Zine Thesaurus Collective
The Zine Thesaurus is managed by a volunteer Management Collective, which is responsible for development and revisions, broadening usage of the Thesaurus, ensuring accessibility and usability of the Thesaurus, and ongoing project administration and sustainability. Learn more about the Collective members below! Those of us who have special roles in the collective choose our own title.
There are additional folks who help edit and update the Zine Subject Thesaurus at monthly editathons. Editors are listed below Collective members.
Jesse Cole
Jesse (they/them) is the Technical Services Coordinator at Greenfield Public Library in Greenfield, MA. In addition to cataloging, Jesse spends their time curating and managing GPL's small, but mighty zine collection (https://greenfieldpubliclibrary.org/p/2088/Zines--GPL). Jesse is currently working towards their Master's in Library Science at Simmons University. In their free time they enjoy scrapbooking, reality television, and learning to roller skate.
Violet Fox, Treasurer
Violet Fox (she/her) is a Cataloging & Metadata Librarian at a large academic university in Chicago. Her passions include critical cataloging, zine librarianship, and promoting the mental health of library workers. Find more info at her website, violetbfox.info.
Susan Hallgren
Susan Hallgren (she/her) worked in academic libraries for 20 years and completed her MS in Library and Information Science in 2024. Her interest in zines began in the early 1990s, which led to her involvement with zine libraries, zine workshops, and artists’ books. Her work aims to enhance and manage metadata to improve the discoverability of art related special collections. In her free time, she loves skateboarding, snowboarding, and hanging with her family and her guinea pig.
Bellamy Jacobs
Bellamy Jacobs (he/they) is a faculty librarian at South Seattle College and leads the collection development for a new zine collection there. He also hopes to co-create and teach a zinemaking course with other faculty. His library interests include critical cataloging, queer metadata, information literacy instruction, and AI ethics.
Indica Mattson, Scrivener
Indica Mattson (she/they) graduated with her M.S. in Information from Florida State University in 2022 and currently works as the Rare Materials Cataloger at Cornell University, where her responsibilities include cataloging zines and artist books for Cornell's Human Sexuality Collection. Her professional interests include book history, critical librarianship, and the cataloging of transgressive materials. In her spare time, Indica enjoys hiking, watching movies, and learning new languages.
Kaitlyn Palone
Kaitlyn Palone graduated with her MLIS from the University of Oklahoma in 2016. Shortly after she began her position as a metadata and cataloging librarian at the University of Central Oklahoma. In addition to her cataloging responsibilities, she is also in charge of mending library materials and is coordinator of the campus zine library. Along with her work on the Zine Thesaurus Management Collective she also enjoys her work with CAW (Community Archiving Workshop) that she has been involved with since 2023. When not working, Kaitlyn loves movies, music, and spending time with her family and two cats.
Amanda Stevens, Captain
Amanda Stevens (she/her) is a zine-maker, librarian, book indexer, and taxonomies consultant based in K'jipuktuk (Halifax), Canada. She has been making zines since the 1990s and got involved in zine libraries in 2007 while doing her Master of Library and Information Studies at Dalhousie University. In 2008 Amanda developed the Zine Subject Thesaurus and a catalogue for the Anchor Archive Zine Library and has continued to manage cataloguing at the Anchor Archive and to develop the Zine Thesaurus and broaden its use since. Her work aims to improve access to radical and transformative information, stories, and resources. You can find her zines on Etsy.
Zine Thesaurus Editors