Kate Thornhill
Digital Projects and Engagement Librarian
Assistant Librarian
Kate plans, executes, and finalizes digital scholarship projects and other digital initiatives in the Libraries. These initiatives include creation of instruction related tools, digital scholarship applications, digital collections, and digital systems implementation. She works across Library departments and with University wide clients to assess complex digital project requirements and provide quality technical solutions. She also provides consultation services to faculty, students, and staff who are interested in developing open digital research projects. Overall, Kate provides open digital scholarship project based leadership and direction to contribute to the University’s goals regarding equity and inclusion.
Office:
Knight Library 142
Mailing address:
1299 University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, Oregon 97403-1299
Kate earned her Masters of Library and Information Science at Simmons College, and a BA in Art History and a BFA in Photography from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Prior to working for UO Libraries Digital Scholarship Services, she worked at Oregon Health and Science University as the Interim Director of Curatorial Services and Repository Librarian and was a Research and Instruction Digital Scholarship Librarian at Lesley University's College of Art and Design Library. Kate's professional and research interests and include applying operational ethical open digital scholarship strategies that support user experience, digital pedagogy, digital preservation, library employee labor advocacy, and collaborating with colleagues to build and sustain digital exhibits and library publishing services and programs.
