Dr. Beaudoin holds a Ph.D. in Information Studies from the iSchool at Drexel University, a Master of Science in Library and Information Science in the Management of Digital Information from Drexel University, a Master of Arts in Art History from Temple University, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art History from Massachusetts College of Art. She teaches courses in information organization, metadata, digital libraries, and digital preservation. Her primary research interests include metadata, digital libraries, preservation of digital content, technologies used to support humanities scholarship, and visual information use, access and retrieval.