ARLIS MLD Summer Pop-Up Talk "The Art of Museum Library Exhibitions"

Didn't get to join us in Montreal? The Museum Library Division is hosting the second of a series of summer virtual pop-up talks highlighting conference presentations.

Join Rebekah Boulton from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston for the presentation, “The Art of Museum Library Exhibitions: Combining Diverse Skills to Foster Creative Curation.”

In this presentation, Boulton will discuss her experience as a museum librarian working in a public-facing reading room. She curates exhibitions of library materials within the museum’s exhibitions program, hosts related public programming, and creates digital iterations of not only her exhibitions but all installations that are coordinated within the Hirsch Library. Like many librarians, Boulton came to this work with no formal exhibitions training and draws from her background in art history and library studies to consider all aspects of curation to be able to convey the meaning and merit of materials to audiences.