Guest Editorial: Embedded Libraries and Archives in Museums

Anne Evenhaugen is the head librarian for the Smithsonian’s American Art and Portrait Gallery Library. She manages the day-to-day operations of the large research library, which contains rare and unique books and a large ephemera collection. She is especially interested in the unique role that libraries and archives serve within museums. Anne holds advanced degrees in art history and library science from Mary Washington College, the University of Maryland and Stockholm University in Sweden.

Celia Emmelhainz is a Supervisory Anthropologist at the National Museum of Natural History in the Smithsonian Institution, where she oversees the collections and staff of the National Anthropological Archives and the Human Studies Film Archives. She previously worked as an academic librarian at the University of California, Berkeley, at Colby College, and at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan. Her research interests include the cultures of Post-Soviet Central Asia, information seeking in the social sciences, and career decision-making in libraries, archives, and museums.