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 January 2024 is…HAIR.
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In 2023 (as of December 4) we circulated 394 zines. Many of them were checked out by zine library staff for use in classes, or a loan to the Brooklyn Museum for their little exhibit Copy Machine Manifestos, but 131 were lent to Barnumbia affiliates for research or pleasure reading.
Apply now for a $3000 award to support your research at the archives, library, or zine library.
Claudia Acosta has co-curated with Scout Lee an exhibit called “Weird Rings True” : Cartoon Marginalia Resurfaced from the Abc No Rio Zine Library. The exhibit opens Saturday 12/2 6-9 PM and is viewable through the 17th during gallery hours Fridays 4-7 and Saturdays and Sundays 2-6 at Project Reach 39 Eldridge Street, 4th Fl., New York, NY 10002.
We are elated to announce that the NYC Feminist Zinefest will be return to Barnard College's James Room on April 6, 2024. Tabling applications are due on January 1st, 2024.
This month we're highlighting zine holdings created by non-binary authors– if you want to be Boolean about it < zines AND (nonbinary OR genderqueer OR noncomforming OR non-conforming) > (and limiting the search to zines held at Barnard). As of November 14, 2023, that search yielded 160 results.
The We've Got a Zine for That theme for November 2023 is risograph zines.
The Barnard Zine Library lent four zines to the Brooklyn Museum for its upcoming exhibit Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines.
Senior Nayla Delgado ’24 celebrates Hispanic identity with a collection that centers Hispanic, Latinx, and Spanish-speaking voices.
We've Got a Zine for That! Each month we highlight zines with a topical theme. The theme for October 2023 is Organized Labor, including Student Workers.
We've Got a Zine for That! Each month we highlight zines with a topical theme. The theme for September 2023 is Working Class College Students, or zines made by college students who are working class and/or low-income.
The Barnard Zine Library won a $30,000 award from the Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
We've Got a Zine for That! Each month we highlight zines with a topical theme. The theme for August 2023 is Pre-College, or zines made by participants in Barnard's Pre-College Program
We've Got a Zine for That! Each month we highlight zines with a topical theme. The theme for June 2023 is Tattoos!
Barnard Zine Tech Claudia Acosta has earned their MLIS in Library & Information Studies with a concentration in Archives from Queens College.
We've Got a Zine for That! Each month we highlight zines with a topical theme. The theme for June 2023 is Police & Policing!
We've Got a Zine for That! Each month we highlight zines with a topical theme. The theme for May 2023 is self-care zines! We hope you'll take the zines' message into consideration as you work your way through final papers and exams.
