intersectional feminist archives: ethics into practice, radical archives conference
DESCRIPTION
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.TRANSCRIPT
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Intersectional Feminist Archives Ethics Into PracticeBarnard Zine Library Disruptions
Presented by Jenna FreedmanNYU Radical Archives Conference, April 2014
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.
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.
copying & scanning
● Interlibrary loan
● Incarcerated people
38%
26%
20%
16%
Are you comfortable with Barnard Zine Li-brary 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 com-fortable with this
Other
item-level cataloging
http://screencast.com/t/fV6Ka5BVv
item-level cataloging
http://screencast.com/t/fV6Ka5BVv
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
