Three Non-US Perspectives on the COVID-19 Experience in Libraries
Interactive Panel | Tuesday May 18, 2021 | 11:00am – 12:30pm EST
Our presenters’ theme would be their atypical work experiences across different cities.
Jennifer will share her perspective as a privileged economic migrant (White American woman in Shanghai). Colleges and graduate schools have been online–successfully–for over a decade. Our students are not alone. This is the new normal and it is cool.
Sarah will share her perspective both as a library student doing her fieldwork on a controversial topic during the lockdown in Singapore, as well as a library staff managing on-site student workers who live on campus while she worked from home.
Edward will share his perspective as a parent working entirely from home, and with a twist: connecting with colleagues in an entirely different timezone while prevented from entering the U.S. due to a President’s executive order.
These presenters will then facilitate several breakout rooms. Our pedagogical goal is to show what a good, interactive session can be.
Presenters: Sarah Ruslan, Edward Junhao Lim, & Jennifer AW Stubbs
Sarah Ruslan is a Circulation Librarian at Yale-NUS College, and has recently completed her library degree in 2020. She is interested in the intersections between library practice and social justice work, and critical and creative approaches towards information literacy and user engagement. She hopes to inspire a more self-reflexive and inclusive library practice in Singapore.
Edward Junhao Lim is the Business & Entrepreneurship Librarian at the University of Connecticut. He was previously at New York University Shanghai, in China. Prior to that, he was the business librarian with stints in interlibrary loan, marketing, & user experience at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Ask him anything on Twitter @BarbarianEd.
Jennifer Stubbs is a Reference and Research Services Librarian for Social Sciences and Economics at NYU Shanghai, where she has spent three years supporting instruction and connecting with the university community. Her priorities are Open Scholarship for inclusion and diversification and teaching with Wikipedia to champion self-agency and job-ready skills.