Ash Barber is the OER Collective Senior Coordinator at the Council of Australasian University Librarians (CAUL). Her substantive position is Academic Librarian at the University of South Australia. Throughout her career in university libraries, her work has had a keen focus on the promotion and integration of open educational practices and development of inclusive open educational resources.

Ash is also Chair of the Open Education Conference Board of Directors and Co-Convenor of the ASCILITE Australasian Open Educational Practice Special Interest Group (OEP SIG). Through a LATN Fellowship, she developed EmpoweredOER which provides practical tools for embedding equity in OER.

She is driven by lifelong learning (AKA insatiable curiosity) and empowering others through equitable access to information. Find her everywhere @AshTheLibrarian.