Please join the Museum Archives (MAS) and Science, Technology, and Health Care (STHC) sections on July 23rd from 11am-12:30pm (central) for our annual joint meeting. Following brief section business meetings, we'll hear from two speakers on the topic of incorporating archives into exhibits and leave plenty of time for questions.
Register to attend at the link below:
https://connect.archivists.org/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=c572a0ed-db97-421b-8ddc-01966ecc4ba6&Home=%2Fevents%2Fcalendar
More about the presentations:
Laura Weis, PhD, Project Archivist, Bernard Becker Medical Library, Washington University in St. Louis
- As part of a two-year, dedicated project, Laura has processed two substantial collections related to the history of biomedical computing at Washington University. In the Spring of 2025, she curated an exhibit that incorporated materials from these collections. Laura will share how she endeavored to convey both the breadth and depth of WashU's contributions to the evolution of computers in medicine, as well as how she approached communicating scientific, technological, and medical concepts to a non-specialist audience. She will also reflect on her experience collaborating with an external graphic designer to visualize the exhibit. Finally, she will briefly discuss how she developed a presentation related to, but not repeating, the exhibit's contents.
Abigail Guay, Crystal Bridges Art Museum, Director of Library and Archives
- Through an expansion slated for completion in summer 2026, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is doubling its physical footprint and reimagining all existing museum spaces-while staying open to the public. As part of a strategic vision and plan for the library and archives, Guay, whose role is new to the museum, has successfully advocated for the inclusion of library and archival collections materials (presented and interpreted using the same methods as artwork) in every permanent collection gallery, with the first new gallery, focusing on American art pre-1960, slated to open in July 2025. Concurrently, Guay's team has been working to implement an archival database and overhaul the department's spotty web resources, leading to a need for Guay to manually surface materials for curatorial consideration. Guay will walk us through the process, her collaboration with museum curators, and talk about lessons learned.
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Stephen Logsdon
Head of Archives, Bernard Becker Medical Library,
Washington University in Saint Louis
Saint Louis MO
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