About Shelf Publishing

We are a nomadic bibliotek organized by a group of artists and makers from Göteborg.

Our SHELF consists of self-published ‘printed’ goods. 

Types of publications found on our SHELF

**** Independently published

**** Small edition

**** Artists books

**** Zines

**** Pamphlets 

**** Ephemera

SHELF Publishing travels by request, existing as a community-run library and a shop.

Our shop promotes the work of publishers by using the SHELF structure to bring their work to different audiences.

We believe in the power of holding space collectively for those who print, fold, collate, and bind publications. 

We encourage curating and reorganizing the existing collection; whenever the SHELF is in a space, it will be slightly different. 

HOW IT WORKS

Publications in the library are donated.

Publications in the shop are dropped off by publishers wherever the SHELF is present at a venue.

Publishers will be swished directly; we will not be handling payments.

We run on a trust system and can not be held accountable for stolen items.

Publishers are allowed to submit a total of three copies to the shop [of the same publication], and we ask for a donation of a fourth copy to the bibliotek.

The SHELF is bookable by anyone outside of the circle of the organizing members.

Pictures: Sjutton Gubbar