Char Booth is an E-Learning Librarian at the University of California, Berkeley. A 2007 ALA Emerging Leader and 2008 Library Journal “Mover and Shaker”, Char blogs about library futures and technology literacy at info-mational. She advocates for library cultures of experimentation and assessment, explores free and open source solutions to library sustainability, and promotes the integration of instructional design and pedagogical training in library education.

Char is best known for her work in developing web-based voice and video reference and education programs at the Ohio University Libraries, and recently (May 2009) published “Informing Innovation: Tracking Student Interest in Emerging Library Technologies at Ohio University (A Research Report).”

Gang member for:

• March 2008: Code4lib
• July 2008: ALA – Anaheim