Maureen Barry

Maureen Barry is assistant professor, reference and instruction librarian at Bowling Green State University in northwest Ohio. She founded the Service Learning Librarian website.  She partners with the departments of History, Social Work, Criminal Justice, and Gerontology, and provides support for the library instruction program in the undergraduate writing curriculum. Maureen’s research interests include the intersections between academic libraries, information literacy and civic engagement, particularly service-learning, along with college research readiness and strengths-based approaches to teaching information literacy. Prior to returning to BGSU, her alma mater, Maureen served as First Year Experience/Student Success Librarian at Wright State University in Dayton, OH for nearly 14 years.