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The latest Library Journal zine reviews column, Teach a Zine Librarian To Fish: Zine Distro Reviews is up. Thanks to Anastasia, Jerianne, Kelly, and Kelsey for helping out. This marks the first column where I wrote a review myself instead of just editing.

Thanks and congrats are due my zines bestie Celia Perez for contributing the latest Library Journal zine reviews column on Zines by People of Color.

The latest Library Journal reviews column is up. In it, Jeremy Brett, Katie Haegele, Lacey Prpic Hedtke, LP Smith, and Julie Turley review zines by Mike Baker, Jenna Brager, Davida Gypsy Breier, William Patrick Tandy, J.B. Winter, and Sugene Yang-Kelly. I throw in a little zine etiquette for good measure.

I wrote a four part article for Library Journal's Academic Newswire. The introduction and first part came out today. In the series, I interview several librarians who have been working in librarianship for 20+ years about the present and future of academic libraries.

Because I was a little busy and stressed when the latest Library Journal zine reviews column came out on May 7, I didn't get around to mentioning it. The May 2009 column, contributed by Jerianne Thompson, Zines from a Tennessee Public Library: Or, Stop Being a Wuss and Start a Collection Already! reviews zines held at the Linebaugh Public Library in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. In choosing the theme for this issue, I wanted to show that zines aren't just for Yankee liberals, that they can and do serve the public in all types of libraries and geographic locations.

In case you didn't know, Jerianne is Wonder Woman.

And here's why...

Check out our first online only zine reviews column in Library Journal. This column is dedicated to long-running serial zines. Included are Brainscan, Doris, The East Village Inky, Fish with Legs, and Ker-bloom!

I got the disappointing news that due to budget cuts and whatever all is going on at Library Journal since Reed Elsevier decided not to sell the magazine, the Zine Reviews column will be online only, beginning in 2009.

The latest Library Journal zine review column is out. It features reviews of Guerrilla Greywater Girls's Guide to Water, We'll Never Have Paris, Miranda, The Assassin and the Whiner, and a No Better Voice/Truckface split.

The second Library Journal zine reviews column is up. In it Miriam DesHarnais of the Baltimore County Public Library Zine Collection reviews comics zines, aka "mini-comics" or "minicomics."

The first Library Journal zine reviews column is out!!!

The print version has a cover image of Sugar Needle. The online links to a couple of the zines' websites. Other than that I think the online is comparable content-wise.