Summary
As the Director of Collections and Discovery, I provide leadership for our technical services departments: Budget, E-Resources, & Discovery Services (BERDS) and Metadata, Cataloging, and One-Time Acquisitions (MCOTA). I oversee the Libraries’ materials budget and collections, the library website, and serve on the teams that maintain and set policy for the Alma Library Services Platform and Primo discovery service.
Education
M.L.S., University at Albany, SUNY
M.A., Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, Indiana University
B.A., Middle East Studies, Brown University
Fulbright Scholar, Madrid, Spain
Selected publications
- Beisler, M., & Baker, L. (2025). Open Access Resource Management Among Academic Research Libraries in the United States. Technical Services Quarterly, 42(1), 1–26.
- Boss, E. E., & Beisler, M. (2024). Impact of Alma Migration on Technical Services’ Unit Organization in Academic Libraries. Technical Services Quarterly, 41(1), 22–44.
- Medaille, A., Beisler, M., Bucy, R. E., Tokarz, R. E. (2021) Honors Students and Thesis Research: A Study of Information Literacy Practices and Self-Efficacy at the End of Students’ Undergraduate Careers. College & Research Libraries82(1), 92-112.
- Beisler, M., Bucy, R. E., Medaille, A. (2019). Streaming Video Database Features: What do Faculty and Students Really Want? Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 31(1), 14-30.
- Beisler, M., Medaille, A. (2016). How Do Students Get Help with Research Assignments? Using Drawings to Understand Students’ Help Seeking Behavior. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 42(4), 390-400.
- Medaille, A., Beisler, M., Radniecki, T., Ressel, M., Slater, H., Cooper, D., Foster, N. F. (2015). Exploring Group Study at the University of Nevada, Reno. New York: Ithaka S+R.