Skip Stop Records, 2014-2024

Abstract:: This collection consists of materials from Skip Stop, a Barnard College student club for commuters.
Extent:: .15 Gigabytes (156 files)
Language:: English
Scope and content:: The records include training documents; foundational documents, such as a club constitution; administrative materials like meeting minutes; event planning materials; financial documents; special projects; and membership sign-up lists. This collection also includes other communications materials like mass emails, promotional fliers, and newsletters. This collection contains digital files. The bulk of the collection materials range from 2022-2024.
Biographical / historical:: Barnard College's student organization for commuters was named after the now-defunct #9 train (a.k.a. skip stop) which used to stop at 116th Street and Broadway. This group provides services to support commuter life at Barnard. Skip Stop hosts breakfasts, lunches, and snack breaks periodically in the Commuter Lounge. (Barnard College Website, June 2025).

Local call number:: BC37.44
Processing information:: In June 2025, Olivia Newsome processed this collection.
Acquisition information:: Transferred from a student club member, Aurelia Tan.
Arrangement:: The collection follows the original order upon receipt. This collection is arranged chronologically by academic semester. Additionally, the archivist completed high-level physical rearrangement to allow the digital materials to be easily integrated into a single system of arrangement. The archivist placed the digital documents, at the highest directory level, into a new folder with a new file name.
Accruals:: Additions are expected.
Physical location:: This collection is located in the Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library. To use this collection, please contact the Barnard Archives and Special Collections at 212.854.4079 or archives@barnard.edu.
Rules or conventions:: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Preferred citation:: Skip Stop Records, 2014-2024; Box and Folder; Barnard Archives and Special Collections, Barnard Library, Barnard College.

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms of access:

No permission is required for reproductions of materials in the public domain or uses that fall within fair use exemptions to copyright as defined under U.S. Copyright Law.

The copyright to the collection's materials is retained by the board of Skip Stop. This collection may also contain materials created by others. In order to reproduce these materials, permission from the Archives is not required, but it is researchers' responsibility to determine and obtain any necessary permissions related to copyright, privacy, publicity, or other rights.

Please see our Reproductions, Copyright, and Citing Archives page for more information and contact us at archives@barnard.edu with any questions.

Photocopies or scans may be made for research purposes.

Location of this collection:: Barnard Archives & Special Collections

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