Chicago Underground Library

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The Chicago Underground Library (CUL) is a collection focusing on material produced by small presses or independent publishers in the Chicago area. The collection includes zines, comics, perfect-bound novels, chapbooks, newsletters, art books, magazines and pamphlets, with an emphasis on inclusivity and blurring format and genre lines. CUL was developed by Nell Taylor and Emerson Dameron.

CUL is among a number of organizations formed to house materials which are frequently excluded from libraries, but the CUL collection is defined more by location than by any format or subculture.

The Chicago Underground Library is campaigning to create a network of similar "location-specific" libraries around the world as a co-existing alternative to current library systems.