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Updates, new acquisitions, and occasional frivolity from Barnard College Library. Questions of any kind can be directed to our "Ask" box, and reference questions, department questions, and concerns can also be answered privately by email: [email protected]

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The Barnard Library is changing with the times and as such, we’re now on SnapChats (@BarnLib)! Pictured above is a sample of the quality content you can expect to find on our snapchat.

What does this mean for the Barnard Library Tumblr?

Well, we’re going to be posting the most on Instagram, updating everyone on events and changes in hours on Facebook, giving sneak peaks into the behind-the-scenes life of the Barnard Library on SnapChat, and using this Tumblr when we need a longform platform.

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With the 2016 Commencement of Barnard College fresh in our minds  (a big and bittersweet congrats to all the 2016 grads!! We’ll miss you, come back and visit, alumnae are welcome always at the Barnard Library), todays throwback Thursday is Commencement-themed.

The top photo shows a group of newly-graduated Barnard students cheering their heads off in 1972.

The lower photo pictures our now gone Lehman Hall, with Elena Alvarez receiving her degree in front in 1982.

Thanks to the Barnard Archives for the photos, and thanks to the Barnard class of 2016 for being such amazing people.

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‘The Great Speckled Bird’, Atlanta, Georgia, 1969.

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#tbt to finishing that last paper before moving out with your tunes blaring

Photo courtesy Barnard Digital Archives

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A crossover Martha’s Manis & Manuscripts today! Zines and archives, archives and zines. This is our series where Barnard Digital Archivist Martha Tenney shows off her fab nails and some of the fascinating works they process over in LeFrak.

Did you know that in addition to the circulating zine collection, we have a non-circulating special collection of zines in the Archives? The Archives' zine collection is also curated and cataloged (individually!) by Jenna Freedman and searchable through CLIO.

For more info, visit zines.barnard.edu. Pictured here, Mestiza by Bianca Ortiz.

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Barnard Library is wicked excited to present this awesome panel next week, on Wednesday May 4th from 7pm to 9pm.

Join the Barnard Library for a lively discussion on gender, race, violence, and acceptance in the NY rock and metal scene with panel speakers Mindy Abovitz (Tom Tom Magazine creator/editor), Kristen Korvette (creator of feminist website Slutist), Laina Dawes (author of ’What are you doing here? A black woman’s life & liberation in heavy metal’), Justina Villanueva (photographer & artist), and Cristy Road (punk musician, zinester, & artist).

Moderated by Columbia University librarian and metal scholar Joan Jocson-Singh, and Barnard Library’s own performing arts librarian Charlotte Price, this event is free and open to everyone. Check out the Facebook event.

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HAPPENING 2NITE!!

Arrive an hour early and you can get a backrub and some snax at Stressbusters in LeFrak.

Since the Barnard Library is open to anyone, our circulating zines collection can be browsed before or after the presentation. Check out some zines on women in rock/metal/riot grrrl/punk on our catalog CLIO!

Extra Credit: Take a look at Cristy C. Road’s zine Greenzine in the zine stacks

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It’s Monday!! Which means time for ~~Martha’s Manis & Manuscripts~~. This is our series where Barnard Digital Archivist Martha Tenney shows off her fab nails and some of the fascinating works they process over in LeFrak.

Today: a 1960s scandal on cohabitation! From Martha:

In 1968, a scandal arose over the living situation of a Barnard sophomore, Linda LeClair, who was cohabiting with her boyfriend in an off-campus apartment. LeClair (and many students) argued that she was emancipated from her parents, an adult responsible for herself, and that Barnard's housing rules were antiquated.

The student-faculty judicial council imposed a light punishment (banning her from the cafeteria), which was eventually overruled by Barnard's president, Martha Peterson, who expelled LeClair. LeClair ended up dropping out, but the controversy was reported on in the New York Times and other newspapers, prompting a deluge of (mostly anti-LeClair) letters to President Peterson. We have dozens of these letters in BC47, the Linda LeClair collection. Seen here, one of the anti-LeClair letters, which accuses her of flouting the Ten Commandments as well as New York State law.

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 t's that time of the year again... With exams looming and papers upon papers stacked on your desk, it's easy to forget to wind down for a little bit. Don't worry though, we got you: on Wednesday, May 4th, Stressbusters will come to the Barnard Library in the LeFrak Center from 6 to 8 to provide free back rubs to any and all who need it.

We’ll also provide snackage and hot bevs (obviously), and you'll have a chance to snag one of our leftover Millie-shaped cookie cutters from our cookie party last month. This is the same night as our Women in Rock and Metal event, so stop by early before heading to the panel!

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‘Jewish Feminism and Idenity Politics’, Jenny Bourne, Institute for Race Relations, London, [early 1980s].

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Celebrate National Dance Week! (April 22 - May 1, 2016)

View of Michaelangelo Davis dancing in front of mirror.

Courtesy of the E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library

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Barnard Library is wicked excited to present this awesome panel next week, on Wednesday May 4th from 7pm to 9pm.

Join the Barnard Library for a lively discussion on gender, race, violence, and acceptance in the NY rock and metal scene with panel speakers Mindy Abovitz (Tom Tom Magazine creator/editor), Kristen Korvette (creator of feminist website Slutist), Laina Dawes (author of 'What are you doing here? A black woman's life & liberation in heavy metal'), Justina Villanueva (photographer & artist), and Cristy Road (punk musician, zinester, & artist).

Moderated by Columbia University librarian and metal scholar Joan Jocson-Singh, and Barnard Library's own performing arts librarian Charlotte Price, this event is free and open to everyone. Check out the Facebook event.

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This week’s Martha’s Manis & Manuscripts celebrates an out of season Halloween, with a yearbook from 1899. This is our series where Barnard Digital Archivist Martha Tenney shows off her fab nails and some of the fascinating works they process over in LeFrak

It's a little early to be celebrating Halloween, but with finals coming up, we could all use a little help with the prevention of gloom. Plus, who doesn't love a gothy secret-ish club? From the 1899 yearbook, available for your perusal in the Archives and in the Digital Collections:

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For Earth Day, we’re posting a photo from the 1990 campus Earth Coalition. Located on page 182 of the 1990 Mortarboard, the Earth Coalition dedicated themselves to promoting environmental awareness, as well as throwing a big event at Low Library.

Thanks to Barnard Archives’ Digital Collections for the photo!

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REST IN POWER, PRINCE

The world has lost a cultural icon, as police reported the death of Prince (Prince Rogers Nelson) earlier today, April 21st, 2016.

There’s no word yet on the cause of Prince’s death at this time, but the music world surely mourns the passing of one of its most innovative artists.

“Prince was just 19 years old when he released his first album, putting out For You in 1978. In the decades that followed, he went on to develop a unique sound and style that endeared him to generations of audiences…” via NPR

Prince will be continually rediscovered and appreciated throughout the generations, having left a permanent imprint on his medium.

May he rest in power.

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In celebration of the Ntozake Shange ‘70 Archive coming to Barnard Archives, we’re posting a poem from the Barnard publication Black Heights, a magazine for and by black students at Barnard and Columbia.

The title of this poem is “The Other Woman,” and it appears in Black Heights 1979, volume 1 number 1. See more from Black Heights at the Barnard Archives’ Digital Collections.

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It’s Monday!! Which means time for ~~Martha’s Manis & Manuscripts~~. This is our series where Barnard Digital Archivist Martha Tenney shows off her fab nails and some of the fascinating works they process over in LeFrak.

The Dean's Office Records is a gargantuan collection (225 boxes!), primarily composed of correspondence between the Dean's Office (precursor to the President's Office) and departments, students, alums, other administrators, etc. It's organized according to a complex filing schema and can sometimes be intimidating, but it is the source of some of the richest documentation of Barnard's first 60 years.

Here, from the 1922-1923 17dd (Dean's Office Speeches, articles, annual report) file, is a thrilling memo asking for Dean Virginia Gildersleeve's reaction to the statement of noted troll Alonzo B. See (head of the A. B. See Elevator Company) that if he had his way he "would burn all the womens [sic] colleges in the country." Alonzo goes on to say that "the women of our country do not need to be educated but the education they need is to leave off smoking cigarettes stop using slang stop their swaggering give up their bold and brazen manner their paint and their powder and their lip sticks and to cease to dress indecently"!

Gildersleeve responded that she didn't think it worthwhile to comment on See's memo.

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Come decorate a sugar cookie with your favorite librarians! On April 18th from 6–8pm, we’re hosting a cookie party with Millie the Bear-shaped confections and myriad frosting and sprinkle options (glasses of milk provided, of course).

Kosher, GF, nut free, and vegan options will be available, courtesy of our baker-in-residence (and Performing Arts librarian) Charlotte Price! You can also take home your very own Millie-shaped cookie cutter at the end of the night. Check out the Facebook event here!