Every month we highlight a different theme that can be studied or enjoyed using our zine library. This month, our theme is Martha. We chose it to honor Martha Tenney's tenure in the Barnard Archive. Martha is an ideal archivist, colleague, activist, friend, and connoisseur of margaritas and manicures.
Every month we highlight a different theme that can be studied or enjoyed using our zine library. This month, our theme is quilt*. We chose it to complement the Weaving Dreams exhibit opening.
Every month we highlight a different theme that can be studied or enjoyed using our zine library. This month, our theme is < hurricane* katrina > commemorating the 20th anniversary of the storm that did so much damage, disproportionately impacting poor and BIPOC New Orleanians. Zines provide an important means for people outside of mainstream media and academia to report their experiences. As print materials collected and preserved in libraries, zines help history be written by everyone, even/especially queer punks.
Every month we highlight a different theme that can be studied or enjoyed using our zine library. This month, our theme is witch*. About a quarter of the holdings come from zines made in Wendy Schor-Haim's Witches seminar. Many of the others are from practicing witches! šÆ
The librarian-scholar, who joined the College in April, is committed to community-building and open knowledge.
Our conference proposal, Lesbian and Queer Zines in Libraries and Archives: Undergraduate Perspectives, was accepted! the student zine librarians who envisioned our presentation!
Every month we highlight a different theme that can be studied or enjoyed using our zine library. Given the temperature and precipitation ups and downs of this spring, we thought weather in zines might be fun to explore.
Every month we highlight a different theme that can be studied or enjoyed using our zine library. This month, we decided to explore the banned words list (as collected by Pen America) for a topic. The phrase "peanut allergies" leapt out to us because we have an incredible zine by an aspiring flight attendant conquering her peanut allergy through immunotherapy.
Congratulations to our three awardees: A'misa Chiu, Mariame Sissoko, and Tia Smith!
Every month we highlight a different theme that can be studied or enjoyed using our zine library. March 2025's WGaZfT is DIY reusable menstrual pads. < zines AND (menstrual OR maxi OR cloth) AND pad* AND (diy OR "how to") >
Every month we highlight a different theme that can be studied or enjoyed using our zine library. This month's WGaZfT is zines en espaƱol, of which we currently have 95 (as of December 23, 2024).
Barnard Zine Library and Barnard Archives staff were invited to give an introduction to our collections, programs, and philosophies by the Archivists Round Table (ART) of New York.
Every month we highlight a different theme that can be studied or enjoyed using our zine library. This month's WGaZfT is Zoe*.
*Some Zoes are actually a Zoƫs. In the Barnard Zine Library, we love diacritics!**
**Especially our Spanish language cataloger Nayla
Barnard Library Research Award winner Hypatia Sorunke shares some of their findings.
Every month we highlight a different theme that can be studied or enjoyed using our zine library. This month's WGaZfT is tea. With the NYC weather changing (along with the global climate), some of us are switching from iced to hot tea for the winter.
Sometimes you get behind on maintenance tasks. Forgive us webmaster, for it has been TEN MONTHS since we updated the Zines with Online Links page.
Zine Library Drop In Hours Are Back! Come by MLC 203 12-3 on Fridays for walk-in help!
Every month we highlight a different theme that can be studied or enjoyed using our zine library. This month's WGaZfT is surveillance.
We have hired a Barnard alum to serve as our first Spanish language zine cataloger!
Every month we highlight a different theme that can be studied or enjoyed using our zine library. This month's WGaZfT is Audre Lorde. 1990s (and later) zinesters love(d) to quote her.