Lee Yen is the Life and Bio Science Subject Librarian at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Library in Saudi Arabia, responsible for reference services, collection development and instructional and outreach services. Having taught at various educational institutions before making the switch to librarianship, she leverages on her pedagogical training and experience in classroom teaching in her involvement in user-education and information literacy in her new profession as an academic librarian. Lee Yen is interested in understanding the information and research literacy of graduate students and how it affects their research work.

Proposal Title: A study of information literacy of graduate students in the Middle East

San José Supervisor: Geoffrey Liu

Education:

• Bachelor of Arts, National University of Singapore
• Postgraduate Diploma in Education, National Institute of Education
• MA (Applied Linguistics), Nanyang Technological University
• MSc (Information Studies), Nanyang Technological University

Current or Most Recent Position:

• Subject Specialist, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology