Catherine Cardwell has been a librarian in Ohio for almost twenty years. She is currently the Director of Libraries at Ohio Wesleyan University, which include the L. A. Beeghly Library, the Hobson Science Library, the Kinnison Music Library, and the Special Collections. She is a member of the steering committee overseeing the Five Colleges of Ohio Andrew W. Mellon Grant—Digital Collections: from Projects to Pedagogy and Scholarship.
Prior to joining OWU, Cardwell was a member of the library faculty at Bowling Green State University from 1998 to 2011, where she served as instruction coordinator, chair of the Department of Library Teaching and Learning, co-interim dean, and interim vice provost. In 2002, she was part of a library-faculty development team from BGSU and KSU that received a $343,000 grant from the Ohio Board of Regents to integrate information literacy and technology into the curriculum. Cardwell was a reference librarian at Youngstown State University from 1995-1998.
Her interests include integrating information literacy and digital scholarship into the curriculum, creating user-centered teaching and learning spaces, and improving discovery and usability of library resources and services. Cardwell received a BA in English and French from Youngstown State University, an MA in French from the University of Pittsburgh, and an MLS from Kent State University.
