WELCOME TO THE SHERWOOD FOREST ZINE LIBRARY!
Started in October of 2012, the Sherwood Forest Zine Library is a lending library of over 3000 zines in central Austin. We are open every other Saturday from 2-6PM unless otherwise noted. Our collection spans decades, countries, and topics and new zines are catalogued every week! Membership is free.
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In addition to the physical library, we run a Virtual Zine Library with hundreds of zines ready to download for free!
NEXT SHIFT: April 19th, 2025 - 2-6P
HOURS: We try to be open every other Saturday, but we are a volunteer project, so please see our Hours & Events page for the most up to date shift schedule!
LOCATED: 5215 Joe Sayers Ave., Unit A, Austin, TX
THE BIG WINTER VIRTUAL
ZINE LIBRARY UPDATE IS HERE!
Our Virtual Zine Library has hundreds of free downloadable zines and links to online zines. Our goal is to host and provide access to information, stories, and voices that are often buried in the mainstream media.
Our collection ranges from art, poetry, and fiction to political theory, social issues, and historical discussion, and everything in between!
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We update the Virtual Library a few times a year.
Please let us know if you find any errors/missing or broken links/pdfs.
SUBMIT YOUR ZINES!
Our Virtual Zine Library is open to all your zines from activist guides, political history, and theory, to cookbooks, sketchbooks, DIY guides, and more! Interested in having your zine in our collection? Please send us an email including either a link to your free online readable zine or a PDF (preferred) attached in the email. If you have a description of your zine, that helps too! Email us: sherwoodzinelibrary@gmail.com
We are a Critics' Pick in this year's Austin Chronicle Best of Austin Awards!
NEXT ZINE EVENT: April 5th, 11A-1P
NEW SPACE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR 2025:
Austin Zine Fiends will now be held at Future Front!
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From AUSTIN ZINE FRIENDS, the organizing group behind the Lone Star Zine Fest, comes a monthly zinester meetup called Zine Fiends! The first Saturday of every month, Zine Fiends meets at Recycled Reads to make zines, chat zines, and meet other zinesters! Join us this Saturday, from 11a-1p, at Future Front for some zinemaking fun!
Checked out zines you need to return?
We have a dropbox at our front door for zine drop off anytime, day or night, no contact!
You can also donated physical zines to the library here as well.