compiled by Garth Spencer
sources: Murray Moore, Randy Reichardt, and Ahrvid Engholm
From “Across the Fandomension" website, last updated March 18, 2026
NOTE: I am always looking for corrections, additions and updates; if you spot errors and omissions below, please contact me at [email protected] so that I can update this page. – G.S.
From time to time fans have acquired a library of hardcopy fanzines and books, or other memorabilia, some of which deserve to be stored instead of dumped on a trash heap. Written records especially may be invaluable for historical research, or for preserving the early works of writers. Any fans planning to donate their libraries may wish to examine the following possible repositories.
From time to time fans have acquired a library of hardcopy fanzines and books, or other memorabilia, some of which deserve to be stored instead of dumped on a trash heap. Written records especially may be invaluable for historical research, or for preserving the early works of writers. Any fans planning to donate their libraries may wish to examine the following possible repositories.
Anchor Archive Zine Library; P.O. Box 33129, Halifax, NS B3L 4T6; email [email protected]; over 5000 zines on all different topics, including a lot of zines made in Halifax and the Maritimes. A lot of our collection has been entered in our searchable online catalogue. You can also browse zines by categories or by subjects at https://anchorarchive.org. Archive of Our Own; (hosts Online Archives) ?A fan-created, fan-run, nonprofit, non-commercial archive for transformative fan works, like fanfiction, fanart, fan videos, and podfic."; a project of the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), which is committed to fan privacy. For more information about how you can support the OTW, please see the OTW Website at https://archiveofourown.org
Arrow Archive; Youth Zine Library, 35 Florence St., Hamilton, ON L8R 1W5, or University of Guelph Campus University Center Room 203, Arrow Archive Box 183 Guelph, Ontario N1H 6J6; email [email protected], or [email protected]. The Hamilton Youth Zine Library is looking for zines for their collection. (Can email PDF zines to them for printing) We're looking to start a zine library for youth in downtown Hamilton, Ontario and we need your help! We have a fair amount of zines already, but we're looking to broaden our selection, especially with zines that would be relevant and interesting to the people who will be using the library. The library will be hosted by the NGen Youth Centre, a community centre for people between the ages of 13 and 24 that is home to a diverse array of events, projects, and programming.
Austin Fanzine Project; University of Texas, Austin, TX; email [email protected]; Independent library and archive. Catalog of holdings should be available, as well as information on where and when you can visit the collection. ?The Austin Fanzine Project started as a relatively straightforward digitization and transcription project intended to improve access to the documents of a recently-historical subculture ? the Austin, Texas underground music scene of the 1990s." (per University of Texas Libraries Web page, "Notable Zine Collections": https://guides.lib.utexas.edu/c.php?g=576544&p=3977261)
Austin Public Libraries; Faulk Central Branch (Magazines and Newspapers), or Sherwood Forest Zine Library Austin, TX; Housed with the Magazines and Newspapers section of the Faulk Central Branch. Focus is on local Austin or Texas zines ; Sherwood Forest Zine Library - Austin ; Independent media library focusing on zines and DIY culture. Membership is free and members are allowed to check out zines or hang out during library hours to browse through the collection, read, or work on their own zines. (per University of Texas Libraries Web page, ?Notable Zine Collections": https://guides.lib.utexas.edu/c.php?g=576544&p=3977261, as above)
Barnard College Library - New York City: Collection of zines written by women (cis- and transgender) with an emphasis on zines by women of color. Zines on feminism and femme identity by people of all genders. The zines are personal and political publications on activism, anarchism, body image, third wave feminism, gender, parenting, queer community, riot grrrl, sexual assault, trans experience, and other topics. See https://library.barnard.edu/
Browne Popular Culture Library; Bowling Green State University; (Kentucky); Has a large collection of fanzines devoted to popular music and a nice library guide listing many different resources. See https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl.html The Bug-Eyed Monsters Swedish-language website, by Tomas Cronholom, "has made some scans of old Swedish fanzines and fandom stuff ... It includes (from 1950s) Union SF, Super SF, Urvoat, Wr?vel, SF-Fronten; also material about Stockon 2 1958; then the fandom facts/history collections Skandifandom 1 and 2 (1960s); Fanzine Index for Scandinavia (covering 1954-1973 - there was also the very first Swedish fanzine from 1952, but rune forsgren didn't know about it); the Mats D Linder's famous Summa (1970s)...hm, getting too much too list but single issues of newer fanzines follows and pictures from more recent conventions." (Ahrvid Engholm, Feb. 2026) (See https://bugeyedmonsters.wordpress.com/fandom/)
Calgary Zine Library: a library on 223 12th Avenue SW in Calgary, AB. See https://heylibraries.ca/0405485/Calgary_Zine_Library
Duke University Libraries; Duke University, Durham, NC; Collection of zines created by women, girls, and women-identified people, begun by Sarah Dyer, with over 1,000 zines. Dyer collected zines for her Action Girl Newsletter, a networking publication for women?s comics and zines. The collection has expanded to over 4,000 zines, with a majority dating from 1990-2005. Around 2,600 of these are recorded in this searchable database. See https://library.duke.edu/
Enterprising Women; Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia; Great website listing resources for making your own zine, books and articles about zines, important zine collections and so forth. Search https://librarysearch.temple.edu for "Archival Collections"
George A. Smathers Library, University of Florida ? Gainesville. FL: Rare Collection of zines of Cuban social and political issues (Ernesto Chavez Collection). See https://uflib.ufl.edu/ for more information.
Minneapolis Community & Technical College - Minneapolis, MN: Collection includes alternative press, including self-published zines from around the world to support the interests of a nontraditional community. See https://uflib.ufl.edu/
New York Public Library - New York City: Housed in the DeWitt Wallace Periodical Room at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building with current periodicals and requested in Room 100. Search by title or these subjects: zines, fanzines, underground press and little magazines. The site lists some of the titles in the Collection. See https://borrow.nypl.org/
Ontario College of Art & Design ? Toronto, ON: The OCAD U Zine Library is an ever-growing collection of self-published and handmade publications located in the Learning Zone at OCAD University. The collection was created to inspire, educate and entertain, to encourage collaboration between OCAD U students and to open up the world of zines for readers and creators everywhere! See https://www.ocadu.ca/ and search for "zine collections."
Organization for Transformative Works; University of Iowa; "The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) is a nonprofit organization established by fans to serve the interests of fans by providing access to and preserving the history of fan works and fan culture in its myriad forms. We believe that fan works are transformative and that transformative works are legitimate." See also Facebook. See https://www.transformativeworks.org
Papercut Zine - Somerville, MA: Lending library in all zine genres. Run by volunteer librarians. Hosts zine making events and zine release parties. See https://www.papercutzinelibrary.com/
The Scandinavian SF Association (Swedish-language): “(SFSF) has many of their SF-Forum available as PDFs + a register of contents of ALL issues. ... [Links include] #1 from 1960. For other recent issues, click on the cover [illo] to download ("<- Klicka p?omslaget f? att h?ta!"), which includes #117-145." See https://esseffesseff.wordpress.com/sf-forum/. (Ahrvid Engholm, Feb. 2026)
Schlesinger Library, Harvard University - Cambridge, MA: Strong collection of feminist zines in a library that is dedicated to the history of women in America. Content varies, but many focus on political discussions and contemporary feminist struggles. See https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/collections
Sheridan College Library, Oakville, ON – members can view special collections at https://www.sheridancollege.ca/student-life/student-services/library-services
Sherwood Forest Zine Library - Austin, TX: Independent media library focusing on zines and DIY culture. Membership is free and members are allowed to check out zines or hang out during library hours to browse through the collection, read, or work on their own zines. See https://www.sherwoodforestzinelibrary.org/
Simmons College Library - Boston, MA: Nice library guide to zine resources. A collection of social justice zines, among others. See https://www.simmons.edu/library
Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; emphasis on zines in SW US ? see Cushing Library Fanzine Collection. Susan Frank Klingon/Star Trek Collection. Zines created by Texans, Southwesterners or other Southerners and/or concern Texas, the Southwest and the South; zines created by minorities across Texas, the Southwest or the South; zines created by TAMU students or former students; and concerned with printing and/or designed as print art objects. (per University of Texas Libraries Web page, "Notable Zine Collections": See https://guides.lib.utexas.edu/c.php?g=576544&p=3977261)
Toronto Zine Library, Toronto, Ontario; The Toronto Zine Library is run by a collective of zine readers, zine makers and librarians who are looking to make zines more accessible in Toronto. We believe that zines are still an important medium of communication, and that they should be cherished, protected, and promoted. See https://www.torontozinelibrary.org/ University of Alberta Library (UAL); University of Alberta; western Canadian zines; system includes Chester Cuthbert's SF & F collection and a "collection of Western Canadian zines, which exists in boxes in the UAL's offsite storage facility." (Per Randy Reichardt, email, June 23, 2023) See https://www.library.ualberta.ca/
University of California Riverside Fanzine Collection - University of California Riverside, California. See https://library.ucr.edu/collections/fanzines-collection
University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections includes Science Fiction and Popular Culture Collections. The Curator is Peter Balestrieri, at email [email protected], tel. 319-335-5922. (Giving him a list of your fanzines is a step toward preserving them; Murray Moore?s experience was that if he wanted some or all of them, the Curator would then ask for their weight, and issue a postage-paid label for a box for UPS to pick up.) See https://www.lib.uiowa.edu/sc/
XPACE ? Toronto, ON: Xpace Cultural Centre is a not-for-profit artist-run centre dedicated to providing emerging and student artists, designers, curators and writers with opportunities to showcase their work. See https://www.xpace.info/
Zine and Amateur Press Collections ' University of Iowa: Curator is Peter Balestrieri, at email [email protected], tel. 319-335-5922. The Special Collections at the University of Iowa is making a concerted effort to collect zines in all formats in order to preserve these materials and make them accessible to wider popular and research audiences. Zines are windows that provide glimpses into fascinating and often-under documented social worlds, worlds that we believe deserve to have their voices rescued from obscurity. University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections includes Science Fiction and Popular Culture Collections. The. (Giving Curator Balestrieri a list of your fanzines is a step toward preserving them; Murray Moore's experience was that if he wanted some or all of them, the Curator would then ask for their weight, and issue a postage-paid label for a box for UPS to pick up.) (Murray Moore, July 23, 2021)
Zine Archive and Publishing Project - Hugo House Seattle; Founded in 1996 as part of Hugo House, a non-profit community writing center in Seattle, this is a Zine library with a growing archive of over 30,000 self-published material from around the world. See https://www.spl.org/books-and-media/unique-collections/zine-collection
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