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==Director, Digital Information Management Program, North Carolina State Library==  
==Assistant Director of Content, Digital Public Library of America==  
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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, currently teaches courses on metadata and preservation, 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.
Rudersdorf is responsible for digitization partnerships and related workflows, metadata normalization and shareability, and community engagement to promote the DPLA as a community resource. Rudersdorf formerly served as the director of the Digital Information Management Program at the State Library of North Carolina. Rudersdorf is a Library of Congress National Digital Stewardship Alliance coordinating committee member and an active voice in the digital preservation community. Rudersdorf teaches library graduate school courses on digital libraries and preservation (San Jose State University) and metadata (North Carolina Central University). Prior to moving to state government, Rudersdorf worked with digital collections in special collections at North Carolina State University, coordinated a digital production group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and worked with public libraries throughout Wisconsin to aid in the development and coordination of Library and Service Technology Act (LSTA) funded digitization grants.

Latest revision as of 15:21, 7 January 2013

Assistant Director of Content, Digital Public Library of America

Amy Rudersdorf.jpg

Rudersdorf is responsible for digitization partnerships and related workflows, metadata normalization and shareability, and community engagement to promote the DPLA as a community resource. Rudersdorf formerly served as the director of the Digital Information Management Program at the State Library of North Carolina. Rudersdorf is a Library of Congress National Digital Stewardship Alliance coordinating committee member and an active voice in the digital preservation community. Rudersdorf teaches library graduate school courses on digital libraries and preservation (San Jose State University) and metadata (North Carolina Central University). Prior to moving to state government, Rudersdorf worked with digital collections in special collections at North Carolina State University, coordinated a digital production group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and worked with public libraries throughout Wisconsin to aid in the development and coordination of Library and Service Technology Act (LSTA) funded digitization grants.