Nancy S. Allen

Director of Museum Relations

Nancy S. Allen is Director of Museum Relations for ARTstor. Ms. Allen is responsible for communicating ARTstor's mission and goals to the museum community both in the US and abroad, representing ARTstor within that professional community, and developing key components of ARTstor programs that can contribute to the mission of museums and advance the goals of ARTstor. In this capacity she helps identify and advance potential digital projects that are of interest to museums and that involve museum curators, collections managers and registrars, information resource specialists, and museum educators. ARTstor is committed to expanding and enhancing the authority of the cataloguing information associated with various ARTstor collections, and Ms. Allen plays a key role in designing strategies supporting this goal in partnership with museum information managers.

Before joining ARTstor, Ms. Allen served as the Susan Morse Hilles Director of Information Resources for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, a post she held since 1995. From 1977 to 1995, she served as the Museum's Chief Librarian. At the MFA she was responsible for building the collections information management system, launching the museum's website, and initiating the digital capture, storage, and retrieval of museum photography. She was director of the Giza Archives Project funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in June 2000 to build an electronic archive of the records from the Harvard/MFA expeditions in Egypt between 1905 and 1939. From 1983 to 1997, she also taught graduate courses in library and information sciences at Simmons College in Boston. Ms. Allen has served on the Board of Directors for the Research Libraries Group, the User Advisory Board of Gallery Systems, and the Executive Committee for the Art Museum Image Consortium. In 2003 she was given the Distinguished Service Award by the Art Libraries Society of North America.

Email: nancy.allen@artstor.org