I am Jen Van Ness and this website is a compendium of my graduate work in library science at The University of North Texas. I've most recently worked as a Library Assistant at Canadian Academy, a premier international K-12 school in Kobe, Japan. My previous position was as a Library Assistant at Shanghai American School in Shanghai, China. I have over five years of professional school library experience. My aim is to work as a full-faculty teacher librarian at an international school. To this end, I am currently completing a Masters in Library Science at the University of North Texas with a focus on school librarianship. I received my teaching certification from Moreland University in Washington, DC in January of 2023.
This ePortfolio is an in-depth collection of resources, articles, work product and teaching samples I have produced over the years as a library science graduate student. The portfolio showcases my major achievements in the curriculum that dovetail with American Library Association's core competencies and displays my continued professional development and mastery of Web2.0 technologies.