Our conference proposal, Lesbian and Queer Zines in Libraries and Archives: Undergraduate Perspectives, was accepted! Kudos to Alex Owens BC '26 and Zoë Benavidez BC '27 who envisioned our presentation, which will also include Zoe Foshee BC '27 and Olivia Callanan BC '28!
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. This month's WGaZfT is fascis*. NO REASON. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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 español, 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*. We have two Zoes working in the zine library, and we have a collaboration in the works with Zoe Ross from the Design Center, so it seems like a good time to celebrate the Zoes in our lives!
*One of our Zoes is actually a Zoë. 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.
We have two new student zine librarians as of fall 2024: Zoë Benavidez BC '27 and Olivia Callanan BC '28. They join existing staff Claudia Acosta, Nayla Delgado BC '24, Zoe Foshee BC '27, Jenna Freedman, and Alex Owens BC '26 along with freelancer catalogers Jade Levine BC '19/Julia Lubey BC '18, and Rhonda Yen Kauffman.
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 Nayla Delgado BC '24 (English with a concentration in Creative Writing, with a minor in Translation Studies) 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.
The WGaZfT theme for August 2024 is...congresses! Yep, that's a little weird. We'll explain.
A zine library staff member curated a display of zines critical of the Barnard and Columbia with the aim of creating a conversation around the privileges we have as members of an elite institution and our obligation to recognize how we can be complicit in systems of oppression locally and abroad.
Each month we draw attention to the depth and breadth of our zine collections by highlighting a topic represented in our holdings. The theme for June 2024 is… law* OR legal*.