LibGuides: Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Research Guide: Local Resources

Barnard/Columbia

Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW)
and BCRW Publications, including the renowned Scholar & Feminist Online
Barnard Zine Library
Primary source materials on riot grrrl, third-wave feminism, and other topics
Barnard Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department
Columbia Women's and Gender Studies Department
Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality (IRWGS)
Polling, surveys, public opinion

NYC

Bluestockings Bookstore, Activist Center, and Fair Trade Cafe
Bluestockings is a volunteer-powered and collectively-owned radical bookstore, fair trade cafe, and activist center in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. We carry over 6,000 titles on topics such as feminism, queer and gender studies, global capitalism, climate & environment, political theory, police and prisons, race and black studies, radical education, plus many more! You can also find some good ‘ole smutty fiction, sci-fi, and poetry . We also carry magazines, zines, journals, alternative menstrual products and other oddly hard-to-find good things.
NYPL Women's and Gender Studies Research Guide
The research collections of The New York Public Library are one of the most important resource centers for Women's Studies in the United States. The collections consist of vast retrospective holdings relating to women, including manuscripts and archival materials, as well as a broad range of current Women's Studies materials reflecting new trends and thoughts on feminist theory and scholarship.

Other Libraries

Those with Columbia ID have access to the libraries of the Columbia Law School, the Jewish Theological Seminary, and Teachers’College, but their holdings are in their own catalogs, not in CLIO. CUID also provides access to the libraries of New York University. Anyone who lives, works, or goes to school in New York is entitled to a New York Public Library card.

Borrowing privileges with Columbia ID

Educat
Teachers College Library catalog
Pegasus
Arthur W. Diamond Law Library catalog

Access with CUID

Aleph
Jewish Theological Seminary catalog

BobCat
NYU library catalog

Require separate ID

New York Public Library
The New York Public Library (NYPL) has two catalogs - search Books/Music/Movies for items you can check out, and search Research for their extensive research collections.
NYPL Databases
require library card number for access. Apply online for a library card..

Catalogs: for a larger list of library catalogs in New York City and elsewhere, including the paid version of WorldCat, a catalog of catalogs that has holdings information from libraries all over the world and CRL, a catalog of rare and specialized materials, all available via Interlibrary Loan

Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Research Guide

Ask a Librarian

Liam Adler, WGSS Librarian

Barnard/Columbia

NYC

Other Libraries