Kimberly Wolfe is VCU Libraries' new Institutional Repository Librarian. In this role, Wolfe guides the ongoing development of Scholars Compass, VCU’s open-access institutional repository, providing leadership and vision for the open dissemination of the university’s research, scholarship, and creative works. 

She collaborates with faculty, students,and staff across campus and works closely with institutional partners to ensure all materials meet Title II ADA accessibility standards prior to publication.

Wolfe holds a Master of Arts in Library and Information Science with a concentration in archival studies from the University of Arizona, and a Master of Arts in art history from Virginia Commonwealth University. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography from Frostburg State University.

To VCU Libraries, she brings extensive experience in digital collections and metadata management, most recently at the Library of Virginia, where she served as the Photograph Collections Metadata Specialist 2022-25. There, she led cross-departmental initiatives to describe, manage and publish large image collections, and established the strategic application of metadata schemas, controlled vocabularies and content standards for visual resources.

From 2017 to 2022, Wolfe was the Digital Collections Librarian at the University of Richmond, where she worked with stakeholders to enhance access to digital resources. Working across several digital publishing platforms, she developed workflows to publish a wide range of content, such as student and faculty publications and projects, audiovisual materials, oral histories and institutional records.

Her creative and scholarly activity includes a neighborhood oral history and storytelling project, as well as three collaborative archival hand-bound photograph books commemorating the town of Frostburg, MD. Her national service includes work as a conversation partner for the HBCU Library Alliance and Digital Library Federation's Authenticity Project.