Karen BordonaroKaren Bordonaro is the Liaison Librarian at the James A. Gibson Library, Brock UniversityCanada. She has been a practicing librarian for over 30 years, working with international students for most of that time. She works extensively with internationa students and scholars in her current full time librarian position, as well as working as a part time ESL instructor. In addition, she has a very personal interest in international librarianship from working in a Canadian library environment as an American in a border area (the Niagara region). Karen has a bachelor's degree in German and Spanish, and master's degrees in German, Library and Information Studies, and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). She also has a Ph.D. in Foreign and Second Language Education. Her research interests to date have focused on library learning and language learning, the use of libraries by ESL students, and how internationalization is practiced in German academic libraries. Read More Read Less