Selected publications

Street Librarian column in Utne magazine (March/April 2001�November/December 2006).

Dorchester Dog Hip Press (travelogues, poetry chapbooks, incendiary tracts)

The late MSRRT Newsletter. One hundred issues. No more.

"Reconnecting with Mother Earth: 13 ways to help heal the land", Utne Reader, May/June 2008.

"Collecting the Wretched Refuse" Lifting a Lamp to Zines, Military Newspapers, and Wisconsinalia" (homage to James P. Danky, Library Trends, Winter 2008)

"Tread lightly and carry a big bag of batteries: Rethinking technology in the wilderness," Utne Reader, May/June 2007.

"Messages from above: Why the clouds are worth watching," Utne Reader, January/February 2007.

"Gone But Not Forgotten: Ten Defunct Periodicals." Ladies & Gentlemen #2.

"Kinds of birds." Minneapolis Observer Quarterly, Spring 2006.

"Elemental art." Utne, May/June 2006.

"The Tao of Sparrow: A poet, his bathtub, and waking up twice," Utne, March/April 2006.

"Reading matters: Luminous books in the digital age," Utne, November/December 2005.

"Cold Comfort." The Minneapolis Observer, August 2005. Excerpted from On Ice: In Manitoba (Dorchester Dog Hip Press)

"Knowledge for sale: Are America's public libraries on the verge of losing their way?" Utne, July/August 2005.

"Up from underground: Comic book artists to watch out for." Utne, January/February 2005.

"Music mixmasters: Mash-ups go mainstream." Utne, September/October 2004.

"Emma Goldman, Thoreau, and anarchists." Thoreau Society Bulletin, Summer 2004. (Reprinted in Social Anarchism #39.)

"Literary labels: Independent record labels turn to publishing books." Utne, May/June 2004.

"Folk music�s new genre benders: The new �free folk� movement unleashes a storm of strange and wonderful new sounds." Utne, March/April 2004.

"Used lipstick, cat whiskers, and masterpieces from Mexico's streets." IndieCulture 2004. [Focus: Princeton Architectural Press.]

"Zines' second coming." IndieCulture 2004.

co-author, "Riot mamas." Utne, November/December 2003. [Zines by mothers.]

"Libraries to the people, redux." In Revolting Librarians Redux, edited by Katia Roberto and Jessamyn West (McFarland, 2003).

"Art on the move." Utne Arts Extra 2003. [Mobile art venues.]

"Phoebe Gloeckner: Portrait of the artist as a young cartoonist." Utne Arts Extra 2003.

"John Porcellino: Zen zinester." Utne Arts Extra 2003.

"Revolution at the reference desk: a new generation of librarians see information as a social cause" (Utne, November/December 2002)

"Documentaries can dance: The passionate films of Les Blank" (Utne Reader, July/August 2002)

"Sustainable frugality." Clamor, May/June 2002.

"Mr. Reader." Words That Soak Up Life: A Reading Compilation Zine (Celia Perez, 2527 N. Calfornia Ave., 1-S, Chicago, IL 60647; $3-5).

"Dear Abbey: Thank you Note to a desert philosopher" (Utne Reader, November/December 2001)

"The Revolution will be photocopied: A trip to the Underground Publishing Conference ..." (Utne Reader, September/October 2001)

"Anarchism 101: A beginner's guide to the most misunderstood political movement in history" (Utne Reader, May/June 2001)

"Soul stirrers: Singer Al Green and poet Rainer Maria Rilke share a sense of the sublime" (Utne Reader, March/April 2001)

"Going postal: Mail art brings a whole world of creative expression to your door" (Utne Reader, September/October 2000)

"Art behind the lines: How a comic book can reveal the truth of war" (Utne Reader, May/June 2000)

"Words on the street: Homeless people's newspapers" (First published August 1999 in American Libraries)

"Media junkie review" (Utne Reader, November/December 1998); Utne-edited version of:

"Taking libraries to the street: Infoshops and alternative reading rooms" (American Libraries, May 1998); revised web edition: Street libraries: Infoshops & alternative reading rooms

"Zines" (Magazines for Libraries, 9th ed., 1997)

"Zine books: 'hip' voices or subterranean exegesis?" (Counterpoise, July 1997)

How to do a zine. By Karen Eliot (pseudonym). Minnetonka, MN: Dorchester Dog Hip Press, 1997.

A zine-ography. 4th ed. (C. Dodge, July 1996). Twenty-four page annotated bibliography of books, articles, and other material about zines. (Earlier editions: 1994, 1995, January 1996)

"Zines: the underground press for the '90s" (Minnesota's Journal of Law & Politics, September 1995)

"Pushing the boundaries: zines and libraries" (Wilson Library Bulletin, May 1995)

co-editor, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sandy Berman (McFarland, 1995)

co-author, "Mail art, librarians, and social networking" (in Chuck Welch's Eternal network: a mail art anthology, University of Calgary Press, 1995)

"Multiethnic multimedia catalog sources" (MultiCultural Review, June 1994)

"Alternative sex: some zines, comics, books, and sources" (Collection Building, v.13 #1)

"Green zines: a list of alternative environmental periodicals" (Green Library Journal, Fall 1992)

co-editor, Confronting Columbus: an anthology (McFarland, 1992)

"The Columbus Quincentennial: who's celebrating?" (Reference Services Review v.20 #3)

"People of Color: a periodical list" (Rethinking Schools, January/February 1992)

"Chris Dodge's Public Ear" (Artpaper column, 1990-91)

"The activist librarians" (Artpaper, December 1989)

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