Wow, they finally realize that they can't pay a person 10 hours a week to manage an organization.

I visited a traveling zine library in an airstream trailer once -- it was awesome. They traveled with the library around the U.S. & Canada for a few years. It was called Mobillivre. Maybe something like that would be an option for ZAPP?

I'm wondering why this collection couldn't find a home at, say, UW Libraries? They have numerous special collections that a zine collection like this would complement nicely, and there is an LGBT-resources librarian on staff already. Has anyone looked into this? If I ran the UW Libraries I would LOVE to have this collection.

Does VERA have space for a zine library? That seems like a logical place for this collection.
Gary Greaves. Love him, miss him.

Do people view them more as irreplacable museum pieces or as things they want people to read and enjoy? I think I fall into the latter camp -- we should be reading and enjoying them, and the SPL seems like a good organization to facilitate that.

I came into contact with the ZAPP in 2007, when the Hugo House was attempting to incorporate the project into a traditional archive. The spirit of ZAPP is a bit more radical than HH, and I think that the free publishing help, the 3rd space, and the volunteers that run it are what really breathe life into the ZAPP and make it something unique. If you stuff the ZAPP into UW Libraries or SPL, you're going to run into the same problems that the HH did. A cooperative owned or alliance model seems like the best way to run this organization.

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@8 I think you're missing the point of printed zines.

I sincerely hope someone finds ZAPP a space, because there are plenty of treasures to be appreciated there. My favorite has to be the book-length, spiral-bound chronicle of a man's forays into the deep jungle in Southeast Asia after the death of his best friend. His notes are fucking crazy...everything from how to catch shrimp and survive on oatmeal for a week to three-hour-long solo yoga sessions. He was on some serious spiritual journey shit. Also, he mailed his oversized zine to ZAPP unsolicited solely because of its reputation, which is a great argument in favor of its preservation. Where else will all the world's strange lost souls send their manifestos and journals? Where else can you find a zine by Australian youths dedicated to exploring underground tunnels in Perth? An interview with the Faction transcribed in sketchy handwriting about getting in a fight with some kids at their show? Etc, etc, etc...

Hi, I work with the Internet Archive in San Francisco. We could provide a permanent home for the collection, but would not be as physically accessible as you may want. What we could do is help get it digitized. This may not be what you want, but it could be really fun.

-brewster
brewster@archive.org

Hi, I work with the Internet Archive in San Francisco. We could provide a permanent home for the collection, but would not be as physically accessible as you may want. What we could do is help get it digitized. This may not be what you want, but it could be really fun.

-brewster
brewster@archive.org

What assurance can you give that your archive will last more than 20 or 30 years, given the fragility of both magnetic and optical storage media?

@12 They aren't going to be on CDs or DVDs. They would be on servers like just about everything else.

However, it is weird that a transition to somewhere in Seattle our outlaying areas can't be found for ZAPP.

Hard drives are magnetic. They have an expected life of 20 to 30 years.

p.s.: And that assumes careful storage.