162 - Fashion librarianship feat. Steph Noell

About this episode

The episode discusses the intersection of fashion and librarianship with guest Steph Noell.

This week we’re joined by Steph to talk about fashion and librarianship: how it works, how they intersect, and how fashion is interdisciplinary. We also learn about how you get into this gig! Media mentionedGood general article: Frederiksen, Linda. “Fashion by Design.” Library Journal, vol. 131, no. 10, June 2006, pp. 79–81. EBSCOhost, research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=297645b9-2580-3b4f-bdae-8ee2344a2633. Costume Institute article: Kazmi, Sahar. “A CENTURY OF FASHION: Library Collections Reflect the Evolution of 20th-Century American Style.” Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 13, no. 1, Jan. 2024, pp. 14–19. EBSCOhost, https://www.loc.gov/lcm/pdf/LCM_2024_0102.pdf ARLIS article: King, Lindsay M., and Russell T. Clement. “Style and Substance: Fashion in Twenty-First-Century Research Libraries.” Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, vol. 31, no. 1, Mar. 2012, pp. 93–107. EBSCOhost, doi.org/10.1086/664912 Library Journal's September By The Numbers focused on fashion libraries: “Fashion and Beauty.” American Libraries, vol. 56, no. 9/10, Sept. 2025, p. 11 https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/09/02/by-the-numbers-fashion-and-beauty/…

People in this episode

Host: librarypunk

Guest: Steph Noell

Topics covered

• fashion
• librarianship
• interdisciplinary studies
• media
• collections
• 20th-century style

Keywords

• fashion librarianship
• interdisciplinary
• media mentioned
• library collections
• 20th-century fashion

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Library Journal, Library of Congress Magazine, Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, American Libraries

Books & works: Fashion by Design, A CENTURY OF FASHION: Library Collections Reflect the Evolution of 20th-Century American Style, Style and Substance: Fashion in Twenty-First-Century Research Libraries, Fashion and Beauty

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