Directory
Christina Beis
Associate Professor; Director of Collections Strategies and Services
Full-Time Faculty
Libraries: Collections Strategies and Services
Profile
Christina (Tina) plans and implements best practices around materials budget development and spending, collection management and strategy, acquisitions, cataloging and metadata, licensing, and resources discovery. She has worked at the University Libraries since 2017, previously as the Discovery Services Librarian.
Degrees
- M.L.I.S., Kent State University (2006)
- B.A., Wittenberg University (2005)
Professional Activities
- Member of the American Library Association (ALA)
- Metadata and Collections Section
- Acquisitions Committee 2021-2023
- Technical Services and Systems Committee 2021-2023
- Member of Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures
- Metadata and Collections Section
- Member of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
- Member of the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO)
- Web Manager 2018-2021
- Member of the Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians (OVGTSL)
Research Interests
- Electronic resources workflows
- Usability in discovery services
Selected Publications
- Harris, K., Beis, C., Shreffler, S. (2021). Citizen Web Archivists: Applying Web Archiving as a Pedagogical Tool. Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 33(4), 262-272. https://doi.org/10.1080/1941126X.2021.1988463
- Kelly, K., Beis, C., Zlotnik, A., & Schlangen, M. (2021). People-first promotion: Rallying library workers during COVID-19 and beyond. Marketing Libraries Journal, 5(1), 4-17. https://journal.marketinglibraries.org/summer2021/02_MLJv5i1.pdf
- Morales, J. M., & Beis, C. A. (2021). Communication across the electronic resources lifecycle: a survey of academic libraries. Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 33(2), 75-91. https://doi.org/10.
1080/1941126X.2021.1913841 - Beis, C.A., Harris, K.N., Shreffler, S.L. (2019). Accessing web archives: Integrating an Archive-It collection into EBSCO Discovery Service. Journal of Web Librarianship. https://doi.org/10.1080/19322909.2019.1625844
- Beis, C.A. (2018). Simplifying e-resources workflows with G Suite for Education. Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 30(3), 161–163. https://doi.org/10.1080/1941126X.2018.1494091