Scholarship and Work of Megan Lotts

Megan Lotts is the Art Librarian at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where she embraces creativity and play when teaching, building collections, engaging with colleagues, working with patrons’, and facilitating programming and events across the New Brunswick campuses. Lotts has presented her research both nationally and internationally and has published articles in portal: the Libraries and the Academy, Art Documentation, Journal of Library administration, College and Research Libraries News and more. In 2021 the American Libraries Association published her first book Advancing a Culture of Creativity in Libraries: Programming and Engagement and her second book The Playful Library: Building Environments for Learning & Creativity was published in September of 2024. Her research interests include creativity, outreach & engagement, makerspaces, play, and the work of library liaisons. Megan earned her MFA (2004) and MLIS (2007) from University of Wisconsin-Madison and has a BFA in Painting (2000) and BFA in Art History (2002) from the University of Illinois- Champaign-Urbana.  She currently lives in New Brunswick, NJ and continues to create site-specific projects and conceptual works of art.