Megan Rosenbloom

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Collection Strategies Librarian
  • Collection Management and Scholarly Communication

Biography

Megan Curran Rosenbloom is Collection Strategies Librarian at UCLA Library in Los Angeles. Megan served as a medical librarian for many years, where she developed a keen interest in collections management, history of medicine and rare books.

Her bestselling debut book about the historical practice of anthropodermic bibliopegy (binding books in human skin), titled Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin, was a New York Times Editors Choice, won the 2021 LAMPHHS Best Monograph Award and has been published in four languages so far. In a former life she was a journalist in Philadelphia and continues to write for both academic and non-academic publications.

Publications

  • Thompson AM, Thompson HJ, Jones M, Rosenbloom MC. One Website to Rule them All: Lessons Learned from a Series of Reorganizations, Integrations, and Creation of One University Libraries’ Website from Three. Jrnl Elec Res Med Libr. 2021 Dec 14.
  • Rosenbloom MC. The Books are Alive with Biological Data: An Introduction to the Field of
    Biocodicology and its Implications for Historical Health Sciences Collections. Journal of the Medical Library Association. 2021 Apr; 109(2): 314–317. PMCID: PMC8270372 PMC: 7069826 DOI: 10.5195/jmla.2021.1080(opens in a new tab)
  • Rosenbloom MC. Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020.

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