A recent library school graduate, Corey Harper was nominated by his colleagues at the University of Oregon (UO) because of the key role he played in implementing digital collections. Along with technical expertise, says Watson, he brought with him "[an ability to] balance idealism with expediency, the striving for perfection with the need to satisfy competing priorities." When be arrived in September 2000, Harper was assigned to the metadata implementation group. "Almost single-handedly," says Watson, he got CONTENTdm, a digital content management software, off the ground. This brief article describes the work of Corey Harper.