The Barnard Zine Library is part of the Barnard Library in the Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning at Barnard College, Columbia University. The zines are described in the library catalog we share with Columbia University Libraries (CUL), CLIO.
♥ Barnard's zines reflect the interests and experiences of the Barnard College student population. We have zines by women, nonbinary people, and trans men, with a collection emphasis on zines by women of color and a newer effort to acquire more zines by trans women. We collect zines on feminism and femme identity by people of all genders. The zines are personal and political publications on a wide range of topics, broadly addressing gender, feminisms, identities, political activism, and popular culture. Frequent topics include, for example, teenage girlhoods, punk cultures, COVID-19, riot grrrl, LGBTQIA experiences, BIPOC identities, travel, comics, physical and mental health, body image, gender nonconformity, discrimination, DIY and crafting, cooking, friendship, and much more. Our zines are at the lower end of the production level scale and typically cost $10 or less, with most of them in the $1-$5 range.♥
There are two zine collections: circulating stacks and special collections.
Circulating zines are located on the 2nd floor of the Milstein Center and can be borrowed by Barnard and Columbia students and members of the BorrowDirect and MaRLI networks and are also available via interlibrary loan. Barnumbia loans are semester long and renewable 99 times.
The zine library is open the same hours as the Milstein Center, and can be checked out during Circulation & Help Desk hours.
Zines are physically organized by their LC call numbers.
The call numbers are in alphabetical and numerical order.
The tricky part? The numbers are decimals.
Examples:
A55. F69 2001 comes before C78. L5493 1990
AND
S3587. M56 1998 comes before S36 .M56 2010
AND
L290. J6 2020 comes before L3 .C59 2005
