SDSU University Library
Jenny Wong-Welch

Jenny Wong-Welch (She/Her/Hers)

STEM Librarian; build IT Makerspace Director

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
Memberships
  • American Library Association
  • American Society For Engineering Education
Grants
  • Expansion of build IT @SDSU Library, San Diego State University, 2015-2016, 11,713 USD

Scholarship

Academic Publications

Jenny Wong-Welch; Richard M. Cripps
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2023, journal article
Jenny Wong-Welch; Casabar, C.; White, L.; Jalal, R.; A. Jackson; C. Pierard; S. Schadl
Scholarship in the Sandbox: Academic Libraries as Laboratories, Forums, and Archives for Student Work, 2019, book chapter
Jenny Wong-Welch; E. Rinto; J. Watts; R. Mitola
Peer-Assisted Learning in Academic Libraries, 2017, book chapter
Keven Jeffery; Houk, K.M.; Nielsen, J.M.; Jenny Wong-Welch
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2017, journal article
Houk, K.M; Nielsen, J.M; Jenny Wong-Welch
Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, book

Academic Conferences

Empowering Ourselves Through Community to Grow Together and Teach Better
California Conference on Library Instruction, 2023, conference abstract
Readers’ Advisory as Information Literacy Programming: Why Academic Librarians should be Recommending too
Jenny Wong-Welch; Nielsen, J.
American Library Association (ALA) Annual, Chicago, IL., 2023, conference poster
Jenny Wong-Welch; Cota, M.; Mara Cota; Erika Esquivel
84th World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) - International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), Dublin, Ireland., 2022, conference poster
Coalition for Networked information, San Diego, CA., 2018, conference paper
build IT @SDSU Library: A Reason to have a Makerspace in Academic Library
International Symposium of Academic Makerspaces, Cleveland, OH., 2017, conference poster

How to Leverage your Academic Library’s Makerspace to Help Advance Your Local Community
American Libraries Association Annual, Chicago, IL., 2017, conference poster
New Media Consortium Summer Conference, Rochester, NY., 2016, conference poster
Houk, K.; Nielsen, J.; Jenny Wong-Welch
California Academic and Research Libraries (CARL) Conference, Costa Mesa, CA, 2016, conference paper
American Library Association Annual, San Francisco, CA., 2015, conference poster
3D Technology in the Academic Library: Informing, Collaborating, and Implementing
Jenny Wong-Welch; Nielsen, J.
Association of College & Research Libraries, Portland, OR., 2015, conference poster
Creating and Sustaining a Digital Syllabus Collection: A Collaborative Approach for Librarians and Academic Units
Keven Jeffery; Katherine Houk; Jenny Wong-Welch; Jordan Nielsen
University of San Diego Digital Initiatives Symposium, 2015, conference paper

Dissemination

Sympson, P.; Jenny Wong-Welch; Palumbo, L.; Flury Carlson, N.
Sci-Tech News, 2013, newsletter article

Other

O 2º Workshop das Bibliotecas de Ensino Superior - Novos espaços e estratégias para a aprendizagem, fluência digital e experimentação, 2020, other