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Kathryn oversees research, instruction, and outreach programs for the Fisher Fine Arts Library. As a subject specialist, she is available for reference questions and research consultations on the contemporary and historical aspects of art, architecture, city and regional planning, historic preservation, landscape architecture, studio art, and urban spatial analytics. Kathryn also facilitates the 3D scanning services offered by the Fisher Fine Arts Library. 

Before arriving at Penn, Kathryn worked as an Instruction and Outreach Librarian at the University of Iowa, in a role split between the university’s Stanley Museum of Art and the library’s Special Collections & Archives department. She was an Adrianne Arsht intern in the Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and got her start in museums and libraries through a Getty Multicultural Undergraduate Internship in Special Collections at the Getty Research Institute. Kathryn earned her BA in History from California State University, Long Beach and her MLIS and a MA in History from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she was an Advanced Opportunity Program Fellow. 

Kathryn Reuter