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Director of the MBLWHOI Library
Since the late eighties Cathy has been involved in building the network infrastructure for the laboratory and the electronic library that serves affiliates world wide via high-speed networks. She has served as principal investigator on an Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant for building a virtual library; an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant for building taxonomic information services, tools and communities; NIH contract for outreach in Medical Informatics; NOAA and USGS contracts for library services and a Sea Grant for digitizing the Woods Hole herbarium collection.
In education, she has developed a paperless course in Medical Informatics that delivers the resources and lectures online for students. Currently she serves as the chair of the digitization committee for the Boston Library Consortium as well as serving on the executive committee. Cathy has also been elected to serve on Members' Council for the Online Computer Library Center and has a 3-year appointment to the Literature Technical Advisory Committee at the National Library of Medicine. She helped form a new consortium of Research Libraries and Museums with Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, New York Botanical Gardens, American Museum of Natural History, Cold Spring Harbors Laboratory, Rockefeller University and the MBLWHOI Library.
The MBLWHOI library is vice-chairman of the BioDiversity Heritage Library, a cornerstone of the Encyclopedia of Life, which has a large-scale effort underway to digitize taxonomic literature. She has hosted, lectured, and organized meetings for the NERCOMP Computer Groups and the International Association for Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers. The digital library initiatives have focused Cathy's interests into modernizing the literature using taxonomic name servers and building communities of stakeholders. Her office is physically located in the Archive and Records Management Section of the Laboratory and her interests in this area have grown substantially because of the new standards, laws, and compliance issues surrounding this resource.
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