We've Got a Zine for That! Each month we highlight zines with a topical theme. The theme for April 2023 is Drag Zines!
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Last year, 2022, Grace Li BC '24 was inspired to explore the Asian American and Pacific Islander zinester community in New York City.
Welcome to a new feature: We've Got a Zine for That! Each month we'll highlight zines with a topical theme. In honor of the water rabbit, the theme for February 2023 is rabbits!
The Movement Lab and Zine Library will host a series of crossover Stillness Labs Wednesdays in November 11:45-12:45 in MLC 020.
Zyaijah Nadler from Primary Care Health Service invited us to identify zines from our collection that address relationship violence.
In support of Barnard Signs the Way programming, we're sharing some zines from our library by d/Deaf creators.
The Barnard Zine Library and the Digital Humanities Center present The Collage Corner. Located on the 2nd floor of Milstein Center in the Zine Stacks, the Collage Corner provides and solicits resources for collages and other art projects. We provide art supplies, cut-and-pastables, and paper that anyone can use. We invite people to share materials, as well. Think about your fellow DIY artists when you're packing up your room at the end of the semester!
Barnard Zine Library Curator Jenna Freedman is presenting "Issues in Zine Cataloging" at the conference on Friday, July 8 at 2pm Eastern.
We have made a selection of reproduction justice zines available in print in the zine library and provide links to them online via CLIO.
We have circulating zine kits! They contain:
2 glue sticks
2 magazines or catalogs
8 extra fine markers in assorted colors
Ambidextrous scissors
Plastic bone folder
Stencil set
Zine kit zine
Barnard DHC and Zine Library staff are presenting at this year's NYC DH Week!
With Valentine's Day approaching, we want folks to know that there's a place in the zine library for people who aren't interested in sex and/or romantic love.
August 21, 2021 | 12:00pm - 7:00pm
The People's Forum, 20 West 37th Street, NY, NY 10018
Did you know we have zines in our collection from almost 50 countries in more than a dozen languages? That includes these French zines you can read on the way to storming the Bastille in July!
Teaching, Learning, and Digital Scholarship team members are sharing projects with each other. Here's ours!
On March 18, 2021 Barnard Zine Library staff led a STEM of Zines workshop. Here are the resources.
“A world without police and prisons is not something we can get just by making demands of the state. A world that is genuinely safe and nourishing for us all, one without punishment or exile is one that makes demands of us: that we take care of each other.”
New Barnard Zine Technician and Barnumbia family member, Claudia, reviews the 2020 Barnard/Columbia Disorientation Guide!
Josalynn Smith, Rita Nguyen 'BC 23, and Jenna Freedman led a workshop on using Canvas, Google Slides, and InDesign to make zines. Here are the slides, video, and zine templates.
We're hiring a Zine Tech! $30/hour for 10-15 hours/week. Note: we need you in person/on campus for half the hours, as long as it's safe. https://careers.barnard.edu/postings/5282
Here's a quick update from the Barnard Zine Library. Rather, it's sort of a collection of updates.
Big Wing Little Wing by Emily is the Barnard Zine Library's Zine of the Month for October 2020.
Barnard Zine Assistant, Mikako Murphy reviews Indoorsy, a quaranzine series around the themes of the past and present.
We're recognizing Professor Lozano for her innovative and collaborative 'Radio Immigrante' project! We've also named three runner-ups - Meredith Benjamin, Wendy Schor-Haim, and Cecelia Lie-Spahn - for their work with the Zine library.
Sillywish #5 is a zine made by a queer, white 14-year-old in 1996. With creator Ocean Capewell's blessing, we have digitized it and provided you a page-by-page view (with transcriptions for screen readers) of her high school freshman self. She writes about depression, body image, and crushing on a friend (using "they" pronouns when "they" was often used by closeted people to avoid specifying a gender, not nonbinary). Other features include quotes from Saved by the Bell and Susan Sontag, zine reviews, and a page about the riot grrrl band Team Dresch.
The Barnard Zine Library is physically closed, but staff are working to collect, catalog, and provide access to zines. We are also prepared to teach classes and support research.
Share your voice with the Archives, add a Zine to our collection, or collaborate on documentation with the Media Center.
Cristen Kennedy from Being Barnard invited us to contribute to their Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) project by sharing recommended zines on the topic.
Women & Nonbinary People: We Want Your COVID-19 Zines!
The Barnard Library will award $2,500 to two researchers to support their use of its Archives, Media Center, Zine Library, and other collections/resources.
The Pine Tree Scholars program introduces Barnard and Columbia students to the crafts associated with fine book production, such as typography, letterpress printing, bookbinding, and papermaking, as well as to the rare and art book trades. Most of these sessions include a hands-on component but no prior experience is necessary. All mandatory sessions will take place on Friday afternoons; two optional sessions take place other times.
Megnot Mulugeta and Jade Levine interview each other about working in the zine library.
Last February, middle schoolers from the Blue School took a field trip to the Barnard Zine Library.
We moved over 1600 zines into the Barnard Archives from Spring 2016 to Spring 2019!
Mylo Mendez brings their class on artists books and zines to the Barnard Zine Library on Thursday 2/14/19
Tuesday, February 11, 2019 in the Barnard Zine Library
Jenna's panel is part of the NYCDH kickoff on February 4.
For research perfomed in the Barnard Archives, Center for Research on Woman, or Zine Library. Applications due midnight ET 3/3/19.
Friday afternoon bookmaking. Applications due Monday 9/24/18.
Young Women's Leadership Initiative workshop led by Jade Levine, Jenna Freedman, and Jennie Correia
