Barnard College News


For National Student Employment Week, we're celebrating our student workers.

Code4Lib is a volunteer-driven collective of hackers, designers, architects, curators, catalogers, artists, etc. who largely work for and with libraries, archives and museums on technology “stuff."

The theme of the 44th Annual Scholar and Feminist Conference of the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW), taking place on February 8-9, 2019, is "Politics and Ethics of the Archive." Professor of Religion Elizabeth Castelli, Director of the BCRW, discusses why this topic is important and urgent.

Jenna's panel is part of the NYCDH kickoff on February 4.


The CLIR Grant team is making progress on their proposed project.





They highlighted the Design/Media Centers' work with movement and dance.

SNCC focused on voter registration and on mounting a systemic challenge to the white supremacy that governed the country’s entrenched political, economic and social structures.

Zakiya presented at The Legacy Project in Weeksville, and Marya presented at the African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities Conference at the University of Maryland.

Appropriately, the show is titled The 1 Train is Delayed.

For research perfomed in the Barnard Archives, Center for Research on Woman, or Zine Library. Applications due midnight ET 3/3/19.

It's a strange insight into what a certain group of American consumers was thought to desire in the 20th century.

We're lucky to have such brilliant minds at BLAIS!

It took place in Charlottesville, VA from October 8-10.


It's part of Grrl Haus Cinema.

We're thrilled to work with her!



They experienced and learned about emerging technologies and applications.

Barnard celebrated the grand opening of The Cheryl and Philip Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning on October 3, 2018.

We're very excited to welcome and celebrate Zakiya and Suze!



Jen's workshop will focus on community building around POC experiences in LIS.

Dive into the fraught history of immigration to the US.


The Library newsletter is now called @barnlib. Welcome to our first issue!


Marko Krkeljas is the new Software Developer & Academic Technologist, and Guy de Lancey is the new Studio Manager and Technician.



Elana Altman is the new Academic Technologist for Web & UX, and Rachel James is the new Media & Instruction Specialist.



Butler 406, 406A, and 409: Barnard books out, graphic novels in.

BCRW/Archives grant, reminders about summer borrowing, and Jenna Freedman's MoMA talk.

Offsite books are starting to return to the library's new home!


Jenna Freedman presents Library Cataloging & Classification: Reifying the Default



Barnard Archives, in partnership with the Barnard Center for Research on Women is awarded $24,349 toward Preserving the Audio Recordings of The Scholar and Feminist Conference

Barnard Library staff are reuniting with our holdings soon after being separated from them for the last two years!

Nominated along with Professor Kenny: technologist Corey Tegeler.

Open Access resources are now integrated with CLIO searches.


Students, staff, and faculty got to connect with Ntozake, and hear about her work in progress on Black choreographers and dance.



Choose the best citation manager for your needs!

Missed the event? You can still see the highlight, Jenna's slideshow!

Whether you're in these classes or not, the research guides are sure to be useful and interesting.

Haven't you always wanted to learn more about Japanese puppet theater?


An Adobe Premiere workshop, Stressbusters, Adventures without Gender, and more.

The Barnard Library joins other radical archiving organizations for a performance program at PS1.

It is a collaborative effort to improve Islandora, the open-source software framework we use for Barnard Digital Collections.

Stream historical and recent videos from the fields of ethnography and anthropology.

Try to wrap up your research before March 30!


Jenna Freedman was a panelist at ARLIS 2018!


We're fun and cool to work with. If you're an Academic Technologist, now's your chance to join the party.

The conference is at the intersection of libraries, musems, archives, and open technologies.

She and her collaborators will do research in Beijing in late March.

Students from Cookie Academy were inspired by the Zine Library.



It explores students' learning experiences with online instructional video.

Kristen comes to us from the University of Texas!

The panel discussion and exhibit will trace the history of activism on campus and beyond from 1968 to the present.

Library Stack is a living collection of independent ebooks, audio files, videos and digital documents being published within the fields of contemporary art, design, media studies, cinema, architecture and philosophy.


Gumby himself called it the "The Unwritten History'" of the United States.



It's a great resource for book design lovers and history enthusiasts!




Learn about the early history of the printing industry.

Interesting and informative reads to get you through the end of the year.

