Beth McNeil

Beth McNeil is dean emerita and Esther Ellis Norton professor of library science at the Libraries and School of Information Studies at Purdue University. She served as dean of libraries at Purdue from 2019 to 2025 and at Iowa State University from 2015 to 2019. She received a PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and earned master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the University of Illinois. Her publications include Patron Behavior in Libraries (1996) and Human Resource Management in Today’s Academic Library (2004).