Thank you!!!!

The Zine Committee would like to thank everyone that came out to the 2011 Zine Symposium on Saturday. We had a great crowd for the panel discussion and keynote featuring musician, activist and zine author Kathleen Hanna.

We’d like to give a special round of applause to our panelists Shelton Hull, Adee Roberson, Mark Creegan, Travis Fristoe, Kathleen Hanna and moderator Duncan Barlow.  Their insights into the creative process and personal experiences were very inspiring.

A special thank you goes out to Kathleen Hanna and her team.  We are glad she was able to visit Jacksonville Public Library and we appreciate her willingness to share her experiences and how zines have shaped her activism and career as a musician. It was an excellent and challenging presentation.

Thank you goes out to Clay Doran (Squid Dust) for the wonderful posters.  Will there be a second printing?  Only he will know for sure.

We’d like to thank everyone that worked on the event and contributed to making it a success, without whom the event could not have happened.  Thanks to everyone who spread the word and posted info on blogs, Facebook and Twitter about the event. That was a great help.  An especially big thank you goes to out the Community Relations and Marketing team, Adult Programming and the Conference center staff.  Thanks for everything!

If you would like to seem more programs like this one, send us your feedback or better yet, checkout some zines from the collection.  The library relies on community support and one of the best things you can do is checkout books, CDs, zines, DVDs and other materials in the library.  Patron usage and feedback helps us determine future goals for collection development and programming, so please use the library and enjoy what it has to offer.

JPL has some items available for checkout by the above panelists:

Shelton Hull – Section 8 zine | Ink 19

Travis Fristoe – America? zine and other writings

Kathleen Hanna – Le Tigre albums | Bikini Kill: The Singles

We hope to have video of the event available soon!!

UPDATE: New Zine Symposium Artwork by Squid Dust

**UPDATE: We will be raffling prints of this poster tomorrow at the event but supplies are extremely limited.  Show up early to get your ticket.  Big thanks to Clay Doran / Squid Dust for designing and making the prints.  We will give away a few later today so check back on this blog or like us on FB to keep up to date.

Kathleen Hanna on Zines

 

 

For more information on the Zine Symposium featuring Kathleen Hanna, click here.

Darth Vader Reads Everything Dies v.6 by Box Brown

We set up a table at Art Walk last week and Darth Vader came by to check out the Zine Collection.  It was probably the title that caught his eye, but we think he really enjoyed Everything Dies v.6 by Box Brown.

Paten Locke and Willie Evans Jr live at Jacksonville Public Library!

The Jacksonville Public Library Zine Collection presents Paten Locke and Willie Evans Jr live in the Main Library on July 6th! We’re kicking off International Zine Month right with a combination of independent publishing and independent music! Since before Asamov these two talented performers have been setting the standard for artists coming out of Jacksonville. Touring all over America and Europe, these two are some of the most intriguing live acts you will find. From video manipulation, to record scratching, to the art of MCing, to doing all that at the same time! You can’t find anything better than Paten Locke and Willie Evans Jr! My word on that! Plus it’s free! And we’ll have a bunch of brand new zines available for checkout as well!

We’ll be in what was formerly Shelby’s Café, right near the Laura Street entrance. The Main Library is at the corner of Laura and Duval, across from Hemming Plaza. Event starts promptly at 6:30p.m.

1000 Zines

The Jacksonville Public Library just cataloged its 1000th zine!

In just under two years, we’ve built an impressive collection of zines and we literally couldn’t have done it without you.  We have received boxes and boxes of donations from generous people around Florida and around the country.  Keep it up!  Check out a zine and show your support!

To celebrate this milestone, we are planning a zine release party for the new materials at the July Artwalk.  More details to come.  We will have lots of new stuff to check out that day, so be sure to stop in at the Main Library.

April Zine Release

Hey zine fans,
Here is a list of new items in the Jacksonville Public Library Zine Collection. Check a few out and enjoy a personal moment with good, old fashioned print on paper.

3.05 Metres: A Ten Foot Rule Primer
Agriculture Biotechnology
Axis of Eviil Banquet
Chickeney Vol. 1
Chickeney Vol. 2
Dimanche Vol. 5
Dimanche Vol. 6
Dumpsterland Vol. 11
Edit Edit
Elephant Mess Vol. 26
Greasespot Vol. 4
Juniper Vol.13
Lidspeculum Vil. 1
Practice Apartment
Readers Digress! Vol. 7
Readers Digress! Vol. 9
Readers Digress! Vol. 10
Readers Digress! Vol. 11
Saugus to the Sea
Sixth Minkey Vol. 1
So Nails Vol. 4
Sudden Death Semantics
Take It – It’s My Body
This Ain’t No Anthology… Ten Foot Rule
Wormwood Press

Also, The Zine Collection is closing in on 1000 items, so if you haven’t been downtown to browse the collection in a while, you’ll probably be surprised at how the collection has grown.  We are constantly cataloging new items so be sure to check back regularly.

Mike Watt in Jacksonville

Hey cool cats, you may have heard by now that punk legend Mike Watt will be playing at Jack Rabbits this Thursday.  In case you may have missed some of Watt’s back catalog, JPL has you covered with the below selections. We Jam Econo is a terrific documentary on the Minutemen.  Post-Mersh (3 Volumes) collects much of the Minutemen’s early work.  Double Nickels on the Dime has been heralded as one of the best albums from the 80s.  Ball Hog or Tugboat? is Watt’s first solo album with back up from members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Dinosaur Jr. and Sonic Youth.  D.I.Y or Die is another documentary about zine and music culture and it features interview footage with Mike Watt.  Get busy!

Judas Goat Quarterly Vol. 45 by Grant Schreiber

During Spring 2010, Grant Schreiber was under-unemployed when he heard Uncle Sam’s siren call for US Census workers so he signed up.  As a crew leader, his mission was to lead a team assigned to count every person living in a small area on the northside of Chicago. Luckily for Judas Goat Quarterly readers, Schreiber decided to write down his experiences and share some of the wisdom he picked up on the job. His tales of training, organizing and learning to text make for terrific reading and you’ll cringe along with Schreiber as he tries to whip a group of people into a lean, mean head-counting machine in less than a week. After all counting every man, woman and child in the United States isn’t for the weak of heart, as Schreiber loves to point out. In his own words, Schreiber “served” and he expresses a certain amount of pride in a job done as well as some frustration with the inner workings of the Federal Government. So there you have it, a first hand account of the 2010 Census, and if that’s not enough, check out the book review of R. Crumb’s Genesis. That is another good book you can check out from the library.

Branching Out

Hey friends in Riverside, Willowbranch Library is hosting a party for the 80th anniversary of the branch opening. The Zine Collection will have a small display set up so stop by and check out a few zines.  There will be games, arts, crafts and face painting for the kids.  Celebrate local history in Riverside and support your public library.