The Director of the Barnard Zine Library's Role in the Library

💜 Barnard's zines reflect the Barnard College student population with regard to gender. 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. 💜

relationships * trust * care

Item-level cataloging in CLIO

Per Kate Eichhorn, Dean: School of Arts at Emerson College

• The Archival Turn in Feminism, Temple University Press, 2013
• Beyond Digitisation: A Case Study of Three Contemporary Collections, Archives & Manuscripts, 2014

Articles by Jenna (and writing partners)

• The Barnard Zine Library: The Controlled and the Wild, in Zines in Libraries: Selecting, Purchasing, and Processing, ALA Editions, 2022
• Cutter and Paste: A DIY Guide for Catalogers Who Don’t Know About Zines and Zine Librarians Who Don't Know About Cataloging in Informed Agitation: Library and Information Skills in Social Justice Movements and Beyond, Library Juice Press, 2014. Co-author: Rhonda Kauffman
• Punk as a Zine Library, Maximum Rocknroll, 2014

Catalogers

• Jenna, 20% FTE (probably less, but that's the idea!)
• Claudia, catalogs a few titles, but is more focused on archival processing (zinester ephemera collections)
• Nayla, catalogs Spanish-language zines, in support of Almudena Marin Cobos's elementary Spanish classes, in particular. Five hours/week this fall.
• Jade Levine, BC '19: freelance contractor
• Rhonda Yen Kauffman: freelance contractor

Classes, Workshops, and Programming

• Black Zine Fair read & chat
• Clubs, e.g., Barnard Zine Club, Azine
• Grad student workshops
• Zine library tours, given by Claudia
• Zine making lab time
• Office hours, staffed by students

1-3 programs per semester, topics like

• zine making
• design
• drawing
• keeping a diary or journal
• accessibility 
• topical close readings