Claire R. McInerney's Blog
Accreditation - The seal of professional approval
August 29th, 2011 / 2:56 am
Professional groups sometimes give a “seal of approval” to an academic program when it meets high standards established by the professional field. In Library and Information Science, the gold standard is being accredited by the American Library Association (ALA), an organization with 62,000 members that promotes libraries, intellectual freedom, and library education. Since
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Is a Conference the Same as a Convention?
August 29th, 2011 / 1:49 am
Is a conference the same as a convention? Not really. A convention has the connotation of a holiday where conventioneers party the night away and may attend a meeting or two and visit exhibition booths to see the latest products on display. For academics, though, going to a conference is an opportunity to share ideas, research results and new ways of thinking about a discipline
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Rutgers SC&I faculty member and students win top prize at the I-conference
February 6th, 2010 / 12:38 pm
Congratulations to Prof. Joe Sanchez and PhD students Jessica Lingel, Nathan Graham, and Aaron Trammel who won the best poster award at the i-Schools conference held this week in Champaign-Urbana. The poster "The Jersey Punk Basement Scene: Exploring the Information Underground" presented elements of the Social Informatics/Information Seeking research the team has in progress.
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Lost Knowledge - What happens when workers leave an organization?
January 31st, 2010 / 4:23 pm
Social Media and Sharing Knowledge
January 27th, 2010 / 8:48 am
Digital Library Futures Discussed at IFLA Meeting in Milan
August 29th, 2009 / 8:17 pm
Claire R. McInerney
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Claire McInerney joined the Rutgers faculty in 2000 to help design and implement the Information Technology and Informatics (ITI) undergraduate major. Since then she has worked with graduate and undergraduate students in the ITI, Library and Information Science, and Communication and Information Studies programs as well as students in the interdisciplinary doctoral program. She earned her doctorate in Information Science at the State University of New York at Albany where she studied information flow in organizations and how remote workers access and use information. The research involved teleworkers, information specialists, IT staff, VPs and other executives at each company as participants. While at SUNY/Albany Prof. McInerney 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.

Her 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.  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, Dr. McInerney has 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. She publishes in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Science Communication, and a variety of health care journals. Recently, she has been working with an interdisciplinary team of UMDNJ physicians, a psychologist, and students from SC & I's   graduate programs to study how information and communication 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.

Dr. McInerney and Dr. Ron Day of Indiana University edited the book Rethinking Knowledge Management – From Knowledge Management to Knowledge Processes which makes the case that knowledge sharing is largely about communication, collaboration, trust, and learning,

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

Prof. McInerney is interested in theater, and she is  a supporter of the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York and other theater organizations. She appreciates the known and the hidden treasures of New Jersey –  the Jersey shore, Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, the Delaware Gap, Stockton and Lambertville, the Zimmerli, NJ Film Festival, the University Swimming Association, Montgomery Theater in Rocky Hill, and Pithari Greek Taverna in Highland Park. She has two daughters, Liz, a chef in New York and Catherine, who is a medical anthropologist in Portland, Oregon, and two energetic grandsons.

Education
2009, Management Development Program, Harvard University
1998, Ph.D. Information Science. State University of New York/Albany
Research

- 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

Publications and Presentations

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.

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