Kaeli M. Gretter is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi in the School of Library and Information Sciences. Kaeli earned her PhD at the University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences with a concentration in Library and Information Studies. She received her Bachelor’s in History from The University of Iowa, and her Master of Arts in Library and Information Science, and Graduate Book Arts Certificate from The University of Iowa School of Library Science and Center for The Book.

Her research interests include, library anxiety, academic library building design, information literacy, library pedagogy, library assessment, diversity and inclusion in libraries, and the history of the book.

Her research focuses on the relationship between physical library environments and emotional experiences, with particular attention paid to the embodied experiences of library environments and the emotional and physiological effects of physical library environments on students’ use of academic libraries. Her initial publication on the topic is available in portal: Libraries and the Academy and can be accessed at doi.org/10.1353/pla.2021.0027.