Kate

Thornhill

Kate Thornhill (she/her/hers) has worked at the University of Oregon Libraries since 2018, and teaches digital libraries and digitization for the University of Denver's Library and Information Science online masters degree program. She received her masters degree in library and information science from Simmons University in 2013. Throughout her career, she has been devoted to developing and sustaining digital services as a hybrid between a librarian, archivist, and web technologist. Her specializations are digital library services and research communications systems development, cultural hertiage digital library community management, creating and maintaining digital humanities projects, and teaching digital competencies that enhance classroom and research experiences. Prior to 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.

Curriculum Vitae: Kate's CV

Highlighted Research Projects, Partnerships, Presentations, and Publications

• PlacePress, a new WordPress plugin for publishing location-based tours and stories. A collaboration with Cleveland State Univerity Public History and Digital Humanities Center
• The Role of Service Managers in Redeveloping Oregon Digital, a partnership with Oregon State University Libraries & Press
• Power & Respect: Giving Intellectual Property Rights Back to Vulnerable Communities, Visual Resources Association 2021 presentation
• Accepted Forthcoming Digital Humanities Quarterly Article: Afro-Indigenous Women Healers in the Caribbean and Its Diasporas: A Decolonial Digital Humanities Project by Alai Reyes-Santos, Ana-Maurine Lara, and Kathryn Thornhill