Please join us in congratulating the CAA’s 2025 Member of the Year award winner Patti Gibbons! Award winners were announced at the CAA Annual Meeting on March 19.

Patti is currently the organizer of CAA’s Curating and Exhibitions Interest Group. Since she assumed leadership in 2022, she has been active in planning both in-person and virtual events for the group. Along with Carol Ng-He, Patti co-wrote the book Exhibits & Displays: A Practical Guide for Librarians, which came out in 2021. Recently, she launched a new initiative called "On View: Exhibition Announcement" in which she has encouraged CAA members to share information about current and upcoming exhibitions in libraries and archives to help increase the visibility of their work.

Patti is the Head of Collection Management and Exhibits at the University of Chicago's Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center. She’s been a member of CAA since 2020.