Ken Soehner

Ken Soehner is the Arthur K. Watson Chief Librarian, Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan of Art. With a collection of more than one million volumes, the libraries at The Metropolitan Museum comprise one of the largest and most encyclopedic collections of research material relating to the history of art. Ken has been at the Met for 22 years. For the past fifteen years he has been Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt School of Library and Information Science, where he teaches classes on Art Librarianship and Museums & Library Research. He holds an M.A. in Art History from Columbia University and an M.S. from the same university’s School of Library Service. He is active in the Art Libraries Society of North America, serving as president in 2008-09 and he is a member of the Council at the Grolier Club, this country’s oldest society of bibliophiles.