The Museum of Modern Art has recently adopted the Libguide platform to continue to facilitate easier, more approachable research to our patrons. This presentation will describe MoMA’s approach to creating libguides to support both our library and archival researchers by uniting the two. Our collaborative and inaugural libguide explores the…[Read more]

This semester our library created a new space in our Library, the Mindfulness Corner. Created out of concern for student mental health following the pandemic, the space is intended as a welcoming space for students to study, destress, regain focus, receive comfort and positive affirmations, and practice mindfulness. I will explain how this project…[Read more]

This lightning talk will cover how visual literacy can help us view and use primary sources for research and teaching purposes. We will look at some of the issues when using visual materials, what visual literacy standards can be followed to avoid these issues, and how these interactive objects can tell the stories of people, places, and things.

In this lightning talk, I will discuss my experience in leading the social media content for two different libraries. In creating digital content for an art and design college library, we highlight different projects, events, and resources for the university’s community. On the other hand, digital content for a medical library centers on bringing…[Read more]

The Whitney Museum of American Art recently published a video series called Shelf Exploration to its social media feeds. The project, a collaboration between our library and digital media teams, was conceived as a way to feature staff work and collections outside the typical scope of our digital communications, and to harness the show-and-tell…[Read more]

Canadian contemporary dancer and choreographer Karen Jamieson, based in Vancouver, BC, is nationally recognized for her work in community-engaged dance and cross-cultural collaborations with Indigenous communities since the early 1990s. The works that came out of these close collaborative relationships, captured in the Karen Jamieson Dance (KJD)…[Read more]

This alphabetical guide was created to aid special collection catalogers at the Thomas J. Watson Library of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in assigning form/genre terms and other descriptive terminology to bibliographic records for artists’ books.