{"id":1760,"date":"2019-02-21T05:21:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T04:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2019-02-25T00:04:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T23:04:14","slug":"meet-the-candidates-jieyin-feng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/2019\/02\/21\/meet-the-candidates-jieyin-feng\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the candidates: Jieyin Feng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2019\/02\/Jleyin-Feng.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1761\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2019\/02\/Jleyin-Feng-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2019\/02\/Jleyin-Feng-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2019\/02\/Jleyin-Feng-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2019\/02\/Jleyin-Feng.jpg 602w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Jieyin Feng<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Shanghai Library<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>China<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I received a MLS from the University of South Florida, USA in 1998, and since then have worked as a reference librarian in the Shanghai Library, China, providing services to the general public in a city with a population of over 25 million. We also receive readers from all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>I served two terms as a standing committee member of the IFLA Reference and Information Services section (2003-2011), then two terms for the Government Information and Official Publications section (2011-2019). I hope my experience working for these two sections and as a long-standing librarian in a large public library can allow me to make more contributions to the Public Libraries section.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also willing to participate in all the activities involving the section, work with my international colleagues as a trustworthy member, and help to advocate the missions and goals of the section.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about voting for members of the Public Libraries Standing Committee take the time to read our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/2019\/02\/19\/voting-is-now-open\/\">post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jieyin Feng Shanghai Library China I received a MLS from the University of South Florida, USA in 1998, and since then have worked as a reference librarian in the Shanghai Library, China, providing services to the general public in a city with a population of over 25 million. We also receive readers from all over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":723,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,9765],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-china","tag-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/723"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1794,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions\/1794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}