Zine cataloging at the State Library of Victoria, Australia by John Stevens, Access & Information Division Librarian Cataloging Zine Collections in Libraries and Infoshops American Library Association Annual Conference New Orleans, Louisiana 2011 Library image taken by Muhammad Adib 201 Creative Commons - AttributionNoncommercial

Passive zine collection ● Accumulated over time via Legal Deposit ● Fully catalogued as conventional monographs and serials ● Allocated into perceived relevant collections ● eg: Arts, Australian History & Literature, Rare Books, etc ● Though all titles are unbrowsable and many don't have 'zines' or 'fanzines' in their LCSH listing, so thus go unused most of the time

State Library of Victoria Rare Printed Zine Collection 1999-

Intentional zine collection ● Started as a joint effort between the Arts and Rare Printed Teams to preserve what was seen then to be a dying medium ● Primarily accumulated from an underground bookstore (Polyester), then also from a zine- specific outlet (Sticky) from 2006 onwards ● Zine Collection volunteer started also in 2006 ● Only simple descriptive lists used at first

Present cataloging practice ● Spreadsheet cataloging project started 2009 ● Basic categorisation and description only ● Suppressed fields used for information known, though not found on the zine ● All titles processed as monographs ● Records uploaded monthly ● All cataloging still done entirely by one volunteer