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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.
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 tea. With the NYC weather changing (along with the global climate), some of us are switching from iced to hot tea for the winter.
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.
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 May 2024 is… occupy < zines occup* location:Barnard subject(genre):zines >
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 April 2024 is…< zines AND haggad* >.
We're honored to be a co-sponsor of the Black Zine Fair, to be held at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn on May 11, 2024 from 11-6pm.
We're celebrating twenty years of zines at Barnard with a small gathering of current and former staff, faculty who teach with zines, and friends of the zine library.
This month we're highlighting zine holdings centered around protest – <zines AND protest* > (and limiting the search to zines held at Barnard). As of January 25, 2024, that search yielded 142 results.
The Barnard Zine Library lent four zines to the Brooklyn Museum for its upcoming exhibit Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines.