Abstract
Museums and libraries are essential to society, often separated yet inexorably intertwined. My research applies library science theories of gatekeeping to the curatorial context. I recast the curator as a gatekeeper as they weave our stories through curatorial voice. I incorporate the curator voices of five national US museums: the 9/11 Memorial Museum, the Arab American National Museum, the Wing Luke Museum, the Japanese American Museum, and the National Center for Civil & Human Rights. Listen to our curators and their application of LIS gatekeeping theory to their work. Their incredible and thoughtful voices illuminate a practice, the creation curatorial voice, and interpret it through LIS gatekeeping theory. Once thought invisible and impossible to study, curatorial voice is revealed.
Presenters
Laura-Edythe ColemanProfessor and Director, Responsible Cultural Leadership Graduate Certificate, Arts Administration and Museum Leadership, Drexel University, Pennsylvania, United States
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
Gatekeeping, Curators, Curatorial Voice, Library and Information Science, LIS
