ARLIS/NA 53rd Annual Conference

Gwen Mayhew has been the head of collection access at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal since 2019. She leads a fabulous team of reference librarians, cataloguers and a circulation assistant, all of whom are focused on facilitating both onsite and remote access to the CCA’s vast collection of archives, prints, drawings, photographs and library materials. Prior to that, she spent ten years working at the Thomas J. Watson Library in the Metropolitan Museum of Art where she focused on volunteer instruction, ILL and reference. She holds an MLS from Queens College, an MA in Art and Museum Studies from Georgetown University and a BFA in art history from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. In her spare time, she’s co-chairing the 2026 ARLIS/NA conference in Montreal.