SDSU University Library
Kate Holvoet

Kate Holvoet (She/Her)

Scholarly Communication and Open Initiatives Librarian

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Academic Rank: Associate Librarian; Tenured
(619) 594-1530
kholvoet@sdsu.edu

Office: Love Library 108L
University Library,
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive,
San Diego, CA 92182-8050

Biography

I am the Scholarly Communication and Open Initiatives Librarian at San Diego State University. My interests are supporting faculty open access publishing, open educational resources, and government documents.

Professional History
  • Scholarly Communication and Open Initiatives Librarian, 2022—Present
    University Library, San Diego State University
  • Electronic Resources Librarian, 2017—2022
    University Library, San Diego State University
  • Electronic Resources Librarian, 2015—2016
    Library and Learning Commons, Zayed University - Abu Dhabi Campus
  • Learning Commons Supervisor, 2013—2015
    Library and Learning Commons, Zayed University - Abu Dhabi Campus
  • Head of Online Services, 2009—2013
    Marriott Library, University of Utah

  • Head, Government Documents and Microforms, 2004—2009
    Marriott Library, University of Utah
  • International Documents Librarian, 2000—2004
    Marriott Library, University of Utah
  • State and Local Documents Librarian, 1998—2000
    Green Library, Florida International University
Education
  • M.A. in Library and Information Science, University of Iowa, 1997—1998
  • B.A. in Studio Art, Univeristy of Iowa, 1990—1994
Service
  • Library Senator, 2022—2025
    University Senate, San Diego State University
Memberships
  • Lifetime, 2018—Present
    American Library Association
Grants
  • SDSU Sustainability Institutional and Educational Materials Repository, San Diego State University, 2026-2026, 6,913 USD
  • California State Affordable Learning Solutions (ALS) Grant, California State University Chancellor's Office, 2025-2026, 8,750 USD
  • California State Affordable Learning Solutions (ALS) Grant, California State University Chancellor's Office, 2024-2025, 8,750 USD
  • Using AI Models to Catalog California State Documents, San Diego State University, 2024-2025, 7,500 USD
  • California State Affordable Learning Solutions (ALS) Grant, California State University Chancellor's Office, 2022-2023, 14,000 USD
  • California State Affordable Learning Solutions (ALS) Grant, California State University Chancellor’s Office, 2021-2022, 15,000 USD
  • California State Affordable Learning Solutions (ALS) Grant, California State University Chancellor's Office, 2020-2021, 15,000 USD
  • California State Affordable Learning Solutions (ALS) Grant, California State University Chancellor's Office, 2019-2020, 15,000 USD
  • California State Assembly Bill (AB) 798 College Textbook Affordability Act of 2015 Grant, California State University Chancellor's Office, 2018-2020, 49,000 USD

Scholarship

Academic Publications

Trends in digital newspaper discovery: a natural experiment
Cribbs, H.; Heather Cribbs; Gabriel J. Gardner; Gardner, G.J.; Kate Holvoet; Katherine G. Holvoet
Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2021, journal article
TAKING YOUR MLIS ABROAD: Getting and Succeeding in an International Library Job
Phillips, L.S.; Kate Holvoet
Taking Your Mlis Abroad Getting and Succeeding in an International Library Job, 2016, book
Satisfaction Guaranteed -- A System of Asynchronous Desire
Kate Holvoet
Against the Grain, 2008, journal article
What Is RSS and How Can Libraries Use It to Improve Patron Service?
Katherine Holvoet; Kate Holvoet
Library Hi Tech News, 2006, journal article
Is Access to Government Information Getting Better or Worse?
Kate Holvoet
Against the Grain, 2006, journal article

Academic Conferences

Can you get quality descriptive metadata for electronic state documents using large language models?
Nerissa Lindsey; Greta Heng; Kate Holvoet
ALA CORE Conference, 2025, conference presentation
Can you get quality descriptive metadata for electronic State Documents using Large Language Learning Models?
Kate Holvoet; Greta Heng; Nerissa Lindsey
Core Forum 2025, 2025, conference presentation
Lowering the stakes: A strategy for kickstarting qualitative research for students and investigators.
Connor Franklin Rey; Kate Holvoet; Lucy Campbell; Rebecca Nowicki; Keven Jeffery
16th International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries Conference Proceedings, 2025, conference paper
Qualitative Research Made Easy: Implementing the Pub(lic) Opinion Crawl in Your Library.
Connor Franklin Rey; Kate Holvoet; Lucy Campbell; Rebecca Nowicki; Keven Jeffery
17th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference, 2025, conference paper
This Performance Review is F*cked: Librarian Peer Review through the Lens of Sociomateriality
Kate Holvoet; Rebecca Nowicki; Lux Darkbloom; Dale Larsen; Crystal Goldman
Empirical Librarians Conference, 2025, conference presentation

Maximizing Student Participation in Library Research and Assessment
Kate Holvoet; Lucy Campbell; Rebecca Nowicki; Keven Jeffery
American Association for the Advancement of Science Pacific Division (AAAS-PD) Conference, 2024, conference paper
Enhancing Cataloging of Electronic Government Documents with Programming and OpenAI
Kate Holvoet; Greta Heng; Nerissa Lindsey
Code4Lib, 2024, conference presentation
You Bring the Peanut Butter; I’ll Bring the Chocolate: Collaboration That Just Makes Sense
Kate Holvoet
Textbook Affordability Conference 2023, 2023, conference presentation
Can OpenAI Be Taught to Catalog?
Kate Holvoet; Greta Heng; Nerissa Lindsey
American Library Association Annual Conference, 2023, conference poster
Can we teach OpenAI to catalog?
Nerissa Lindsey; Greta Heng; Kate Holvoet
American Library Association Conference, 2023, conference poster
Advancing Faculty OER “Drive”: A Faculty Roadmap of Recommended “Stops” for Success
Kate Holvoet; Dino Bozonelos; Trudi Radtke; Shelli Wynants
CAL OER 2022, 2022, conference presentation
Impactful Conversations: Engaging Instructors with Information Literacy, Open Pedagogy, and Open Educational Resources During the Global Shift to Online Learning
Kate Holvoet; Rebecca Nowicki
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions 2022 World Library and Information Congress, 2022, conference poster
You Got OER in My Information Literacy - You Got Info Lit in My OER: Teaching Instructors to Embrace Library Lead Initiatives
Kate Holvoet; Rebecca Nowicki
2022 American Library Association Annual Conference, 2022, conference poster
You got OER in my Information Literacy, You got Info Lit in my OER, Teaching instructors to embrace library lead initiatives
Kate Holvoet; Rebecca Nowicki
American Library Association Annual Conference, 2022, conference poster
Improve Access to Online Government Documents During COVID-19: A Collaborative Approach
Kate Holvoet; Michael Howser
Western State Government Information Virtual Conference, 2020, conference presentation
Building Better Discovery: Using Data to Optimize the User Experience with Mediated Search Results.
Kate Holvoet; Rebecca Nowicki; Keven Jeffery
2020 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition, 2020, conference poster
Evaluating the Impact of the Newspaper Search Scope: A Natural Experiment
Kate Holvoet; Gabriel Gardner; Heather Cribbs
ELUNA California User Group (eCAUG) 2020, 2020, conference presentation
Building Better Discovery: Using Data to Optimize the User Experience with Mediated Search Results
Kate Holvoet; Keven Jeffery; Rebecca Nowicki
ALA Virtual Conference, 2020, conference presentation
Pub(lic) Opinion Crawl: Lowering Barriers for Qualitative Library Assessment
Kate Holvoet; Rebecca Nowicki
12th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference, 2020, conference paper
In the Future, Will Everyone Read Newspapers for 15 Minutes? : A Natural Experiment
Kate Holvoet; Gabriel Gardner; Heather Cribbs
Ex Libris Users North America (ELUNA) 2020, 2020, conference presentation
The Internet says the darndest things: A textbook and a toolkit for fighting fake news
Kate Holvoet; Rebecca Nowicki; Chris Werry
Mindfulness, Media, & Misinformation in the Digital Era,, 2019, conference paper
International statistics sources: How to find them even when they hide
Kate Holvoet
Western States Government Information Virtual Conference, 2016, conference presentation
International statistics sources: How to find them even when they hide
Kate Holvoet
Western States Government Information Virtual Conference, 2014, conference presentation
Getting a library job in a foreign country: How (and why) to do it and how to thrive once you do
Kate Holvoet; Lara Seven Phillips
American Library Association Annual Conference, 2014, conference presentation
Using subject expertise at a generalist service desk
Kate Holvoet; Darby Fanning
Utah Library Association Annual Conference, 2013, conference presentation
International Statistics
Kate Holvoet
Six-State Virtual Government Information Conference, 2012, conference presentation
Social sciences & statistics research: Finding the core data
Kate Holvoet; G. Fletcher
Utah Library Association Annual Conference, 2011, conference presentation
International Sources and Statistics
Kate Holvoet
Six-State Virtual Government Information Conference, 2010, conference presentation
Socially challenged: Applications of social networking in an academic library / Chat reference consortium versus stand alone
Kate Holvoet
Utah Library Association and Mountain Plains Library Association Joint Annual Conference, 2008, conference presentation
Exploring the Deep Web
Kate Holvoet; Amy Brunvand; Peter Kraus; David Morrison
Utah Library Association, 2005, conference presentation
Top Ten International Statistical Resources
Kate Holvoet
Utah Library Association Annual Conference, 2004, conference presentation

Dissemination

Maximizing Student Participation in Library Research and Assessment
Kate Holvoet; Lucy Campbell; Connor Franklin Rey; Keven Jeffery; Rebecca Nowicki
University of San Diego, 2025, public speech

Data and Process

Data for "Trends in Digital Newspaper Discovery: A Natural Experiment"
Gabriel Gardner; Heather Cribbs; Kate Holvoet
figshare, 2021, data set
Fanfiction Platform and Metadata Surveys
Kate Holvoet; Allison Bailund
figshare, 2020, data set