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The kind of practical advice found here will be useful for any librarian hoping to create and curate exhibits or improve current ones. Advice by librarians, for librarians, is the best kind; I first became aware of Carol Ng-He's interest and expertise in library exhibits when she contributed a successful article to the ILA Reporter journal. These Illinois librarians have thought of everything exhibits so readers don't have to, from why and how, to promotion and programming around exhibits, to assessment. -- Diane Foote, executive director, Illinois Library Association What a generous and helpful book! Reminding their readers that libraries are free, public, and well-used, the authors point out that they are perfect places for exhibits about books and anything else that will excite and educate people. Not stopping there, the writers also suggest that everyone can learn to make wonderful displays and then proceed to offer guidance to exhibit development that will be useful in all settings. I love the book's vivid and approachable writing-'Underlining text is clunky and sort of 'screamy''-and direct messages-'Variety is energizing.' But best, to me, is its can-do attitude-Yes, you, make an exhibit!-and presumption that exhibit makers should be concerned with their audiences. Exhibits must engage, the authors assert. And their book is a good guide toward that goal. -- Therese Quinn, director, Museum and Exhibition Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Carol Ng-He is the exhibits coordinator at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library in Illinois since 2017. She founded the Curating and Exhibitions Interest Group under the Chicago Area Archivists (CAA), a volunteer-based nonprofit organization dedicated to providing educational and social opportunities for archivists, librarians, historians and other individuals in the Chicagoland area. At a national level, she coordinates the Exhibitions Special Interest Group and serves on the Education Subcommittee at the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA). Her recent publications includeExhibits for All: Fostering a Creative Culture for Community Growth in ILA Reporter, and a chapter on library exhibitions and exhibition spaces in a forthcoming edited book The New Art Museum Library (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020). Carol has written articles on art and museum education in the Journal of Museum Education, Teaching Artist Journal, and Visual Inquiry. Carol holds an MA in art education from the School of the Art Institute is Chicago and a certificate in museum studies from Northwestern University. Currently she is pursuing an MLIS degree at San Jose State University. Patti Gibbons has nearly three decades of experience preserving cultural heritage materials, developing exhibitions, and registering loans in library and museum settings. Currently she is the head of collection management at the University of Chicago Library’s Special Collections Research Center and oversees the exhibition program in their 2,400-square-foot gallery that she designed in 2010. She holds an MA in museum studies from the University of Washington and an MS in library and information science from the University of Illinois, with graduate certificates in special collections librarianship and philanthropy & nonprofit administration. Ms. Gibbons is the author of the book The Modern Kiteflier, and she has published several chapters and articles on exhibition best practices, book preservation, and library science topics in textbooks and professional journals, and she is the editor of the “Special Libraries, Special Challenges” column in the Public Services Quarterly journal.

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