Earned Degrees

• 2011 Masters of Library & Information Science, Valdosta State University
• 2000 Bachelors of Science in Science, Technology, and Culture, Georgia Inst. of Technology
• 1998 Bachelors of Science in Economics, Georgia Inst. of Technology

Employment History

• 2011- Librarian, Georgia Tech Library, Atlanta, GA
• 2006-2011 Library Associate, Georgia Tech Library, Atlanta, GA
• 2001-2006 Library Assistant, Georgia Tech Library, Atlanta, GA
• 2000-2001 Editorial Assistant, Eastgate Systems, Watertown, MA
• 1996-2000 Library Assistant, Georgia Tech Library, Atlanta, GA

Honors and Awards

• 2018 Frances Kaiser Award, Georgia Tech Library
• 2017 Up & Comers award, ATG Media / Charleston Library Conference
• 2012 Team Award (with Ameet Doshi), Georgia Library Association
• 2011 Burdell’s Best Award for Outstanding Faculty/Staff Advisor, President’s Council Governing Board and Georgia Tech Ambassadors
• 2011 9^th IFLA International Marketing Award (3^rd place) (with Ameet Doshi), International Federation of Library Associations

Librarianship at Georgia Tech

A.    Major Library Services and/or Programs

Public Engagement Librarian

• Create, coordinate, and support media initiatives for Library outreach
• Provide ideation, design, and production assistance to the campus community
• Project manager in the Library Next Portfolio
• Instructor or embedded librarian in a variety of classes
• Subject liaison to selected academic units

B.    Instruction

Georgia Tech For-Credit Courses

• GT-1000 First-year Seminar
• GT2801/8801 Intro to Podcasting
• LCC3836-HP The Literature of Work (co-instructor)
• LMC8803 Data, Design, and Society (embedded librarian)

Other Georgia Tech Instruction

• Course-integrated instruction in podcast composition
• Drop-in classes on Audacity & audio production, composition, and ideation

C.     Library Service Improvement, Innovations, and Other Contributions

• Co-lead, Lost in the Stacks website project, 2025
• Co-lead, Liaison Team Model Pilot project, 2025
• Data Literacy Working Group, 2025
• Organizer, Media Arts Day, 2024-
• Organizer, Long Now Lecture Series @ retroTECH, 2024-
• Artist-in-Residence project team, 2021-2022
• 50 Years of Science Fiction Celebration team, 2021
• Project Manager, Scholars Event Network Design Team, 2018 – 2020
• Future of Special Collections project team, 2017 – 2018
• Interactive Media Design Development project team, 2017 – 2018
• Knowledge Constellation Blue Sky Workshop, co-organizer, Nov 2-5 2016.
• Project Manager, Innovation & Ideation Studio Design Team, 2015 – 2016
• Digital Media Experience Design Team, 2015
• Virtual Browsing Design Team, 2015
• Make Your Library an Incubator for Learning workshop, coordinator, Oct 26 2013.
• Co-creator and co-producer of Lost in the Stacks radio program, 2010—present

 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities

A.    Publications

Books

• Bennett, C., Brown, S., Henson, B., Valk, A. (2014). Next-gen learning spaces. SPEC Kit, 342.

Refereed Book Chapters

• Bennett, C. (2026). Students on the Mic: Active Engagement in Podcast Composition Instruction.. In McClure, H., & Morin, L. (Eds.), Emergent Strategy in Library Instruction: Stories, Reflections, and Imaginings. Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press (Litwin Books).
• Bennett, C. (2023). 37: Charlie Bennett, Public Engagement Librarian, Georgia Tech Library. In Baker, D., & Lo, P. (Eds.), The marketing of academic, national, and public libraries worldwide. Cambridge, MA: Chandos Publishing (Elsevier).
• Bennett, C. (2019). Podcasting. In Braziller, A., Kleinfeld, E, & Georgia Tech’s Writing and Communication Program, WOVENText, Georgia Tech’s Bedford Book of Genres (393-397). Plymouth, MI: Bedford / St. Martins.
• Bennett, C., and Doshi, A. (2013). From Georgia Tech to the world: leveraging existing campus infrastructure to market the library to a global audience. In D. K. Gupta, C. Koontz, & A. Massisimo (Eds.), Marketing library and information services – II (195-202). Berlin: De Gruyter Saur.

Refereed Journal Articles

• Neeley, K., Norback, J., Bennett, C., and Laugelli, B. (2020). Communication across divisions: trends emerging from the 2019 annual conference of ASEE and some possibilities for strategic action. 2020 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference Proceedings. Washington, D.C.:  ASEE, 2020.
• Sorensen, M. S. A. (2018). Digital discovery and architectural interface design: prototyping architectural-scale interfaces for discovery across digital and tangible collections. Journal of Library Administration, 58(7). (Contributed work)
• Bennett, C., and Bodnar, J. (2010). Academic engagement in the library commons. Public Services Quarterly, 6(1).

B.    Other Publications and Creative Products

• Bennett, C. (2022). On the Air: How a Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio Show Made Me A Better Librarian. Georgia Library Quarterly, 59(1).
• Bennett, C. (2020, September 8). Lost in the Stacks: Nostalgia and Late Capitalism [radio special]. WREK Atlanta.
• Bennett, C. & Boulard, S. (2020, February 23). Alain Della Negra [radio special]. WREK Atlanta.  
• Bennett, C. & Hugonny, J. (2019, October 14). Oulimata Gueye [radio special]. WREK Atlanta. 
• Afflerbach, I. & Bennett, C.  (2016). What’s in a word? [radio miniseries]. WREK Atlanta. 
• Bennett, C., (2016) A library without books: working it out in public. Georgia Library Quarterly, 53 (1).
• Grimmet, B., Rascoe, F., Hagenmaier, W., Rolando, E., Street, T., & Bennett, C. (2014). Georgia Tech Library: Engineered for You (animated video). Atlanta, GA: Georgia Tech Library.
• Bennett, C. (Producer). (2013, October 21). Information Now: open access and the public good.
• Bennett, C. (2013). A letter from a new librarian. In Olin, J. (Ed.) Letters to a young librarian [Blog].
• Bennett, C. (2013). My own private library: a peek inside the personal library of a librarian. Georgia Library Quarterly, 50 (1).
• Bennett, C. (2007). A new story to tell: the East Commons at the Georgia Tech library. Georgia Library Quarterly, 43(4).
• Greco, D., and Bennett, C. (2001). How do you know if it’s art? Poets & Writers, 29(1).

C.     Presentations

Keynotes and invited presentations

• “Skills You’ll Wish You Learned Before Starting Your Podcast,” Podcasting Start-Up: Technology, Pre-Requisites, & Accessibility panel, Podcasting Pedagogy Symposium, Atlanta, Ga, Mar 4, 2023
• “Episode 4: Charlie,” invited guest, Library Failure Confessions, Ann Arbor: Samuel Hanson and Ashley Maynor, League of Awesome Librarians, Nov 30 2022.
• “Scylla & Charbides,” invited guest, tipsyturvy Ulysses, audio podcast, Atlanta: School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology, Jul 8 2022.
• “Michael Filler – That’s All Folks,” invited guest, Nanovation, audio podcast, Atlanta: School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Nov 20 2020.
• “Communicating Information Using Podcasts” w/ Fred Rascoe, Virtual Explorer’s Guild series Listen Up: Podcasts in the Classroom, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, GA, Oct 22 2020.
• “How To Plan Your First Podcast,” two-part webinar, Jersey City Free Public Library, Jersey City, NJ, Jun 5 & July 11 2020.
• “Failure Confessions: How To Not Write A Grant,” The Collective, Knoxville, TN, Mar 12 2020.
• “Sonic Literacy: a Manifesto for Libraries in the Age of Podcasts,” Carterette Series Webinars, webinar, Dec 11 2019.
• “Crit Lib, Capitalism, and Defending the Library,” with Ameet Doshi, keynote address, Mobius Consortium, Independence, MO, June 4 2018.
• “Up and Comers Award Recipients – Part 5,” invited guest, ATGthePodcast, Charleston: Against the Grain, Apr 16 2018.
• “What’s the Future?” with Ameet Doshi, keynote address, Access Services Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, Nov 16 2016.
• “The Conversation of Civilization,” invited speaker, Sunday Assembly, Atlanta, GA, Oct 16 2016.
• “Heat the Bonkers Out of It,” invited guest, Nanovation, Atlanta: School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Jun 15 2016.
• “Georgia Blood and Southern Love: Lost in the Stacks Live!” with Ameet Doshi, Hollis Gillespie, Wendy Hagenmaier, Monica Miller, Brian Panowich, and Fred Rascoe, commissioned by Decatur Book Festival, Eddie’s Attic, Decatur, GA, Mar 1 2016.
• “Thank You For Your Email, I Will Never Answer It,” invited guest, Nanovation, Atlanta: School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Feb 15 2016.
• “Reclaiming Dewey, Rebuilding Alexandria: the Library as an Essential Community Resource in the Digital Age,” Friends of the Augusta Library Annual Meeting, keynote speaker, Augusta, GA, Jan 25 2016.
• “Consilience with Pete and Charlie” with Pete Ludovice, keynote address, Southeastern Library Assessment Conference, Atlanta, GA, Nov 16 2015.
• “Tinker Teacher Maker Space,” keynote address, TCLC Annual Spring Program, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Apr 24 2015.
• “College: Scholarship, Service, Leadership, and Character,” invited speaker, National Honor Society Induction, Druid Hills High School, Atlanta, Georgia, Feb 5 2015.
• “Creative Collaboration & Useful Failure,” keynote address, CSRA Library Association Conference, Aiken, South Carolina, May 30 2014.
• “Reimagine Libraries,” TEDx Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia, Apr 5 2014.
• “Library on the Radio” with Ameet Doshi, Carterette Series Webinars, webinar, Jul 21 2010.
• “The Commons at the Georgia Tech Library” with Cari Lovins, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, Jun 17 2008.
• “Libraries and Librarians in the 21^st Century: Rebel Without a Clause,” invited guest, Inside the Black Box, [radio program], Atlanta: Radio Sandy Springs.

Submitted

• “Communicating Scholarship with the Community Through Podcasting,” with Fred Rascoe, USG Teaching & Learning Conference, Athens, GA, April 11, 2019.
• “Radio Free Library,” with Ameet Doshi, The Collective, Knoxville, TN, Mar 7 2019.
• “Let’s Get ‘Phygital’: Environments That Intersect the Physical and Digital Worlds,” with Stuart Romm & Brian Tanner, Society for College and University Planning Regional Conference, New Orleans, LA, Oct 24 2017.
• “The Library Uncommons: Designing Niche Learning Spaces,” with Sherri Brown & Ameet Doshi, The Collective, Knoxville, TN, Mar 3 2016.
• “Librarian Podcaster: A Report from the Studio,” GaCOMO 2015, Athens, GA, Oct 8 2015.
• “Over a Cup of Coffee: The Library Café,” with Ameet Doshi, GaCOMO 2015, Athens, GA, Oct 7 2015.
• “Small Audio Dynamite,” THATCamp Southeast 2014, Atlanta, Georgia, Mar 30 2014.
• “The Library is Not a Collection of Books,” TEDx Telfair Street, Augusta, Georgia, Jan 31 2014.
• “Tinker, Teacher, Maker, Space: Two Co-working Experiments in the Academic Library,” Library Information Technology Forum, Louisville, Kentucky, Nov 9 2013.
• “Lost in the Stacks: The Research Library Rock n’ Roll Radio Show” with Ameet Doshi, Georgia Council of Media Organizations Convention, Athens, Georgia, Oct 8 2011.
• “A Comedy of Errors: Library Marketing to the Youth Demographic” with Christian Steinmetz, Carterette Series Webinars, webinar, Jul 20 2011.
• “Getting on the Syllabus: Commons Programming with Individual Faculty,” Canadian Learning Commons Conference, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Jun 17 2010.
• “Perceptions & Proof: Assessment Experiences at Georgia Tech and Butler Community College” with Tom Erwin, webinar, Feb 16 2010.
• “Collaboration Between Public Services and Technical Services,” Electronic Resources & Libraries, Austin, Texas, Feb 2 2010.
• “The Third Heat: Faculty, Digital Repositories, and Unusual Bitstreams,” Electronic Resources & Libraries, Austin, Texas, Feb 1 2010.
• “The Space Is A Service, Too: Library Commons & Access Services,” Access Services Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, Nov 12 2009.
• “A Series of Interesting Failures: Refining a Library Commons,” Georgia Council of Media Organizations Convention, Columbus, Georgia, Oct 8 2009.
• “Getting Teachers Back In The Library,” GIL Users Group Meeting, online conference, May 21 2009.
• “Expected Outcomes of Information Commons In Academic Libraries,” Georgia Academic Library Research Forum, Atlanta, Georgia, May 8 2009.
• “Partnering With Faculty In Library Common Spaces” with Jon Bodnar, Georgia Council of Media Organizations Convention, Athens, Georgia, Oct 16 2008.
• “Bringing Circulation Into The 21st Century” with Stella Richardson, Karen Glover, & Joey Fones, Georgia Council of Media Organizations Convention, Jekyll Island, Georgia, Oct 18 2007.

Panels

• Moderator, “From Myth to Marvel: Elements in Science, Fiction, and Culture,” with Milton Davis, M.G. Finn, Deirdre Shoemaker, & Amanda Weiss, Georgia Tech Library, Atlanta, GA, Nov 7 2019.
• Moderator, “Emerging Technologies and Partnershipsfor Teaching and Learning,” with Shan Sutton, Greg Raschke, & Kelly Miller, Designing Libraries VIII, Atlanta, GA, Oct 8 2019.
• Moderator, “To Infinity & Beyond: Science, Fiction, and Popular Understandings of Outer Space,” with Jack McDevitt, Sidney Perkowitz, Nadia Szeinbaum, & Casey Alane Wilson, Atlanta Science Festival, Atlanta, GA, Mar 13 2019.
• Moderator, “Readability, Reusability, and Reproducibility,” with Rob Clewley, Paco Nathan, Carol Willing, and Daniel Wheeler, Jupyter Day Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, Mar 31 2018.
• “Beyond the Commons: Long-term Project Space in Academic Libraries,” with Kim Duckett, Brian Mathews, and Brittany Wofford, ACRL 2017, Baltimore, MD, Mar 23 2017.
• “Makerspace: Is It Right For Your Library,” with Marlan Brinkley, Michael Holt, and Andaiye Reeves, Carterette Series Webinars, webinar, Feb 26 2014.
• “How Cool is that Job? The Changing Role of Librarians” panel discussion, Georgia Council of Media Organizations Convention, Macon, Georgia, Oct 4 2012.
• “Making the Leap: Transitioning from Paraprofessional to Professional Librarian” panel discussion, Georgia Council of Media Organizations Convention, Athens, Georgia, Oct 8 2011.

D.     Other Scholarly and Creative Accomplishments

• Producer & co-host, radio program Lost in the Stacks, WREK Atlanta, 2010 – present.
• Co-creator and presenter, “Laptops, Mics, and Recording in Closets: Digital Drop In,” webinar series, 2019.
• Co-organizer, “Mobilizing History: Reflections on a Decade of Digital Humanities Practice on Two Continents,” Georgia Tech Library, Atlanta, GA, April 8 2019.
• Co-organizer, “A Conversation About Aliens, AIs, and Jack Benny with Science Fiction Author Jack McDevitt,” Georgia Tech Library, Atlanta, GA, March 14 2019.
• Producer & co-host, audio podcast Supercontext , 2016 – 2020.
• Creator, audio podcast Library 20/20, 2016 – 2020.
• Producer & co-host, audio podcast Consilience with Pete and Charlie, 2013-2017.
• Producer & co-host, radio program The North Avenue Lounge, WREK Atlanta, 2011 – 2020.

E.     Societal and Policy Impacts

• Creating a mental space for the public to engage with the questions “What is a digital library? What is a library in the 21^st century?”
• Developing publicly accessible scholarly communication for researchers at Georgia Tech