Katharine joined University Library in 2015 as the business librarian. In 2025, she was appointed as the Associate Dean of Scholarly Communication & Content Strategies, after spending a year as the interim associate dean.  She is also the project direct for The ONEAL Project, which developed support and open education resources to teach negotiation skills to academic library professional and library science students. Prior to joining IU Indianapolis, she was a business librarian at Tulane University. Librarianship is her second career. Prior to earning her MLIS at the University of Washington, she worked for over a decade as an analyst in the private sector in a variety of roles including finance, operations, sales, marketing, and brand management. She also has an MBA from Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her primary research interests are focused on library/vendor negotiations, library assessment, and process analysis.