Kate is the Collection Management Systems Fellow. She is currently pursuing her Master’s in Information Science at the University of Michigan School of Information, specializing in Digital Curation. Favorite projects include creating a digital exhibit of photographs from Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, analyzing record data from George Washington University’s rare book collection, and developing a long-term digital curation plan for the Penn Treebank project. After graduation she hopes to work in the Digital Humanities field, managing digital collections, developing online exhibits, and facilitating computational humanities research.
Kate holds a Bachelor of Arts in Classical Language and Literature from the University of Michigan, where she wrote an undergraduate thesis on witches in ancient Roman literature. Before entering graduate school, Kate interned in Rome, Italy for a non-profit that promotes classical education. She currently works as a Curatorial Assistant at Michigan’s Papyrology Collection.
This summer, she will work with the Special Collections Library’s collection management system to clean up archival record data and create custom reports to gather statistics and analytics for the Atkins Library’s Special Collections.