Kate Blalack

Kate Blalack, MHR, MLIS, CA, DAS, is a Librarian and Associate Faculty member at the University of Notre Dame’s Hesburgh Libraries, where she provides strategic leadership for institutional repositories, digital collections, and digital exhibits. A Certified Archivist and Digital Archives Specialist, she has more than 20 years of experience across academic libraries, archives, museums, and cultural heritage organizations. Her work focuses on digital curation, archival science, digital preservation, artificial intelligence, metadata and discovery, and the stewardship of born-digital and digitized cultural heritage.

Kate’s interdisciplinary approach connects technical and archival practice with questions of people, communities, access, ethics, and information behavior. She teaches and mentors students and emerging professionals and is particularly interested in preserving context, provenance, meaning, and long-term access to scholarly and cultural materials. She currently serves on the Digital Public Library of America’s Rights Statements Working Group and the ASIS&T Publications Committee and has held elected and appointed roles in national and international professional organizations.