Reflective Teaching, Effective Learning: Instructional Literacy for Library Educators
Char Boothis E-Learning Librarian at the University of California at Berkeley. A 2007 ALA Emerging Leader and 2008Library JournalMover and Shaker, Char blogs about library futures, instructional design, and technology literacy. She advocates for the integration of pedagogical training in library education, informing user services through local research, creating library cultures of experimentation and assessment, and exploring open, accessible, and collaborative solutions to library sustainability. In 2009 Char publishedInforming Innovation: Tracking Student Interest in Emerging Library Technologies, and her writing can be found in publications such asLibrary JournalandInternet Reference Services Quarterly. She frequently presents and consults on teaching, instructional design, and technology effectiveness, and completed a Master's of Educational Technology at Ohio University in 2008, an MSIS at the University of Texas at Austin's School of Information in 2005, and a BA in History at Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 2001.