Mary O’Kelly

Mary O’Kelly is the Associate Dean for Education and User Services at Western Michigan University. Previously she served as the head of instructional services at Grand Valley State University, where she was responsible for developing and evaluating a training program for student peer research consultants in the GVSU Knowledge Market. Her work at both institutions has been deeply involved with student-focused academic programming, professional development for faculty and staff, embedding information literacy into the curriculum, online and hybrid learning, and assessment. Mary has published and presented nationally on peer research consulting programs in academic libraries and has a deep interest in the relationship between library services and student success.