Cathy Aster
Stanford University
Senior Digital Library Services Manager
Portland, OR
I am a senior service manager in
Digital Library Systems and Services (DLSS) at Stanford Libraries. In my role, I manage services, products and projects, and I also work as a product owner with software engineers, operations staff and designers for the digital library applications I help support. I am the service manager for Stanford’s
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Submission Program and
Spotlight at Stanford - our digital exhibit platform. In addition, I am the DLSS Liaison to the GIS team and for map projects in collaboration with staff from the
David Rumsey Map Center. I also manage numerous digital collection projects, in support of digitization and/or digital library content, preserving in the
Stanford Digital Repository and bringing to light collections in
SearchWorks and
Spotlight at Stanford. I am the
Product and Service Management team liaison to both the Libraries'
Preservation Department and the Science and Engineering Resource Group (SERG).