Her current position responsibilities include teaching two music bibliography courses each term, one graduate and one undergraduate.

  Sampsel's previous positions include:

     Music Librarian at CU-Boulder
     Original Cataloger at the University of Pittsburgh
     Project Cataloger at the Stephen Foster Memorial

Her MLA service includes membership in the:

     Education Committee
     coordination of that group's pre-conference workshops from 1996-present

Sampsel is also active in the Mountain-Plains Chapter, having edited the chapter's newsletter since 1995.