My work life has been focused on education and information. After spending time as a librarian, a researcher, and instructor, I came to Rutgers in 2000 to help design and implement the Information Technology and Informatics (ITI) undergraduate major.. Since then I’ve enjoyed working with graduate students and undergrads in the ITI, Library and Information Science, and Communication and Information Studies programs as well as students in our interdisciplinary doctoral program. I earned my doctorate in Information Science at the State University of New York at Albany where I studied information flow in organizations and how remote workers accessed and used information. The research was started with each organization's special library or information center and it involved teleworkers, information specialists, IT staff, VPs and other executives at each company. While at SUNY/Albany I also worked as the information officer for the Center for Technology in Government, a research center that partnered with organizations in the information and communication technology industry.

My current research agenda focuses on the intersection of people, information processes, and technology with particular 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. The research setting may be a library, a school, a company, or a health organization. From 1999-2004 I 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, I’ve also been interested in gender differences in information and technology use, in how web pages can be designed for usefulness and findability, and how science information can be disseminated effectively. I publish in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Science Communication, and a variety of medical journals. Recently, I have been working with an interdisciplinary team of physicians, a psychologist, and students from SC & I's   graduate programs to study how knowledge management practices can enhance the quality of health care. The project is documented in the following papers:

Orzano, A.J., McInerney, C.R., McDaniel, R.R., Meese, A., Alajmi, B., Mohr, S., Tallia, A.F. (2009). A medical home—Value and implications of knowledge management. Health Care Management Review, 34(3) 224-33

Orzano, A. J., McInerney, C. R., Tallia, A. F., Scharf, D., & Crabtree, B. F. (2008, Jan.-March). Family medicine practice performance and knowledge management. Health Care Management Review, 33(1), 21-28.

Orzano, A. J., McInerney, C.R., Tallia, A.F., Scharf, D., & Crabtree, B.F. (2008). A knowledge management model: Implications for enhancing quality in health care. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 59(3), 489-505.

Orzano, A.J., Tallia, A.F., McInerney, C.R., McDaniel, R.R, Crabtree, B.F. (2007, April). Strategies for developing a knowledge-driven culture in your practice. Family Practice Management, 14 (4), 32-34.

In 2007 Prof. Ron Day of Indiana and I edited a book Re-Thinking Knowledge Management – From Knowledge Management to Knowledge Processes that makes the case that knowledge sharing is largely about communication, collaboration, trust, learning, and using technology tools to help represent human knowledge in organizations.

My most recent work is a book titled Knowledge Management Processes: Theoretical Foundations and Practice, co-authored with Michael Koenig of Long Island University through Morgan Claypool publishers. The electronic version of this book is available through the RU Libraries online, and it provides a primer of sorts on Knowledge Management -- its history, its scholarship, and what it means in today's organizational environment.

Outside of my work at the university I enjoy going to the theater in New York and am a supporter of the George St. Playhouse in New Brunswick and the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York. I’m continually surprised by the hidden treasures of New Jersey – here are a few of my favorite places in the state: George St. Food Coop, the Jersey shore, Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, the Delaware Gap, Stockton and Lambertville, the Zimmerli, NJ Film Festival, Montgomery Theater in Rocky Hill, and Pithari Greek Taverna in Highland Park. I have two daughters, Liz, a chef in New York and Catherine, who is a medical anthropologist in Portland, Oregon ; they each have a son.

- Knowledge Management (KM) in Organizations. Current project is related to KM and Health Care

- Gender and technology

- Community informatics (e.g. Ireland's Information Age Town)

- Knowledge and information flow in organizations

- Websites as communication and information tools

McInerney, C.R. and Koenig, M.E.D. (2011). Knowledge Management Processes in Organizations: Theoretical Foundations and Practice. Morgan Claypool Publishers. San Rafael, CA.
DOI # 10.2200/S00323ED1V01Y201012ICR018

Bird, N.J, McInerney, C.R., Mohr, S. (2010).  Source evaluation and information literacy. Communication & Information Literacy, 4 (2), 170-191.

DiPasquale, J. & McInerney, C.R. (2010, December). Knowledge management in small-and medium-sized enterprises. Journal of Information & Knowledge Management, 9 (4), 341-353.

Orzano, A.J., McInerney, C.R., McDaniel, R.R., Meese, A., Alajmi, B., Mohr, S., Tallia, A.F. (2009). A medical home—Value and implications of knowledge management. Health Care Management Review, 34(3) 224-33.

Alajmi, B., McInerney, C. R., Orzano, A.J., Tallia, A. F., Meese, A., Vamanu, I. (2008). Knowledge management tools and processes in U.S.A. primary health care: Analysis of four case studies. Knowledge management: Competencies and professionalism, Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management 2008, Hawamdeh, S. et. al. (Eds.), Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific.

McInerney, C.R., DiDonato, N. & Giagnacova, R., & O’Donnel, A. (2008). Factors that influence undergraduate students in the choice of information technology majors and careers. Information Technology, Learning, and Performance Journal, 24 (2), 35 – 53.

McInerney, C.R. (2005, Fall). Educational inquiry and creativity: Developing digital resources in Ireland’s Information Age Town. Library Trends, 54 (2), 266-285.

McInerney, C. R. & Bird, N. (2005). Assessing website quality in context. Information Research, 10 (2), p. 213+ Available at http://InformationR.net/ir/10-2/paper213.html.

McInerney, C.R., Bird, N., & Nucci, M. (2004). The flow of scientific knowledge from lab to the lay public. Science Communication, 26: 44-74.

McInerney, C.R. (2004, May-June). Women and information technology in Ireland. Women and Librarianship, 24, 7 - 10. (Invited article)

McInerney, C.R. (2003). Wired Ennis: Learning and technology in an information age town. Information Technology, Education & Society, 4 (2), 7 - 34.

McInerney, C.R. (2003). Communication and globalisation: New opportunities for women in Ireland. Proceedings of the World Library and Information Congress: 69th IFLA General Conference and Council. Women's Issues Satellite Meeting. July 31, Berlin, Germany.

McInerney, C.R. & Day, R. (2002). Introduction to the JASIST special section on knowledge management. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 53 (12), 1008.

McInerney, C.R. (2002). Knowledge management and the dynamic nature of knowledge. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 53 (12), 1009-1018.

McInerney, C.R. (2002). Knowledge management: A practice still defining itself. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 28 (3), 14-15. (Invited article)

McInerney, C.R., Vandergrift, K. & Daley, A. (2002). Broadening our reach: LIS education for undergraduates. American Libraries, 33 (2), 40-43. (Invited article)

Larsen, K. R. T., McInerney, C.R., Nyquist, C., Silsbee, D. & Zagonel, A.A. (2002). Learning organizations: A primer for group facilitators. Group Facilitation, 4 (1), 30-44.

Larsen, K. R. T. & McInerney, C.R. (2002). Preparing to work in the virtual organization. Information & Management, 39 (6), 445-456.

For a complete list of publications and conference presentations, please see the link to my CV.