Zines and the Zinester Librarian

From today's New York Times a profile of Zinester Jenna Freedman, her own zine 'Lower East Side Librarian' and her scholarly online catalog of zines based at the Barnard College Library.

Her online catalog starts off with a definition: "ZINES ARE ... short for magazine or fanzine, zines are self-publications, motivated by a desire for self-expression, not for profit.