Kateri Abeyta is the Manager of the IT Department for the Denver Public Library System. She began her career in technology as a web developer in 1997. In 2001 she joined the IT department at the Denver Public Library as an application developer focused on web technologies and became the department manager in 2008. She has been involved in branch renovation projects where technology improvements were prevalent including extensive renovations at the Central Library to build a Community Technology Center. The Central Library renovation project was awarded the Colorado Library Project of the Year. She is on the design teams of the 3 new branch libraries, one of which opened in 2011 and has been awarded the Colorado Library of the Year (Green Valley Ranch Library). She is very passionate about libraries and technology and believes strongly in collaboration and teamwork to make things happen.