Biography

Kate Zwaard is the executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). She joined CNI from the Library of Congress (LC), where she served in various leadership roles from 2011 to 2025, including associate librarian for Discovery and Preservation Services, where she managed a $125 million annual budget and more than 600 staff members and led the Digital Services, Preservation, and Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorates.

Her previous positions at LC included supervisory information technology specialist for the Digital Repository Development team, chief of National Digital Initiatives, and director of digital strategy. Prior to LC, Kate led a development team responsible for the digital preservation and authentication data architecture at the US Government Publishing Office.

Kate has published and presented on topics such as software development and digital preservation. She has served with the ARL/CNI Joint Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Futures, the International Federation of Library Associations Information Technology Section, the National Digital Stewardship Alliance’s Standards and Practices Working Group, and the PREMIS Editorial Committee, which she chaired.