Lab Coordinator
Peter Cannon, PhD, is an experienced educator and a veteran of library service with many years of working in the field of information science. He is also the Lab Coordinator for the USFSI Responsive Librarianship Lab, the data-driven initiative that designs therapeutic library services for the USF community and other populations in need. He received both his PhD and MLIS from the University of South Florida where he studies the neurorhetorics of information science and teaches using the principles of rhetoric. His current research applies findings from the neurosciences, which suggest reading fiction may improve an individual’s socio-cognitive abilities, to the development of therapeutic library collections. He is also researching how images in graphic novels can help develop or improve socio-cognitive skills. To read some of Dr. Cannon's more recent research, visit his SSRN author page.
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About Peter Cannon
Peter Cannon, PhD, is an experienced educator and a veteran of library service with many years of working in the field of information science. He is also the Lab Coordinator for the USFSI Responsive Librarianship Lab, the data-driven initiative that designs therapeutic library services for the USF community and other populations in need. He received both his PhD and MLIS from the University of South Florida where he studies the neurorhetorics of information science and teaches using the principles of rhetoric. His current research applies findings from the neurosciences, which suggest reading fiction may improve an individual’s socio-cognitive abilities, to the development of therapeutic library collections. He is also researching how images in graphic novels can help develop or improve socio-cognitive skills. To read some of Dr. Cannon's more recent research, visit his SSRN author page.
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