Lynne Farrington is Director of Programs/Senior Curator, Special Collections, in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, where she has served in various special collections roles since 1992. At Penn, she has been responsible for the acquisition of a wide range of collections, including Japanese illustrated books and prints; archives of photographers, authors, and artists; culinary and children’s books and manuscripts; and the history of American subscription publishing. She has curated numerous exhibitions; organized lectures, conferences, and symposia; and run major grant-funded projects like Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy. She oversees the annual A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography and is currently involved with programming at Penn around the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026. She serves on the Board of Directors of A Book a Day, which engages the arts to promote literacy among underserved and diverse communities, and is currently Vice President of Philadelphia’s bibliophilic organization, the Philobiblon Club.
