Amy Rudersdorf

Director, Digital Information Management Program, North Carolina State Library

Amy Rudersdorf is the Director of the Digital Information Management Program at the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources. She works to identify and promote solutions to ensure long-term preservation and ready permanent public access to born-digital and digitized information produced by (or on behalf of) North Carolina state government. Prior to this position, she worked at the North Carolina State University Libraries Special Collections Research Center and the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center in Madison, Wisconsin. Rudersdorf's research interests include digital preservation and curation, metadata, and digital collections building and management. She has taught a course on digital libraries, and has spoken and published nationally on digital curation strategies in state government, user expectations from online archival collections, and digital collections management. She holds a Master's degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh.