Fans of D.C.’s legendary punk music scene have cause to celebrate this weekend, as the D.C. Public Library marks the 5th anniversary of its punk archive.

The special collection documents the growth of the punk movement in Washington and its suburbs, beginning in 1976. That’s the year The Slickee Boys, a local band, put out their first EP, Hot and Cool. It’s now considered the first local punk record.

At the time, WGTB Georgetown, the university’s student-run radio station, was the only local station playing punk music.

The collection now includes everything from cassette tapes to concert posters. Punk musicians donated their record collections, and historians sent in their research files and zine collections.

“We’re documenting the past and present,” said Michele Casto, a librarian and co-founder of the punk archive. “It’s a really rich source for researchers.”

The archive project started in October 2014 as a way to broaden the library’s punk collections, but it soon expanded to include programming, including punk shows (seemingly the least library-friendly event ever).

The archivists started hosted punk concerts in the basement of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, the central branch. “The program rooms had no windows—very dark, very weird. A horribly place for a [library] program but a perfect place for a punk show,” Casto reminisced.

The library will host a five-year anniversary celebration on Saturday from 2:30 to 5 p.m. at the Georgetown Neighborhood Library’s Peabody Room, the archive’s temporary home while the MLK Library is under construction.

Archivists will be on hand to discuss items from the collection, including rare concert footage, and discuss how the collections have been used by researchers. Outside, photos by Antonia Tricarico of the punk scene between 1997 and 2017 will be on display.

In classic punk fashion, there will be a do-it-yourself merch table where visitors can stencil their own posters, an homage to the DIY concert poster culture that once thrived in the area. You can also stencil and spray-paint your own t-shirts or gear.

And of course, there will be music. Les the DJ will perform at 2:30 p.m., followed by Coriky, a new band made up of D.C. punk mainstays: Ian Mackaye, Joe Lally and Amy Farina.

The D.C. Public Library also has a go-go archive, and Casto said they are considering ways to better document other sectors of D.C.’s music landscape in the future.

This story originally appeared at WAMU.