Nathan D. M. Robertson

Electronic Resources Librarian

Thurgood Marshall Law Library, University of Maryland School of Law

Nathan Robertson joined the Thurgood Marshall Law Library in July of 2005. As the Electronic Resources Librarian, he manages the library's subscriptions to databases and electronic journals.

Mr. Robertson is active in the international electronic resource management and standards development community. He is a member of the Digital Library Federation's Electronic Resource Management Steering Group, and a co-author of the 2004 DLF ERMI report. He chairs the Coverage subgroup of the NISO/EDItEUR Joint Working Party for the Exchange of Serials Subscription Information, and co-chairs the DLF/NISO/EDItEUR/PLS License Exchange Working Group. Mr. Robertson is also active in the Library & Information Technology Association; he serves as a LITA intern on MARBI, is a former member of the Top Technology Trends committee, and a former chair of the Standards Interest Group.

Prior to coming to the library, Mr. Robertson was a Database Analyst/Programmer for the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University, where he was a co-developer and administrator of the open-source Hopkins Electronic Resource Management System (HERMES). Nathan holds an A.B. from Davidson College and an M.S.L.S. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.