https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/secret-zine-library
"Librarian Devon Tatton has found odd things tucked into books. Scratch & Win
tickets. Cheques. A slice of cheese. “People use just about anything for a
bookmark,” she told me recently.
While weeding old travel books from the Greater Victoria Public Library’s
central branch collection in August, she discovered something truly unexpected
hiding in the 1984 book
Handpicked Tours of North America: A Motorist’s Guide
to Scenic Routes and Fascinating Places in Canada and the USA.
Pulling the book off the shelf, she hadn’t noticed that it was missing a
barcode or that it was lighter than one might have expected for a hardcover of
its size. She did, however, notice a couple of zines tumbling to the floor. She
remembers thinking,
bookmarks—or that someone might have slipped the
photocopied booklets of self-published art and writing between the shelved
books.
Without pondering their origin further, she placed
Handpicked Tours on her
cart and wheeled it back to her desk to check it for outdated information. When
she finally opened it, she was astonished: a library within the library
revealed itself."
Via Muse, who wrote "This is the most awesome zine library EVER! I think I will
start one in Melbourne!"
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
