Library Acquisitions
Recent Acquisitions and Updates:
Every academic year, CfIS acquires new books for the Bard College Stevenson Library. During the 2025-2026 academic year, CfIS acquired 165 new books for the library. Out of the 165 books, 67% are written by Native authors and scholars. CfIS has acquired over 700 books for the library since 2024. This year we acquired 17 fiction and 148 nonfiction titles, including: cookbooks, poetry books, memoirs, short stories, primary resources, graphic novels, children’s books and more.
In the Hands of the River by Lucien Darjeun Meadows
About the Collection:
Following the three year project titled, “Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuk” ending in Spring 2025, Bard College Center for Indigenous Studies (CfIS) will continue and further the work of acquiring books for the Stevenson Library, accessible to all Bard faculty, staff, students, and local community members.
Acquisitions will focus on core Native American and Indigenous Studies texts, centering Indigenous and BIPOC authors & theorists. Significant library acquisitions will also be focused on yearly and semester based themes determined by both the Library’s and the CfIS’ dedicated staff.
With the addition of these new acquisitions, CfIS and the Bard Stevenson Library will host celebratory programming including book talks, lectures, new acquisition displays & exhibitions, and making/doing workshops.
