Catherine Foley is a digital librarian at Matrix: Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences at Michigan State University. She has a BA in History from Wesleyan University and a Master of Library Science degree from the University of Kentucky. Foley has expertise in metadata standards and digital repositories. She manages several Africa-related multimedia digital library projects involving collaborators from universities in North America and Africa.

These projects include: the Community Video Education Trust digital archive; Diversity and Tolerance in the Islam of West Africa (aodl.org/islamictolerance); African Oral Narratives: life histories, interviews, folklore & song from sub-Saharan Africa; and Biographies: The Atlantic Slave Data Network. Foley also manages the American Black Journal Archive, a digital library of an historic television program produced and broadcast weekly by Detroit Public Television since 1968. She is currently coordinating the development of an NEH-funded digital archive of over 100,000 photographic negatives by four photographers from Mali, West Africa.