Kate Randall Haley is Librarian for Business and Economics at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and the Administrator of Project ASC. Project ASC (Automated Searching Cooperative) is a fee-based service of the UMass Dartmouth Library available to any organization or individual whose research needs extend beyond the library's collections. She has managed the fee-based service and acted as liaison to the Charlton College of Business and Industry and the Economics Department since 1990, and coordinates online database searching for the Information Services department. In addition, she teaches “Marketing Intelligence and Information Technology,” a required course in the CCB Department of Marketing/BIS.

Since 1987 she has operated her own consulting company, Randall Research Associates, as an independent library and information management service, concentrating primarily on library automation, resource development, database design and development, and special collections access. She is also a managing partner in MarkIT of Rhode Island, a marketing intelligence and technology consultancy designed to aid companies in developing business intelligence systems and solutions. MarkIT specializes in the design and development of marketing intelligence strategies and systems, particularly with respect to secondary electronic resources. Ms. Haley has consulted to corporate libraries and information centers for several years, focusing on the development of proprietary databases and internal information communications, and is currently providing seminars on secondary market research and competitive intelligence for marketing and information professionals.

Ms. Randall Haley Kate holds a B.F.A. from Rockford College, IL, an M.S.L.I.S. from Simmons College Graduate School of Information Science, Boston, MA, and an M.B.A. in International Business from Providence College, RI. She is a member of the Academy of Management, Special Libraries Association, the New England Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries, the American Society of Indexers, New England Online Users Group, and Beta Phi Mu, the library science honor society. She has published articles on competitive intelligence, business curriculum development, intranet development, library resource and curriculum integration, information auditing, newspaper and oral history indexing, and made presentations on the same subjects, as well as contributing to book chapters in the areas of records management, total quality management, and research methods in international business and economics.