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| Indie Press Projects >> Papercut Zine Library |
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Run as a collective, the Papercut Zine Library opened with 600 zines in May 2005 and now has just shy of 6000 zines in it's lending library. 'I started this project in 2004 when it was 600 zines on my floor', she says, 'Boston had a lot of zines and no place to put them all. The community that has sprung up around the library makes all the work worthwhile.' The library lives at 45 Mt. Auburn St in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mothra, on the space, 'The location kinda fell into our laps. A friend of ours who was running a space at the time offered a room to us. He no longer runs the space, but there we remain.' |
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Membership is free and the library itself survives on volunteers and donations. The collective that runs the library is open to anyone who attends the meetings on a regular basis and helps out with the library. 'The core group has grown and gotten a bit more diversified', says Mothra on changes over time, 'but other than that, it has stayed relatively the same.' 'The biggest challenges to running the library has been keeping steady hours and getting people to return their zines,' says Mothra. 'We've had some space issues, but those get cleared up pretty easily. Right now, we've got some zines that have been out since last summer and its a pretty big bummer, and its good that late zines are our biggest annoyance right now.' |
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The library is a place to find zines (of course), and also to work on your own projects, to take part in discussions, learn from others and try new things. Working on your zine in the library is very laid back, 'right now, we don't have a set space for people to work', she explains, 'you can kinda just work anywhere. It's a large building and if there's not meetings going on, its cool to do any sort of work there. We have a long armed stapler, a big box of scraps an magazines and we're right down the street from Staples/Kinkos/etc.' In the midst of planning a workshop for the local public library, 'Right now we're working to put together a zine making workshop for a public library program. We've been talking with librarians from the Belmont Public Library about doing a summer zine making workshop for young adults.' Other plans for the future, 'we're just hoping to get more friendly with the big public libraries in the area, put on more independent media workshops and help keep the library a comfortable and inspiring place to hang out at.' |
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Mothra's Playlist
1. Reverend Glasseye - Sins of Portsmouth 2. Old Time Relijun - Tigers in the Temple 3. Eels - Trouble with Dreams 4. Peaches - Lovertits 5. Black Flag - Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie Papercut Zine Library |