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City: Raleigh, NC

Teaching & Professional Interests

  • Digital / Virtual Libraries
  • Electronic Documents
  • Government Libraries
  • Information Systems and Technologies
  • Metadata and Semantic Web
  • Users and Uses of Information Systems

Research Interests

  • Academic Libraries
  • Digital / Virtual Libraries
  • Metadata and Semantic Web
  • Digital curation and preservation

Amy E. Rudersdorf

Lecturer

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 and 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.

Courses Taught

Education

  • Master's (Library and Information Sciences) University of Pittsburgh (2000)
  • BA (English) University of Wisconsin–Madison (1994)

Academic & Professional Experience

  • Director, Digital Information Management Program, State Library of North Carolina (2007-)
  • Digital Technologies Librarian for Special Collections, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University (2005-2007)
  • Digital Production Coordinator (Academic Librarian), University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2002-2005)
  • Web Development and Systems Support, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh (2000-2002)

Selected Publications  (last five years only)

  • Eubank, Kelly, Jennifer Ricker, and Amy Rudersdorf. (2009). Pathways to Preservation: Digital Curation Strategies in North Carolina State Government. Proceedings of the 2009 DigCCurr Conference, Chapel Hill, NC.
  • Rudersdorf, Amy. (2007). Giving People What They Want: Exploring the continuing shift from 'real world' to 'digital world' user expectations. Proceedings of the 2007 Computers in Libraries Conference.
  • Kosmerick, Todd, Amy Rudersdorf, Brian Dietz. (2007). "Green 'N' Growing: A Digital Project at NC State University. Microforms & Imaging Review (Spring): 36, 2.

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