Further Information:
cal@eller.arizona.edu
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Cathy
Larson
is currently Associate Director of the Artificial
Intelligence Lab and an Associate Research Scientist
in the MIS Department, University of Arizona. She
received her B.A. from the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, with majors in Spanish and
Anthropology and a minor in Portuguese. Graduation
was followed by a stint in the Peace Corps, studying
agricultural extension strategies in Costa Rica
then serving in Ecuador. She received her M.S. in
Library and Information Science from UIUC. Following
the award of her M.S., she went to the University
of Iowa Library, to serve first as Media Bibliographer
(1987), then as Head of the Library's first Preservation
Department (1990), with responsibilities in managing
grant-funded microfilming projects. A desire to
move to the Southwest and an interest in team-based
organizations led to her appointment in 1994 as
the Fine Arts/Humanities Team Leader at the University
of Arizona Library. In 1998, she became the UA Library's
first Data Services Librarian, with responsibilities
in planning and implementing data services programs
and digital library projects. |
