The Northwest Vista Library has a zine collection that is in progress! See the Zine Donation FAQs below for more information or contact Rose Rodriguez for further information.
Donate your zines!
We encourage everyone - especially members of the San Antonio community - to consider donating their zines to the NVC Zine Library collection. This includes zines that you have created, as well as zines created by others from your own collection.
Statement of Consent
Before submitting any zines, please consider the following information:
Anyone inside the library can browse and read the zines in our collection. The zines can be checked out to anyone with borrowing privileges. We may also photograph the cover material for browsing aids and promotion. The NVC Zine Library recognizes the sometimes personal nature of zine creation and distribution. We respect the creator/publisher's potential concerns about access to their work. Therefore, we ask you to consider who we are, how we share information about our zines, and how we provide access to our zines. We ask that you acknowledge your consent when submitting your work to the NVC Zine Library.
Zines should be predominately hand-crafted and geared toward adults, though they may additionally be of interest to teens. We do not collect zines for children. Our collection is mostly in English, but we’re open to other languages, especially Spanish. They can be zines that you personally created or zines made by other people.
Content of the collection includes, but is not limited to, these topics and themes:
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Activism |
Arts |
Careers |
Community |
Comics |
Disabilities
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DIY/How to
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Feminism |
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Film |
Food/Cooking |
Gender |
Health |
History |
Hobbies |
Homelessness |
Humor |
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LGBTQIA+ |
Literature/ Poetry |
Mental Health |
Movements |
Music |
Parenting |
Perzines |
Policitics
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San Antonio |
Self Defense |
Society
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Sustainability |
Texas |
Travel |
Veterans |
Zines |
If you are unsure whether your zine would be a good fit for our collection, please contact us with details before donating.