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November 20, 2012 by Gary Price

Amy Rudersdorf Named Assistant Director for Content at the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)

November 20, 2012 by Gary Price

Note: At the beginning of August, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) named Emily Gore, Director of Content.
From Today’s DPLA Announcement:

As the Assistant Director for Content, Rudersdorf will be responsible for digitization partnerships and related workflows, metadata normalization and shareability, and community engagement to promote the DPLA as a community resource. Rudersdorf will work closely with DPLA Director for Content Emily Gore to oversee the DPLA’s hub infrastructure, including implementation of both Service and Content Hubs as part of the Digital Hubs Pilot Project, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
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Rudersdorf currently serves 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.

Her MLIS degree is from the University of Pittsburgh.
Read the Complete Announcement
Amy Rudersdorf begins her new job on January 1, 2013.

Filed under: Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation, Public Libraries

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About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.

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