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BCRW Presents: The BCRW Ephemeral Archive (A Sneak Preview)

Emilie

During my post as research assistant at the BCRW for the past couple of years, I’ve had the opportunity to delve into one of the best hidden historical collections on campus: the BCRW archive. The library at 101 Barnard Hall is home to a wide-ranging collection of ephemeral feminist documents, mainly materials from the 1980s and 1990s, but also with a large array of documents from the 1970s, that the Center has accumulated since its inception in 1971. In an effort to render the ephemeral collection more visible and accessible to the University and to the public, I have jumped on the tail end of a multi-year project to digitally index the ephemeral collection. As the first major step in the archiving process approaches its conclusion, below is a sneak peak of just one example of what the collection contains.

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