Michael Taylor
Assistant Curator of Books
mltaylor@lsu.edu
(225) 578-6547
Job Description
I supervise the acquisition of published materials for the Louisiana & Lower Mississippi Valley Collection and assist in developing the Rare Book and McIlhenny Natural History Collections. As a member of the reference team in Special Collections, I provide outreach and instruction to classes and the general public and develop instructional materials and collection guides. I curate two to four exhibitions per year. Since 2009, I have been a team member of the National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Digitizing Louisiana Newspapers Project, and have written brief histories of more than sixty newspapers for the project. I also write a quarterly column for the Civil War Book Review, highlighting "treasures" from LSU's Special Collections.
Education
MLS, Special Collections Librarianship (2007), Indiana University
MA, History (2007), Indiana University
BA, History and Linguistics (2004), Indiana State University
Independent Coursework (2009-11), Rare Book School, University of Virginia
History of Books and Printing Workshop (2006), Texas A&M University
