Zines in the Open

A zine is a physical, printed, folded pamphlet. This creative work is a zine series collaboratively written by a library science professor, a librarian, and a library science student to share ideas around decolonizing pedagogies. The final zine series (includes 5 numbered zines, with No. 1 as both the first and last issue: No. 2 Mo’s Mutual Aid, No. 3 Community of Inquiry, No. 4 Everyone’s So Creative, No. 5 Ethics of Care in Libraries, No. 1 Decolonizing Learning is Not a Metaphor. No. 1 Decolonizing Pedagogy is Not a Metaphor is an introduction to the foundations of decolonized learning. It provides a broad overview and a few examples. No. 2 Mo’s Mutual Aid is a campus-specific resource guide for support services to address food insecurity, mental and physical health, transportation, and other student services. It was inspired by a campus book group on mutual aid, and its production follows the tenets of mutual aid as discussed in Let This Radicalize You (Hayes & Kaba, 2023) that the group read. No. 3 Community of Inquiry (COI) presents the COI model (Garrison et al., 2000) as a framework for engaging students in critical discourse. This zine includes 5 teaching activities that LIS professors can use in online or face-to-face classes to engage students in these conversations. No. 4 Everyone’s So Creative is a very introductory explanation of Creative Commons licensing for open educational practices, such as a student zine assignment or an open syllabus. No. 5 Ethics of Care in Libraries deconstructs how librarians operate with community as a core value. The zine series is available here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1H9F1wP6UgyOm4ye01cD2nEaTVSMDOH0P.