AUTHOR: Kate Zwaard

Kate Zwaard is associate librarian for Discovery & Preservation Services at the Library of Congress. She was previously chief of National Digital Initiatives for the Library, where she led a group focused on digital innovation and expanding the use of the digital collections. Before that, she managed the Digital Repository Development team, contributing leadership, code and a passion for the mission of the agency. Under her technical direction, the Library of Congress ingested three petabytes (equivalent to 3 million gigabytes) of digital collections, including web archives, the first born-digital manuscript collections, 10 million Chronicling America newspaper pages and three-fourths of a trillion tweets. Before coming to the Library of Congress, Zwaard led the development team responsible for the digital preservation and authentication data architecture at the U.S. Government Publishing Office. She comes to public services from a quantitative research and community banking background. Zwaard has chaired the PREMIS Editorial Committee and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance's Standards and Practices Working Group. She has written and spoken widely on topics ranging from software development to digital preservation.

Most Recent Posts

• Announcing the Library of Congress Congressional Data Challenge October 19th, 2017
• Collections as Data and National Digital Initiatives August 3rd, 2017
• Emoji, Texting and Social Media: How Do They Impact Language? July 12th, 2017
• Identity Crisis: The Reality of Preparing MLS Students for a Competitive and Increasingly Digital World April 14th, 2017
• Software Carpentry at the Library of Congress April 3rd, 2017
• Collecting Digital Content at the Library of Congress March 21st, 2017
• NDI Talk at Collections as Data October 12th, 2016
• Collections as Data Tomorrow September 26th, 2016