Be a GZL Volunteer!
Glasgow Zine Library is looking for new volunteers to add to our team. If you’re interested in zines, archives, or community arts spaces/events, this is the role for you! Our volunteers help staff the library by making visitors feel at home, telling them about events, and keeping the zine collection tidy and looking it's best.
There's no fixed commitment for how long or how frequently you must commit to volunteering. You will receive a full induction, and reasonable travel expenses will be covered.
Currently available volunteer roles:
LIBRARY: Being a Library Volunteer means being in the library during our public opening hours (Fridays, Saturdays and every third Wednesday evening). Shifts are usually 3 hours long. It is a public-facing role, you will be expected to interact with members of the public.
Inducations take place quarterley, with the next ones due in January 2025. If you fill out this form we will be in contact about 3 weeks before the inductions take place to invite you to one!
ARCHIVE: Being an Archive Volunteer means you will be working hands-on with our collection of zines, helping to catalogue, digitise, and organise the material in our archive. This means you’ll be entering information about, or making digital scans of, our zines into our online public database so that visitors and creators can easily find information about them.
Digitising takes place on Tuesdays 12-2 and 2-4, and cataloguing takes place Wednesdays and Thursdays from 1-4pm. We will be in touch via email to arrange an induction.
