Mary Grace Flaherty is assistant professor at the School of Information & Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her PhD in information science & technology from Syracuse University where she was an IMLS fellow. She earned her MLS from the University of Maryland and MS in behavioral science from Johns Hopkins University and is a Fulbright scholar. Flaherty has over 25 years’ experience working in a variety of library settings, including academic, medical research, special and public. She has published in the academic literature in journals such as Library & Information Research (LISR); Library Quarterly; Public Library Quarterly; Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet (JCHI); Journal of Community Health; Reference Services Review; and the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. Her books include Promoting Individual and Community Health at the Library (American Library Association, 2018) and The Library Staff Development Handbook: How to Maximize Your Library’s Most Important Resource (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), which received a starred review in Library Journal and was "Book of the Week," in Against the Grain