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Kathryn Stine Staff Profile

Kathryn Stine

Program / Service

Publishing, Archives, and Digitization

Job Title

Senior Product Manager, Digitization and Digital Content

Responsibilities

Kathryn Stine manages the Digitization and Digital Content team at the California Digital Library, which coordinates UC Libraries’ mass digitization with Google and participation with HathiTrust, a collaborative of academic and research libraries that provides a preservation and access platform for digitized print collections. Kathryn convenes UC affinity groups to make the most of systemwide engagement with HathiTrust, including the UC Hathirust Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS) Liaisons, and is responsible for defining, leading, and implementing a variety of digital collection development initiatives on behalf of the CDL. She has also worked to coordinate web archiving projects, with a collaborative, cross-CDL team in pursuing strategies and identifying opportunities for large scale digitization of UC library non-book collections, and as a consultant to the UC Berkeley Library’s Digital Lifecycle Program.

Kathryn often leads and contributes to UC systemwide projects including as project manager for UC’s HathiTrust ETAS assessment and through her former roles as a member of the UC Libraries Linked Data and Metadata Policy Project Teams, as project manager to the Regional Library Facilities Systems and Workflows Project Team, and as chair of the Web Archiving CKG. She is an active member of the HathiTrust Digital Collections Strategy Working Group.

Education

MSI (Archives and Records Management, Museum Studies), University of Michigan

MFA (Mixed Media/Printmaking), University of Michigan

BA (Art Practice), University of California, Berkeley

Background

Prior to her current role, Kathryn led a team of developers and analysts in the Discovery and Delivery program area who maintain and enhance Zephir, a metadata management system designed and implemented by the CDL for the HathiTrust Digital Library. She also worked closely with operations and leadership staff and advisory groups at HathiTrust to prioritize metadata management development work in support of HathiTrust system functions affecting resource preservation, discovery, and access.

Kathryn has a background in managing digital resources and the metadata that describe them in a range of contexts, including work with digitized print collections, oral history media, visual resources, and archives and special collections. She has previously held positions at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she was University Archivist and Manuscripts Librarian, and at UC Berkeley. She has managed and contributed to several metadata migration and cataloging interface design projects and has expertise in modeling, designing, and implementing processing and cataloging workflows, coordinating diverse metadata streams, developing metadata policy to promote access and use, and deploying metadata to help researchers uncover relationships between resources.

Professional Interests

  • responsible access for digital collections
  • collection analysis
  • library service assessment 
  • metadata (policy, management, research use)
  • digital humanities