Catherine N. Norton Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

In 2014 the Catherine N. Norton Fellowship at the Marine Biological Laboratory was established to cover “approved expenses” for a student or “early year fellow”.

She received her education at Regis College and Simmons College (Master’s degree, Information Science, 1984). She began working at the MBL/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library in 1980, and in 1991 was made head of information services. She supported both digital libraries and open access. By 1994, she was the director of the library and led a program that became the basis for the first “Encyclopedia of Life” project. The idea behind the project was to enable medical researchers to utilize technology and to collect biomedical data in an easily shareable format and Norton served as one of the collaborators.

Catherine Norton (née Norris; January 24, 1941 – December 22, 2014) was an American librarian. She was the first Director of Information Systems at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL).