Salene is PhD candidate in Geography at the University of Auckland. She is currently undertaking a doctorate that investigates the public library as place in the contemporary city. Her wider theoretical interests span social and cultural geography, specifically walking as embodied practice and she dreams to write an article on island based reality dating shows.
As one space closes, another opens. Salene Schloffel-Armstrong revisits the closure of the Elam Fine Arts Library and looks to where Samoa House Library is headed next.