Interview with Jennifer Martinez Wormser, formerly director of the library at the Laguna College of Art and Design, conducted in 2017. She talks about instruction, collections, and programming at an art and design school library.

The Williams College Museum of Art Collection Explorer is a simple, open-access platform featuring a fluid desktop browsing experience that connects art objects with interdisciplinary programs at Williams College.

How, where, and why do cities develop?” is the threshold question posed by Mapping a World of Cities, a freely-accessible, interactive timeline-based online exhibit of eighty-six maps documenting four centuries of city building across six continents. The project is a digital collaboration among ten United States map libraries and collections that,…[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]

Our poster engages a collaboration between Library Instruction and Black Studies/English, examining how we used an interdisciplinary pedagogy to create an environment where students understand themselves as contributors to the disciplines. Over the course of four years, the librarian came to the professor’s courses to provide scaffolded library i…[Read more]

In the words of the late scholar, critic, and artist, bell hooks, “though rarely articulated as such, the camera became in black life a political instrument, a way to resist misrepresentation as well as a means by which alternative images could be produced.” Black librarianship and memory work has been integral to preserving the evidence of thi…[Read more]

Many libraries hold rare book collections and they maintain and explore them with special attention, usually by following international standards. Over time, extensive knowledge has been accumulated about these books. However, the intensity of research on these collections can vary. My library’s rare book project presented here is based on the…[Read more]