Bibliotherapy
Peter Cannon, PhD
Communications Officer School of Information
University of South Florida
Bio
Peter Cannon, PhD, is the Communication Officer for the University of South Florida’s School of Information and a veteran of library service with many years of working in the field of information science. He is also the director of the Drug Abuse Comprehensive Coordinating Office (DACCO) Library, an information center designed to deliver bibliotherapy services to women in a residential treatment center. He received his PhD from the University of South Florida where he studies the neurorhetorics of information science and teaches visual medical 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.