Claire McInerney

Claire McInerney's current research focuses on the intersection of people, information processes, and technology with emphasis on knowledge management—how people and organizations create and share knowledge and the tools and techniques that can be used in a knowledge-based organization. During her tenure at Rutgers, McInerney also served as director of the Information Technology and Informatics major, the Department of Library and Information Science chair, associate dean, and dean of SC&I.

From 1999-2004, she studied a small town, Ennis, Ireland, to see how a large community technology project affected everyday life in the town. The project led to several scholarly papers and conference presentations. In the general area of informatics, McInerney has been interested in gender differences in information and technology careers, in how web pages can be designed for usefulness and findability, and how science information can be disseminated effectively. She has been published in the The Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Library Trends, Science Communication, and a variety of healthcare journals. 

Recently, McInerney's has been working with an interdisciplinary team of physicans from Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, a psychologist, and students from SC&I's graduate programs to study how information and communication practices can enhance the quality of health care.

Ph.D., Information Science, State University of New York at Albany, School of Information Science and Policy, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy
M.A., Librarianship, Central Michigan University
B.A., English, Creighton University