Research Interests

• Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning (CPDWL)
• Cataloguing and Metadata
  
• Librarianship trends and development
• Reference Services
  

Select Publications 

• Nicholas, Pauline, Jerdaine Sterling, Rochelle Davis, Jessica C. Lewis, Faith McKoy-Johnson Karlene Nelson, Yolanda Tugwell and Karen Tyrell. "Bringing the library to you! The halls of residence librarian program at the University of the West Indies, Mona Library." New Library World 116, no. 5/6 (March 2015): 316-35.

• Tyrell, Karen. “Librarians’ Attitudes Towards Continuing Professional Development in Two Jamaican Universities.” Caribbean Library Journal 3, (2015): 1-16.
• Tyrell, Karen.  “Successful Models of CPDWL at The University of the West Indies, Mona.” 2011.
• Karen Tyrell. "Mortenson Center Associates Program Highlights." LIAJA Magazine, November 2018, no. 01,
  

      Awards

• 2018 Susan Schnuer Associate Leadership Honor