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Series 1 contains materials relating to Rona Wilk's academic work at Barnard including class notes, writing, curatorial projects, course registration records, syllabi and photos.

Commemorative wearables such as T-shirts and boxer shorts are a highlight of Rona Wilk's collection. There are fifteen T-shirts in Wilk's collection spanning from 1987-1991 including orientation T-shirts and local businesses promotional T-shirts. Wilk's description is included for historical context. Clothing included in this series:

• Barnard Bookforum Promotional T-Shirt, c.1990s, undated, Cotton single stitch T-shirt from Barnard Bookforum a local bookstore located between 116th and 115th Streets, on the west side of the street where many Barnard professors put in their book lists for classes (instead of at the Columbia bookstore). If you purchased $100 of books, you got a "free" T-shirt.
• Fall 1987 Orientation T-Shirt, 1987, Cotton single stitch T-shirt representing the three undergraduate colleges (BC, CC, Engineering).
• MacAc at Barnard T-shirt, undated, MacAc was the student activities board, based in the McIntosh Center student center. (McIntosh stood where the Diana Center now stands.)
• Barnard and Columbia Students for Choice (BSCS) T-shirt, 1989, T-shirt for march on Washington in support of women's reproductive rights, November 12, 1989. Took buses down to DC.
• Winterfest 1990 T-shirt, 1990, Cotton single stitch T-shirt. Winterfest was a celebration of the arts, held each year at Barnard.
• Exploration and Celebration T-Shirt, 1990, T-shirt from a Gathering of Jewish Feminist Women in or near our Twenties – March 4, 1990 – see packat of activities for this day-long conference in this collection. Day of prayer and activies with a feminist perspective on Judaism – including making an enormous tallit (prayer shawl) that all participants wrapped themselves in for the closing of the day.
• BHR Anti-Construction Party T-Shirt , 1987-88, A very sparsely attended party held in Reid dining room/common room to "celebrate" as it were the annoyance of the construction going on that year as they built the new dorm (now Sulzburger). Construction started early, as you can see from the cartoon on the back of this T-shirt. Also: many girls on the corner rooms of Reid complained about construction workers peeking in.
• Winterfest 1991 T-shirt, 1991. Cotton T-shirt.
• Senior Week 1991 T-Shirt, 1991, T-shirt commemorating senior week 1991. The theme was "Inferno" – comments from the little falling figures reflect the recession that we graduated into. ("A dollar and a dream" was the tagline for the NY Lottery at the time.) Note the little figure with a parachute says "Grad School".
• "Thesis – Just Do It" T-shirt, c.1991, Blue cotton T-shirt. On reverse: "Barnard Seniors Do It All Year Long". Just Do It had recently come out as part of Nike's ad campaign. T-shirts were the brainchild of Kristen Hoschler, our class president.
• "Thesis – Just Do It" T-shirt, c.1991, Purple cotton T-shirt.
• "What You Looking At?" Columbia Boxer Shorts, 1987-88, (probably fall 1987)– sold as a fundraiser of some sort; they came around the dorm selling them.
• Barnard Blue Key Society Boxer Shorts, c. 1990s, Blue Key was service organization.

Series 3, contains playbills and programs from plays, musicals, and performances attended by Rona Wilk during her college years 1987-1991.

Box 9, Folder 2 contains correspondence regarding Jeannette Mirsky's nomination for an honorary degree at Columbia University. Box 19, Folder 1 contains a notebook from an Anthropology course entitled "Social Organization" which Mirsky was enrolled in from 1934-1935 at Columbia University.

This series includes Guidelines for Accessibility created by the Office of Disability Services (ODS) now known as the Center for Accessibility Resources Disability Services (CARDS). There are booklets aimed towards Disabled students, the non-Disabled Barnard students, and to professors. There is also a booklet of student accomodative aids.

This series incudes the grant proposal for the Max C. Fleischmann Foundation spearheaded by Julie Marstellar, the first Dean of Disabled Students at Barnard. The grant was supposed to cover physical changes to Barnard's campus like adding accessible entrances as well as fund programs to expand the services provided to Disabled students at Barnard.

Series 07, Adaptations and Works Inspired by Shange, 1994-2011, undated, includes screenplays, teleplays, poems, scripts, and book drafts and manuscripts directly adapted from works by Shange or inspired by Shange. This series includes multiple screenplay adaptations of for colored girls.

Series 8, Awards, 1987-2022, includes awards and honors received by Shange as well as related materials. Awards include the Barnard Medal of Honor and Woman of Achievement Award, an honorary degree from Oberlin College, a certificate of Special Congressional Recognition, and several city and state proclamations and citations in honor of Shange's work.

Series 10, Collected Written Works, Music, and Visual Art, 1913-2018, undated, includes selections from Shange's personal library from her home in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn (collected by Barnard archivists and Professor Kim Hall in 2014); as well as other texts, recorded music, and visual artwork collected by Shange. Many of the books and magazines from Shange's library speak directly to her interests and influences and are annotated; published works by Shange are also included here, particularly rare editions and copies with marginalia. In cases where notes, scraps of paper, receipts, book marks, etc. were in the texts, archivists have left said markers in place. A full inventory of the 400 books, magazines, and other texts from Shange's library included in this series is available. Unsolicited and seemingly unread manuscripts sent to Shange by others have been largely discarded, with the exception of works by close friends, family, and collaborators.