Barnard Zine Library: Privileging Creators Barnard Zine Library policies and procedures are intended to be responsive to and reflective of zine community ethos. Honoring a zine maker's request to remove her zine from one's collection can provoke ethical fisticuffs in a zine librarian/librarian zinester's heart. To whom is the feminist archivist of living authors' materials more responsible, the authors themselves or researchers from the future? And to distant researchers? If we want the voices represented in the Barnard Zine Library--default female, as often as not queer, often young, usually radical, women of color emphasized, etc.--to be part of the archival narrative of the late 20th/early 21st century is it a mistake to privilege the zines' creators wishes? As Kate Eichhorn posits in The Archival Turn in Feminism can "…item-level cataloging of marginal materials holds more potential for subversion than simply digitizing the same materials." even for remote users of our collection? This paper will explore how, influenced by our location in an institution peopled by faculty and scholars that integrate intersectional feminisms into their lives and work, it is ultimately reasonable to have a creator-centric philosophy inform our decision-making.

1. Intersectional Feminist Archives
Ethics Into Practice
Barnard Zine Library Disruptions
Presented by Jenna Freedman
NYU Radical Archives Conference, April 2014

2. collection statement
Barnard's zines are written by women (cis- and
transgender) with an emphasis on zines by
women of color. We collect zines on feminism and
femme identity by people of all genders. The zines
are personal and political publications on activism,
anarchism, body image, third wave feminism,
gender, parenting, queer community, riot grrrl,
sexual assault, trans experience, and other topics.

3. changing identities
● Name
● Gender I would have included a
zine cover here, but
doing so would call
attention to zine
publishers who are
trying to distance
themselves from a
previous identity.

4. copying & scanning
● Interlibrary
loan
● Incarcerated
people
38%
26%
20%
16%
Are you comfortable with Barnard Zine Library
personnel photocopying a zine to send to a
remote patron?
I SEE NO PROBLEM WITH
THIS
ONLY IF THE ZINE IS NOT
AVAILABLE FOR SALE
I DO NOT FEEL
COMFORTABLE WITH
THIS
OTHER

5. item-level cataloging
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6. item-level cataloging
http://screencast.com/t/fV6Ka5BVv

7. item-level cataloging
http://screencast.com/t/fV6Ka5BVv

8. links & stuff
● Barnard Zine Library
– zines.barnard.edu
– @barnlib
– facebook.com/barnardzinelibrary
● List of zine libraries worldwide
zines.barnard.edu/zine-libraries
● Using CLIO to find zines clio.columbia.edu/catalog
● Jenna
– lowereastsidelibrarian.info
– jfreedman@barnard.edu

9. gratuitous cat
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