Kathryn La Barre is an Associate Professor at the School of Information Sciences and Gender and Women’s Studies faculty affiliate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work interrogates the power dynamics of historical and contemporary naming practices in cultural heritage collections. A member of ASIST since 1998, she has served on the ASIST Board of Directors, as a Member of the 75th Anniversary task force, and as chair of the ASIST 80th Anniversary working group. She served as the first ASIST Curator from 2017-2020, helping to facilitate the oral history project ‘Leaders of Information Science Worldwide’ and conducting the first assessment of the archival holdings at ASIST headquarters.

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