Gerry McKiernan

About Me

I currently have primary responsibilities for Collection Development, Instruction, and Reference and Research Services in Chemical and Biological Engineering; Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering; Environment Sciences; Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering; and Mechanical Engineering with the Library of Iowa State University, where I have been employed since April 1987. Prior to joining ISU, I served as the Museum Librarian at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, and as an Assistant Librarian with the Library of the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, my hometown. I received my Master of Science degree in Library Science from the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign in 1975, and my undergraduate degree in Anthropology from Lehman College of the City University of New York, The Bronx.

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Team Members

Disruptive Science: Brave New WorldViews  
Mobile Libraries  
Information Literacy And Web 2.0  
National Chemistry Week | October 21-27 | 2007  
The Geothermal Energy Blog  
Student As Scholar  
Friends: Social Networking Sites for Engaged Library Services  
CrowdSource: The Power Of The People  
The Green Library  
Scholarship 2.0: An Idea Whose Time Has Come  
Reference Notes  
DisruptiveSchola...  
T-ReX: Technical Reports Experiment  
AlternativeEnerg...  
The Bioenergy Blog  
The Wind Energy Blog  
Professional Myopia  
SciTechNet(sm): Science and Technology Social Networking Services  
Theoretical Librarian  
The Bioeconomy Blog  
NS2: Niche Social Network Sites