space supportive of
experimentation and creative thought
(Brown, 2024).
Brown, A. (2024).Zine-making and critical reflection: Portals of shared
discovery. In E. Piazzoli & F. Dalziel, Performative Language Learning with
Refugees and Migrants. Routledge.
Bruce, C. (2002). Information Literacy as a Catalyst for Educational Change: A
Background Paper. White Paper prepared for UNESCO, the U.S. National
Commission on Libraries and Information Science, and the National Forum on
Information Literacy, for use at the Information Literacy Meeting of Experts,
Prague, The Czech Republic.
https://arizona.aws.openrepository.com/handle/10150/106385
Duncombe, S. (1997). Notes from underground: Zines and the politics of
alternative culture. Verso.
Eller, S. L. & Plottel, T. (2022). Soviet Counterculture, Poison Girls, and Glue
Sticks Teaching Information Literacy with Do-It- Yourself Zines. In S. Higgins
& N.-Y. Tran, Embracing Change: Alternatives to Traditional Research Writing
Assignments. Association of College & Research Libraries.
Vong, S. (2016). Reporting or Reconstructing? The Zine as a Medium for
Reflecting on Research Experiences. Communications in Information Literacy,
10(1), 62–80.
Yang, A. (2010). Engaging Participatory Literacy through Science Zines. The
American Biology Teacher, 72(9), 573–577.
Additional
Resources
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW ZINES
CAN BE INCORPORATED INTO
INFORMATION LITERACY AND
REFLECTIVE PRACTICE
