NDSA:Amy Rudersdorf

Amy Rudersdorf, State Library of North Carolina, Department of Cultural Resources

Biography:
Amy Rudersdorf is the director of the Digital Information Management Program at the State Library of North Carolina. This small but tenacious group identifies and promotes 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. She is the co-chair of the digital preservation interest group at ALA and was a recent participant in the LOC Digital Preservation Outreach and Education workshop pilot. Prior to her work at the State Library, Rudersdorf developed digital collections at North Carolina State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In her "free time" she teaches courses on preservation (San Jose State University) and metadata (North Carolina Central University).

Interest in serving on the Coordinating Committee:
As the manager of a digital preservation shop at a small, state government organization, I understand the value of collaboration. Without inter-institutional cooperation, the deep and rich heritage for which small and mid-sized academic, public, and government institutions are responsible could suffer or even disappear. I am interested in representing organizations of this type on the NDSA coordinating committee and feel that my passion for long-term access and decade+ work in the field provides me with the experience to do so.

Communities Represented:
State Government

Length of Term:
3 years (ending December 31, 2014)