Exhibitions

The RSABG Research Library houses a display case showcasing some of the library’s holdings, such as beautiful historic books, journals, photographs, and items from the Garden’s  archives.

Visitors to the library are treated to a changing display of items from its collections that depict how the library is supporting the educational mission of the garden.  

Displays have featured the Theodore Payne archives, wildflower books, orchids as art, neighborhood native plant gardens, and botanists Carl Linnaeus and Samuel Parish.

Conferences
With the library of the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden and the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, the library co-hosted the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries annual meeting from May 16 to 20, 2006. The conference theme was “Why you do the things you do!” Participants explored the necessity for botanical and horticultural library collections, particularly those located at botanic gardens and arboreta, as well as those at natural history collections and academic institutions.