State of Art Museum Libraries, 2024

The State of Art Museum Libraries 2024 Task Force built on the foundational work presented in the State of Art Museum Libraries 2016 White Paper, which detailed the roles, issues, and challenges faced by art museum libraries in the United States. Now, five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, an event that has profoundly reshaped practices across the library field, the State of Art Museum Libraries 2024 report presents new research carried out by the task force that assessed the current state of museum libraries in the United States and Canada. 

The State of Art Museum Libraries 2024 report presents findings from the field level survey completed by 61 museum libraries and discusses key findings, including the evolving role of libraries within art museums, institutional support for museum libraries, staffing and hiring practices, work-life balance and workplace culture, the state of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, collection development and management, and emerging trends in user experience. The report's appendices include the task force's survey instrument, a list of art museum libraries that received the survey, and the survey data.

Read the full report in the ARLIS/NA Commons CORE Repository: https://doi.org/10.17613/e68z0-epj66.