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Stack Notes February 2018

It's a busy month for BLAIS!

January 31, 2019

February 2018. Contact us at library.barnard.edu or @barnlib on Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter

Charlotte Price, Librarian for the Performing Arts, will be providing support for the Libraries in the Context of Capitalism Conference at Metropolitan New York Library Council on February 1-2! The conference explores what it means for libraries, archives, and museums to serve public interest in an environment in which profit is all-important. Barnard Librarians will be watching the event virtually from the library as well.

Please welcome Kristen Hogan (she/her), our new BLAIS Director for Collections Strategy and Library Operations! With a career in social justice-based team building and project management, she is excited to contribute to Barnard’s impact on the future of librarianship and community building through literature. When she’s not working or reading, she’s walking her two dogs and baking.

Endangered Data Week (February 26–March 2, 2018) is a collaborative effort to shed light on public datasets that are in danger of being deleted, repressed, mishandled, or lost. As part of EDW, members of the XFR Collective will hold a presentation on Tuesday, February 27 11 AM-12:30 PM in Weber 118. XFR Collective is a non-profit organization that aims to lower barriers to preserving at-risk audiovisual media.

IMATS Workshops are back! On February 2, there will be a Photoshop Workshop on Postcard Design, and on February 16, a Premiere Tutorial on Making Bad Romance Videos! All workshops take place from 1 - 3 PM in the IMATS Student Editing Room, in Sulzberger Annex 2nd Floor. Also, congrats to Melanie Hibbert, Associate Director of Instructional Media Services for publishing an article in the Journal of Interactive Online Learning! It is titled “Blurred Experiences: The undefined contours of student learning in online environments” and can be viewed in full by following the link in this image.

In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the historic 1968 protests at Barnard and Columbia, BCRW will host a conversation and exhibit reflecting on the role of Barnard students in these events. The Barnard Archives and Special Collections worked with students and alumnae to select images for and help plan the exhibit. The exhibit and panel discussion will take place on March 6, 2018.

There are three primary tenets of reproductive justice (RJ), a human rights approach to reproductive freedom and autonomy developed by women of color: they assert the universal rights to have children, to NOT have children, and to parent children in safe and healthy environments. When first developed in 1994, this was a revolutionarily holistic approach compared to mainstream reproductive rights conversations. But as the co-authors of this helpful primer on the movement write, “The problem is not defining reproductive justice but achieving it.” To that end, they start with a concise reproductive history of the United States, focusing specifically on the race-, class- and gender-based inequities experienced by people of color who can become pregnant and give birth (their suggestion of more inclusive language). The majority of the book details the origin of the RJ movement, the theories that informed its growth, and the strategies its activists and organizations use to try to achieve these goals. Co-written by Loretta Ross, one of the twelve black women who co-coined the term, and concluding with stories provided by on-the-ground contemporary RJ leaders, this book can serve as both a primary and secondary source on the movement’s history and current activities. The reference lists lead to other essential RJ documents. • Reproductive Justice: An Introduction • Loretta J. Ross and Rickie Solinger • Barnard KF3760.R67 2017 • Review by Jennie Correia, Social Sciences Librarian

 

 

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