NISO Webinar, Maker Spaces - Things that Go Bop, Whizz, and Clank

Helping people gain a greater understanding of the information community — our issues and concerns, challenges and opportunities — is core to NISO's mission. Our events are a key element of this, with our popular webinar program at their heart. And, following the NISO/NFAIS merger earlier this year, all NISO members can now attend all 14 webinars in 2020 completely free of charge! This includes an unlimited number of places and full access to a recording of each webinar for anyone who is unable to attend the event itself.

Angi Faiks is the Associate Library Director and her professional interests include library innovation, information access and literacy advocacy, libraries as community space, maker movements, and working towards diversity in librarianship and STEM. She takes enormous pride in the thoughtful creativity and innovation exemplified by librarians in meeting the needs of community members. She focuses on fostering positive change, encouraging bold new ideas, and building partnerships in order to ensure excellence in what the library offers today and well into the future.

Grover Saunders is the Head of Innovation Spaces for JMU Libraries and has dedicated his entire career to helping faculty make digital tools an integral and transformative part of their teaching experience. Grover loves kung fu and is a freelance web designer, an adjunct instructor for JMU’s School of Media Arts and Design, and a two-time pie-eating champion.

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.

Keven Jeffery is an Associate Librarian with San Diego State University’s Library & Information Access where he is responsible for investigating emerging digital technologies and applications. Keven received a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. He has presented at national conferences and has written articles that have appeared in the Journal of the Medical Library Association, Medical Reference Services Quarterly, Library Hi Tech, the Journal of Web Librarianship and Evidence Based Library and Information Practice.