Librarian as Curator

Abstract

The author shares how the weaving of multiple professional roles culminated in the creation of the Artist Bibliography Book Display, a display that features the research of artists exhibiting in the art department gallery that the art librarian co-directs. The article describes the development of the Artist Bibliography Book Display, discusses the artwork and bibliographies of select artists who exhibit in the space, analyzes the book display as a pedagogical tool in the teaching of research to art students through the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education, and discusses teaching with and the curating of books. [This article is an expansion of a paper presented at the ARLIS/NA Southeast Conference held in Tallahassee, Florida, in November 2019.]