Wendy Robertson, Digital Resources Systems Librarian, is responsible for helping to expand support of electronic scholarship and e-publishing, including developing an infrastructure to support locally published e-journals and establishing a repository and streamlined workflows for faculty publications such as e-books. Robertson performs data analysis on digital collections related to batch loading, migrating from one system to another, and aggregating with other information resources. Wendy received a B.A. in History from Grinnell College in 1988, and an M.L.I.S. from The University of Iowa in 1992. She has worked at The University of Iowa Libraries since 1988. Her previous work positions include Electronic Resources Systems Librarian in Enterprise Applications, Electronic Resources Management Unit Head, Serials Cataloger and Supervisor in Technical Services.
Articles
A Collaborative Checklist for E-journal Access (with Rocki Strader, Alison Roth, and Bob Boissy), Serials Librarian (2006)
Strader, Roth and Boissy introduced a checklist which they had developed which indicates the different...
Integrating Resources Cataloging Workshop (with Steven J. Miller), Serials Librarian (2005)
This pre-conference covered the first four sessions of the Serials Cataloging Cooperative Training Program’s Integrating...
Everything you always wanted to know about SFX but were afraid to ask (with Paul A. Soderdahl), The Serials Librarian (2004)
Link resolvers, including Ex Libris’ SFX, use OpenURL to provide library patrons with context-sensitive links,...
We’re Heading for the Barn Now! An Update on the Revisions to ISBD(S) and AACR2 Rules for Serials Cataloging (with Jean Hirons and Karen Darling), Serials Librarian (2001)
Jean Hirons explained the status of harmonization AACR, ISSN and ISBD(S) rules. Hirons discussed the...
Presentations
Migrating Digital Collections (with Mark F. Anderson), Electronic Resources & Libraries (2009)
Locally digitized collections have been around long enough that they may need to move to...
Implementing Primo at the University of Iowa Libraries (with Brian Thompson and Sue Julich), Iowa Library Association (2008)
Verde: What Six Months Can Do for You (with Robert Van Rennes), ELUNA (2008)
The University of Iowa is planning to spend concerted effort implementing Verde during the first...
Social Movement to Public Policy: Digital History in the IDL (with Nicole Saylor, Jen Wolfe, Mark F. Anderson, and Anne E. Shelley), Iowa Government Documents Round Table Annual Workshop (2008)
The Digital Library Services staff from the University of Iowa Libraries provided a content update...