About me
Maristella Feustle is the Music Special Collections Librarian at the University of North Texas, and has been the chair of MLA's Archives and Special Collections Committee from 2019-2023. She also serves on the Society of American Archivists' Technical Subcommittee on Describing Archives: a Content Standard (TS-DACS), and she is the current chair of the Steering Committee for Texas Archival Resources Online (TARO). She has published multiple articles and book chapters, and has presented in the U.S., Canada, Poland, Hungary, and Germany. Her research interests include jazz history, archival practice, and manuscript fragments. She remains active as a jazz guitarist and theater musician (guitar, banjo, mandolin) in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.