Jenny Wong-Welch (She/Her/Hers)
STEM Librarian; build IT Makerspace Director; Head of Research, Instruction, Outreach
ORCID iD
Academic Rank: Librarian; Tenured
(619) 594-1352
jwongwelch@sdsu.edu
Office: Love Library 250
University Library,
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive,
San Diego, CA 92182-8050
Professional History
- STEM Librarian, 2014—Present
Library, San Diego State University - Research Librarian for Engineering, 2013—2014
Library, University of Rochester - Pre-Professional Graduate Assistant, 2011—2013
Grainger Engineering Library Information Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Education
- Master of Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2013
- Bachelor of Arts, University of California San Diego, 2010
- Associate of Arts, San Diego Mesa College, 2008
Grants
- Jenny Wong-Welch, Expansion of build IT @SDSU Library, San Diego State University, 2015
Select Professional Activities
- Jenny Wong‐Welch & Richard M. Cripps (2023). A collaborative approach to promote use of 3D printing in a biology research laboratory, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education. 10.1002/bmb.21775 [JOURNAL ARTICLE]
- Jenny Wong-Welch & Nielsen, J. (2023). Readers’ Advisory as Information Literacy Programming: Why Academic Librarians should be Recommending too, American Library Association (ALA) Annual, Chicago, IL. [CONFERENCE POSTER]
- Jenny Wong-Welch, Cota, M. & Esquivel, E. (2022). Becoming an Insta-Influencer: How Librarians Inspired Connection by Sharing their own Voices in Times of Uncertainty, 84th World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) - International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), Dublin, Ireland. [CONFERENCE POSTER]
- Jenny Wong-Welch (2020). Everything is Awesome!: Building, Collaborating, and Learning in a Library Makerspace [Keynote], O 2º Workshop das Bibliotecas de Ensino Superior - Novos espaços e estratégias para a aprendizagem, fluência digital e experimentação [OTHER]
- Jenny Wong-Welch, Jenny Wong-Welch, Casabar, C., White, L., Jalal, R., A. Jackson, C. Pierard & S. Schadl (2019). Students as Lab Leaders: The Role of Master Builders in the build IT Makerspace @ San Diego State University Library, Scholarship in the Sandbox: Academic Libraries as Laboratories, Forums, and Archives for Student Work [BOOK CHAPTER]
- Jenny Wong-Welch (2017). build IT @SDSU Library: A Reason to have a Makerspace in Academic Library , International Symposium of Academic Makerspaces, Cleveland, OH. [CONFERENCE POSTER]
- Jenny Wong-Welch (2017). How to Leverage your Academic Library’s Makerspace to Help Advance Your Local Community, American Libraries Association Annual, Chicago, IL. [CONFERENCE POSTER]
- Jeffery, K.M., Houk, K.M., Nielsen, J.M. & Wong-Welch, J.M. (2017). Digging in the mines: Mining course syllabi in search of the library, Evidence Based Library and Information Practice. 10.18438/b8gp81 [JOURNAL ARTICLE]
- Jenny Wong-Welch, Jenny Wong-Welch, E. Rinto, J. Watts & R. Mitola (2017). Master Builders of build IT @San Diego State University Library, Peer-Assisted Learning in Academic Libraries [BOOK CHAPTER]
- Jenny Wong-Welch & Jeffery, K. (2016). The Master Builders of an Academic Library Makerspace, New Media Consortium Summer Conference, Rochester, NY. [CONFERENCE POSTER]
- Houk, K., Nielsen, J. & Jenny Wong-Welch (2016). Demonstrating the Academic Library's Value through Research Data Management Services, California Academic and Research Libraries (CARL) Conference, Costa Mesa, CA [CONFERENCE PAPER]
- Jenny Wong-Welch (2015). build IT @SDSU Library, Insights from an Academic Library Student-Run Makerspace, Fablearn, Stanford, CA. [CONFERENCE PAPER]
- Jackson, P., Jarocki, Z., & Jenny Wong-Welch (2015). But I found it on Google: Teaching college students Critical Digital Literacy, American Library Association Annual, San Francisco, CA. [CONFERENCE POSTER]
- Jenny Wong-Welch & Nielsen, J. (2015). 3D Technology in the Academic Library: Informing, Collaborating, and Implementing, Association of College & Research Libraries, Portland, OR. [CONFERENCE POSTER]
- Sympson, P., Jenny Wong-Welch, Palumbo, L. & Flury Carlson, N. (2013). Engineering Division, Sci-Tech News [NEWSLETTER ARTICLE]
- Houk, K.M, Houk, K.M, Nielsen, J.M, Nielsen, J.M & Jenny Wong-Welch Toward Inclusive Academic Librarian Hiring Practices, Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association [BOOK]
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