George A. Smathers Libraries

Joe Aufmuth is UF Library’s Geospatial Consultant in the Library’s Academic Research Consulting and Services (ARCS) department.  He is also an affiliated faculty member in UF’s Geomatics Program where he earned his MS degree. Joe has 30⁺ years of combined academic and private consulting experience in the areas of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing, and Global Positioning Systems (GPS). He consults with faculty, staff, and students on all aspects of creating or acquiring spatially referenced data, performing spatial analysis, and creating maps, as well as using applicable software and hardware.  Mr. Aufmuth has also taught GIS courses at UF for over 15 years.  Internationally, Joe has taught short courses in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Egypt, and has presented papers in Hungary and Italy. Locally, Joe is known for having served on the Micanopy Town Commission for the past 20 years, 10 of those as the Town’s mayor. 

Tara Tobin Cataldo is the STEM Collections and Research Metrics Librarian in the UF Libraries. She directs the collections operations of the Marston Science Library, and serves on the group that manages the libraries multi-million dollar collections budget. Tara is an affiliate in the Academic Research and Consulting (ARCS) department and leads activities in Research Metrics and Impact. Her research focuses on the use of digital information and research metrics in higher education. Tara has her B.S. in Biology from the University of Tampa, her M.L.S. from the University of South Florida and she has been an academic librarian for over 25 years.

Perry Collins is a librarian and scholar based in Gainesville, FL. She is currently Chair, Academic Research Consulting and Services (ARCS), as well as Copyright and Scholarly Communications Librarian and tenured faculty at the University of Florida Libraries. Perry works closely with the Digital Library of the Caribbean, a 100-partner network devoted to preserving the cultural heritage of the Caribbean and Caribbean Diasporas, and is OER Editor for LibraryPress@UF, a collaborative digital publishing partnership between the Libraries and the University of Florida Press. Perry has been PI and co-PI on major grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Institute of Museum and Library Services, and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Previously, Perry was Sr. Program Officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities, where she worked in the Office of Digital Humanities from 2024-2025 and 2011-2017. In this role, she developed initiatives to better support digital sustainability, including leadership of the NEH Public Access Policy announced in 2024. As an academic librarian, Perry has held leadership roles within the field of library publishing; she recently served on the Board of the Library Publishing Coalition and co-edits the newly launched journal Case Studies in Library Publishing. Perry holds a M.L.I.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and M.A. in American Studies from the University of Kansas.

Dr. Todd Digby is the Chair of the Library Technology Services department at the University of Florida. He leads a department that researches, develops, optimizes, and supports advanced library information systems and technology for the UF Libraries.

Curator, Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature