Kate Zwaard Publications, Presentations, Interviews

A collection of selected talks, interviews, publications, and earned media from CNI Executive Director Kate Zwaard, prior to her appointment with CNI.

Selected Talks/interviews

• Zwaard, Kate. “An Exponential Approach to Innovation.” Opening keynote presented at the Northeast Regional Computing Program annual conference, virtual, 2021.
• Zwaard, Kate.“Collections as Data: Combining Data Science and the Power of Library Collections to Unlock New Understanding.” Invited lecture presented at the Science Sundays lecture series, The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences, Columbus, OH, March 1, 2020.
• Zwaard, Kate. “Innovation and Digital Strategy at the Library of Congress.” Invited lecture presented at the Dr. Elizabeth W. Stone Lecture Series, Department of Library and Information Science, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, April 26, 2019.
• Zwaard, Kate. “Digital Strategy at the Library of Congress.” Staff presentation delivered at LC’s Digital Future and You lecture series, Washington, DC, November 5, 2018.
• Zwaard, Kate. “Digital Commons at the Library of Congress.” Keynote presented at the GLAM-Wiki Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2018.
• Zwaard, Kate. “Grand Challenges Keynote: Kate Zwaard.” Opening keynote presented at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries Grand Challenges Summit, Cambridge, MA, March 19, 2018.
• Zwaard, Kate. “Carved out of Marble by Revolutionaries.” Invited lecture presented at the Eyeo Festival, Minneapolis, MN, 2018.
• Zwaard, Kate. “Innovation: Transforming Government of and by the People.” Panelist at the National Archives and Records Administration Sunshine Week, Washington, DC, March 12, 2018.
• Zwaard, Kate. “Closing Fireside Chat.” Speaker at the Digital Citizen Summit, Government Executive, Washington, DC, 2018.
• Zwaard, Kate. “Going Forward.” Panelist at the IMLS National Digital Platform at Three Forum, Washington, DC, 2018.
• Zwaard, Kate. “Collections as Data.” Speaker at the National Book Festival, Washington, DC, 2017.
• Zwaard, Kate. “Collections as Data.” Opening speaker at Collections as Data: Impact symposium, Library of Congress, Washington DC, 2017.
• Zwaard, Kate. “Introducing National Digital Initiatives.” Opening speaker at Collections as Data: Stewardship and Use Models to Enhance Access symposium, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 2016.
• Zwaard, Kate. “Technology and Community: Why We Need Partners, Collaborators, and Friends.” Keynote presented at Dodging the Memory Hole, Los Angeles, CA, October 13, 2016.
• Zwaard, Kate. “Preserving & Providing Access to Electronic Federal Publications.” Invited lecture presented at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, November 16, 2010.

Selected Publications

• Lee, Benjamin Charles Germain, Jaime Mears, Eileen Jakeway, Meghan Ferriter, Chris Adams, Nathan Yarasavage, Deborah Thomas, Kate Zwaard, and Daniel S. Weld. “The Newspaper Navigator Dataset: Extracting and Analyzing Visual Content from 16 Million Historic Newspaper Pages in Chronicling America.” In Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ’20), 2020. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2005.01583.
• Ferriter, Meghan, Kate Zwaard, Elaine Kamlley, Rosie Storey, Chris Adams, Jaime Bresner, Lauren Algee, Victoria Van Hyning, and David Brunton. “‘With One Heart’: Agile Approaches for Developing Concordia and Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress.” Code4Lib Journal, no. 46 (November 2019). https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/14901.
• Jakeway, Eileen, Lauren Algee, Laurie Allen, Meghan Ferriter, Jaime Mears, Abigail Potter, and Kate Zwaard. Machine Learning + Libraries Summit Event Summary, February 13, 2020.
• Zwaard, Kate, Moryma Aydelott, David Brunton, Melissa Crawford, Abbie Grotke, Nicole Marcou, Jaime Mears, Jared Nagel, Abigail Potter, Michelle Rago, Steve Short, and J. Mark Sweeney. “Institution as Social Media Collector: Lessons Learned from the Library of Congress.” IFLA Proceedings, 2018.
• Zwaard, Kate, and Lisa LaPlant. Authenticity of Electronic Federal Government Publications, June 13, 2011.
• Landgraf, Matthew, Kate Zwaard, Robin Haun-Mohamed, and James Mauldin. “Digital Preservation Framework, Goals, and Challenges at the U.S. Government Printing Office.” Proceedings of the 2010 Roadmap for Digital Preservation Interoperability Framework Workshop, March 29–31, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1145/2039274.2039280.
• Baldwin, Gil, Matthew Landgraf, Kate Zwaard, and John Faure. “Content Packaging Approach for a Large OAIS Repository.” Proceedings of Archiving, January 2007. https://doi.org/10.2352/issn.2168-3204.2007.4.1.art00012.

Selected Earned Media

• “Opinion: The Library of Congress Is a Surprising Lesson in Digital Government. That’s Good News for Democracy.” Washington Post, June 28, 2021. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/28/library-congress-is-surprising-lesson-digital-government-thats-good-news-democracy/.
• Castellanos, Sara. “Library of Congress Looks to AI to Help Users Sift Through Its Collection.” Wall Street Journal, June 24, 2021. https://www.wsj.com/articles/library-of-congress-looks-to-ai-to-help-users-sift-through-its-collection-11624552197.
• Boyd, Aaron. “Library of Congress Will Put $15M Grant Toward Minority-Focused Digital Futures Program.” NextGov, January 27, 2021. https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2021/01/library-congress-will-put-15m-grant-toward-minority-focused-digital-futures-program/171673/.
• McGlone, Peggy. “Library of Congress Gets $15 Million to Diversify Partners, Collections.” Washington Post, January 26, 2021. https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/library-of-congress-diversity-grant/2021/01/26/f4721430-5fe9-11eb-afbe-9a11a127d146_story.html.
• Gossett, Stephen. “Inside the Machine Learning Effort to Organize the Library of Congress Digital Collection.” Built In, November 1, 2020. https://builtin.com/machine-learning/library-congress.
• Shoop, Tim. “These 12 Exemplary Feds Led Hurricane Response, Coronavirus Vaccine Research and Much More.” Government Executive, October 9, 2020. https://www.govexec.com/management/2020/10/these-12-exemplary-feds-led-hurricane-response-coronavirus-vaccine-research-and-much-more/169091/.
• Foo, Brian, and Rachel Martin. “Library of Congress Unveils Open-Source Sampling Tool Called DJ Citizen.” Produced by NPR. Morning Edition, April 30, 2020. Podcast, 01:51. https://www.npr.org/2020/04/30/848179339/library-of-congress-unveils-open-source-sampling-tool-called-dj-citizen.
• Byck, Daniella. “The Library of Congress Is Rolling Out a Massive Collection of Clips for DJs.” Washingtonian, April 24, 2020. https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/04/24/the-library-of-congress-is-rolling-out-an-massive-collection-of-clips-for-djs/.
• Messman, Lauren. “Library of Congress Unveils New Digital DJ Tool.” New York Times, April 24, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/arts/music/library-of-congress-digital-dj.html.
• Zwaard, Kate. “Who Decides What Will Go into the Library of Congress?” Forbes, May 21, 2019. https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2019/05/21/who-decides-what-will-go-into-the-library-of-congress/?sh=53bca96d8a79.
• Zwaard, Kate. “Will the Library of Congress Ever Become Available Online?” Forbes, May 20, 2019. https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2019/05/20/will-the-library-of-congress-ever-become-available-online/?sh=26432063230e.
• Landgraf, Greg. “A New Digital Strategy for America’s Library.” American Libraries Magazine, March 1, 2019. https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2019/03/01/new-digital-strategy-americas-library-of-congress/.
• Goldstein, Phil. “Library of Congress Uses Scanning and Storage Tech to Bring Rosa Parks’s Story to Life.” FedTech Magazine, February 25, 2019. https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2019/02/library-congress-uses-scanning-and-storage-tech-bring-rosa-parkss-story-life.
• Chappellet-Lanier, Tajha. “LOC Website Visitors Can Now Reap the Rewards of the Library’s Crowdsourcing Labors.” Fedscoop, January 22, 2019. https://www.fedscoop.com/loc-crowdsourcing-transcription-update/.
• Temin, Tom, and Kate Zwaard. “Library of Congress Pushing Digitization over Next 5 Years.” Federal Drive, December 12, 2018. Podcast. https://federalnewsnetwork.com/tom-temin-federal-drive/2018/12/library-of-congress-pushing-digitization-over-next-5-years/.
• Tully-McManus, Katherine. “Digital Future Laid Out in Library of Congress 5-Year Blueprint.” Roll Call, October 2, 2018. https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/digital-future-laid-out-in-library-of-congress-5-year-blueprint.
• Bur, Jessie. “Students Win Top Prizes in Congressional Data Challenge.” Federal Times, June 20, 2018. https://www.federaltimes.com/it-networks/2018/06/20/students-win-top-prizes-in-congressional-data-challenge/.
• Carnes, Ben, and Kate Zwaard. “When Gov Goes Modern.”  FEDTalk, November 17, 2017. https://www.fedmanager.com/columns/hear-it-on-fedtalk/2890-this-week-on-fedtalk-when-gov-goes-modern.
• Temin, Tom, and Kate Zwaard. “Library of Congress Grows Digital Collection.” Federal Drive, October 13, 2017. Podcast. https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-drive/2017/10/kate-zwaard-library-of-congress-grows-digital-collection/.