Melissa Goldsmith is currently the Head of Digital Special Collections at Elms College. She has published articles and scholarly reviews on music discography, information literacy, academic library outreach, and musical cultures in Notes, Choice, portal, Naturlaut, Screening the Past, Dead Reckonings, American Music, The Journal of the Society of American Music, and Fontes artis musicae. She has a CLIS, MLIS, and a PhD (in musicology).