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.
Professor Kadambari Baxi is exploring the rapidly shifting landscape of reproductive healthcare with a botanical art installation at the Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning.
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!
Erinma Adaeze Onyewuchi '24 speaks with I Am Queen Mary artists about collaboration, colonial histories, and Black representation.
Congratulations to our three winners: Frankie Pokorny, Mila Turner, and Dev Montanez!
New collection available for researchers interested in Village Voice history, feminist film criticism, and late 20th century New York City writers circles
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.
In this series, we’ll make syllabi in the form of zines for the classes of our dreams! We’ll reimagine how to construct a syllabus for self-directed continuing education. The four-part series will culminate at the end of the semester with Barnard’s Scholaztic Zine Fair, where we’ll have a chance to share zines with friends and other Barnard students!
Apply now for a $3000 award to support your research at the archives, library, or zine library.
Winter is here, and we welcome you inside the Library and Milstein Center to find space for warmth, contemplation and creative outlet.
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.