Jenny Wong-Welch

Biography

Jenny Wong-Welch is the STEM Librarian at San Diego State University. In addition to her responsibilities of providing research assistance and library instruction for the College of Engineering and the departments of Astronomy, Physics, and Mathematics/Statistics. She is the Director of build IT @ SDSU Library, a student-run makerspace designed to foster creativity and innovation by providing an infrastructure for DIY learning of technology. Jenny received a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics & Economics from the University of California, San Diego and a Master of Science in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has presented and published on the role of libraries as makerspaces on the academic campus and the library’s ability to use the process of creating to make information literacy more tangible.