Promoting Individual and Community Health at the Library

Flaherty covers strategies used by libraries to improve people's access to and use of health information. Whether for an individual, a library program, or a community program, it is important to provide health information and sources that are not outdated, difficult to retain, or misrepresented. Public libraries are the perfect setting for empowering patrons with this information.

Mary Grace Flaherty is currently an assistant professor at the School of Information & Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she teaches in the graduate library program. Her courses include Resource Selection and Evaluation; Management Issues for Small Libraries; Disaster Planning for Libraries; Health Sciences Information; Proposal Development; Seminar in Popular Materials; and Seminar in Public Libraries. Dr. Flaherty received her PhD in Information Science & Technology from Syracuse University where she was an IMLS Fellow. She has her MLS from the University of Maryland and MS in Behavioral Science from Johns Hopkins University. She has over 25 years' experience working in a variety of library settings, including academic, medical research, special, and public.