We added zines about equity in education, fast fashion, empathy, monuments (in English and Spanish), quarantine time, Keanu Reeves in conversation with Pema Chödrön, an American in Germany, an Ohio housewife who has had it with Donald Trump, and overthrowing your job.
New Barnard Zine Technician and Barnumbia family member, Claudia, reviews the 2020 Barnard/Columbia Disorientation Guide!
Seats on Milstein floors 1, 2, and 3 are available by reservation - so you can study in your favorite green chair again!
This week we added zines by students in Barnard's Pre-College Program in the Young Women's Leadership Initiative (YWLI) track offered by the Athena Center and the latest issue of the Barnard Zine Club zine, Sticks & Stones #19: Found. The YWLI zines confront inequities and injustice in education, stereotypes, gun violence, discrimination against transgender people, reproductive justice, quaggas, and the general blight of capitalism.
The Dean will provide intellectual, strategic, operational, and visionary leadership for the Library in alignment with Barnard’s vision, mission and strategic goals.
At the recent hack/doc, 40 participants worked on developing tools for Islandora, the system that powers our Digital Archive
We added zines about dating, sex, breakups, touring with a band, traveling around African countries, hapa and mixed race identities, the joys of laying out a zine using real scissors and glue, and poems about losing your mother in your 20s.
This week we added zines about a Kinsey 5 girl falling in love with a man while studying abroad in France, a Spanish lesbian in Montréal writing in English and French, DIY reproductive health with herbs, reproductive justice, the masculine and feminine in punk, and how to make paper stars (thereby soothing your soul).
This week we added zines about navigating holidays with family, solo living during quarantine, police budgets in Connecticut related to percentage of white residents, making music when you can't practice with your band, pandemic life for middle schoolers in Abu Dhabi, the US election, and Onion-like stories from a US expat in Berlin.
If you're a Barnard student and identify as first-generation and/or low-income, please fill out the Barnard FLI Partnership Library Textbook Request Form by Wednesday, December 16 at noon EST.
This week we added zines about famous people who share the same name, feeling the sad, pandemic coping for kids, quarantine life in Berlin (The Onion style), queer quarantine TV choices, female-bodied genderqueer femme gay boi Gemini rising identity, and ex-boifriends.
With the fall semester coming to end and holiday season on its way, it's time for the December 2020 issue of @barnlib. Keep reading for news and highlights from the BLAIS Staff!
This week we added zines about non-electoral activism, policing in libraries, May Day in Austria under quarantine, ICE watch, police abolition, worldwide deities, growth, small sources of joy, and the Black Lives Matter movement in Ireland.
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
Christina Juste and Kristen Hogan presented at the first virtual meeting of Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures, a new division of the American Library Association.
Read about the latest grants earned by Barnard faculty and staff to support their research.
Miriam is quoted in Library Journal's new article, How COVID-19 Has Transformed Reference Services for Public and Academic Libraries, speaking about new academic technologies and issues of equity.
Here's a quick update from the Barnard Zine Library. Rather, it's sort of a collection of updates.