After a recent trip to Mattoon, Illinois, I came home inspired and made this little zine. It’s part love letter, part field guide—a brief, opinionated tour of places worth knowing, eating at, wandering through, and talking about. My hope is that anyone I know who finds themselves in Mattoon will have this in hand and…
Tag: Librarianship
Costco CURIOUS Zine
In July of 2025, I attended a party at a friends house where we started talking about Costco and I began visualizing this zine. I grew up in a “Walmart community” therefore I’ve always been curious about Costco . We became members in 2022 and in 2024 we became executive members because we bought a…
Moon Fries Zine
I had the chance to spend two class sessions with 35 undergraduates whose final project was to create a social-justice–themed zine on a topic of their choice. To warm them up for the second session, I led a series of quick drawing exercises that culminated in an eight-minute challenge: making a zine about a food…
Plant Spaces Zine
One of my favorite activities is to create and make zines. Then I like to give them away to friends, family, loved ones, and sometimes strangers. This is my latest zine which includes drawings I made about plants. I made this zine on my new Ricoh photocopier.
To Good To Go Zine
To Good To Go is an organization and digital application which helps you rescue food that may be throw out by an establishment at the end of the day. This app is not for everyone. Partly because one doesn’t know what you will get and that can be trying if you have dietary restrictions, like…
Internet Archive Zine
I studied to be an artist and a librarian. For me, when these worlds collide this is what can happen. A HUGE CONGRATS to the Internet Archive for 1 TRILLION pages archived & many thanks for continuing to preserve culture. A special thanks to Louisa Cohen & Drew MacDonald for supporting this amaZINE collaboration. Download…
Library Pros podcast…
On episode 115 of the Library Pros podcast… Want to laugh and learn at the same time? Then this is the episode for you. Megan Lotts, an Art Librarian at Rutgers talks and laughs about so many great things she is doing. She is a Maker, Author, Artist, Librarian and INNOVATOR!! We talk about the…
L&T Chat show…
On Season 5 Episode 9 of the L&T Chat Show (Oct. 30, 2024) with Roger Saunders, “Megan talks to me about how an experience with Lego at a conference in Manchester led to a 4000 mile road trip across America using playful learning to address issues in library services using creative thinking. She goes on…
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