While paperwork was never one of Kate's favorite things to do, if you see her at her desk, it looks like she's doing a lot of it. After talking it over with Conan and Annalie, they all came to the conclusion that some sort of protocol handbook should be created. Something where people can look to figure out what steps they should take in certain situations - like gloves at a crime scene, or how to properly bag evidence.

Kate knows her way around a crime scene, but she doesn't have all the answers. And she wants to have them, thus collecting and deciding what to put together and what to keep out, because while back home there were protocols for arrest and containment, taking fingerprints aren't necessary for this team when they don't have a database to go off of. She's making a list of everything to go over with Conan and Annalie when she's done collecting it, but until that point...yeah.

So at the moment she can be one of a few places: either at her desk, ruffling through papers and books and taking notes, walking back and forth from the book shelf to the desks, or sitting at her desk rubbing at her face because man does she strongly dislike paperwork. But it's her own project, she's going to get it done. There's just a lot of reading.