Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0247 - Hampshire College Zine Collection: practicum and research workshop

The Hampshire College Zine Collection (HCZC) is a non-circulating library of over 1,000 zines. It was created by student zinemakers in the 1990s. In the late 2000s, the Zine Collective, a student group, reorganized and enlarged the collection, moving it to the Harold F. Johnson Library. Now, in the 2020s, the collection has been recategorized and expanded by a new generation of students, librarians, archivists, and professors. In this practicum and research workshop, students will study the politics and ethics of zine librarianship, while learning practical (if unconventional) skills of zine cataloging. Together, we will participate in an ongoing audit of the HCZC and make recommendations for its ongoing growth and stewardship. Additionally, each student will conduct an individual exploratory research study in the collection, aided by the lenses of critical archives and librarianship studies. The end product of this research will be a collaborative zine of the students' design. This course is best suited to Division I and early Division II students.

Art and Politics Lab/Materials fee:$10 Students should expect to spend 6-8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time