Rate My Professor Denise Shereff

Denise Shereff serves as Associate Professor of Instruction and Director of the Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) Program in the School of Information within the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Florida. She earned her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, with a concentration in Instructional Technology, from the USF College of Education. Shereff also holds a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of South Carolina and a Bachelor of Arts from Austin Peay State University. She completed the National Library of Medicine Spring 2010 fellowship program in biomedical informatics at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Shereff maintains distinguished level membership in the Medical Library Association’s Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP-D) and Level II Consumer Health Information Specialization.

Her research specializations include online interprofessional communities of practice employing scenario-based games for Responsive Librarianship training, consumer health information, health information literacy, and health communication. As a member of the USF School of Information Responsive Librarianship Lab, she functions as Senior Instructor and Coordinator of Fieldwork and Assessment. Shereff teaches courses focused on consumer health information, health information literacy, and health communication. Throughout her career at USF, including prior roles such as Instructor II, she has contributed to advancements in library education and practice. Key publications feature "Librarian and Social Work Identity in an Online Interprofessional Community of Practice for Responsive Librarianship Training" (2023, Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association, with Y. Lou), "Moving Beyond the Book List: Building a Pediatric Responsive Library Program" (2022, Journal of Hospital Librarianship, with N. Greene Taylor, B. Baum, J. Chan, and P. Cannon), "Mental Health Literacy and Responsive Librarianship" (in press, chapter in Health Literacy and Libraries edited by A. Vardell and D. Charbonneau, with M. Fritche), and earlier reviews including "Electronic Books for Biomedical Information" and "Consumer Health Complete" (2010, Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries). Shereff has co-led projects funded by LSTA grants to develop pediatric responsive library programs and interprofessional training, enhancing the integration of research and practical health librarianship services.