Rachael Kotarski is the Associate University Librarian for Digital Strategy and Services. In this role, she provides vision, leadership, and coordination for the digital services of the University of Chicago Library.
Most recently, Kotarski served as Head of Library Research Services at the University of Bath in England. There, she was responsible for teams and services for open access, research data, repositories, research analytics, and the University archive.
Building on an academic background in biology at the University of Sheffield, Kotaraski started her career working on biomedical data services at Biomed Central, a scientific open access publisher. She subsequently joined the British Library for 15 years in progressively more senior positions, culminating in the position of Head of Research Infrastructure Services. In that role she was responsible for the British Library’s repository services and institutional repository; its discovery services, including the world’s largest library catalog search; its activities and services around open access, scholarly communications, and persistent identifiers; research data services including the national DataCite consortium; and digital collections and innovation projects with researchers and research organizations internationally.