Previously sponsored by the Instruction Committee, the Spring Seminar is designed to inform library staff on instructional issues and provide a forum for discussion about instruction.
Ideas for future seminars:
Lisa Dush, dush@mit.edu from Writing Across the Curriculum. Could give a talk on "The Art of Persuasion" in which she talks about how to give a stellar presentation and offers some new techniques.
2008
[Didn't have a 2008 Spring Seminar.]
Topics to discuss:
- Budget $500
- Guidelines about giving an honorarium? Not really. 200ish
- Date
- Spring break?
- mid-April (Mark to check with Omar about date of CFG seminar)
- Avoid April 16th and 18th.
- Speaker
- Topic: Marketing/Outreach
- Possibly about scholarly communication.
- Ask Ellen for suggestions (Ellen could speak, but she's already doing a series on this; might be nice to hear from someone outside MIT
- Someone having to do with Open Access publishing
- Maybe something at a basic level What is open access?
- Level playing field, giving everyone an opportunity to get on same page
- Ask Ellen about whether there was a libraries role in the Open Access initiative at Harvard
- TSAC (Technical service and collections) - BLC talking about getting materials scanned to put into open access
- Topic: Marketing/Outreach
- Venue: Bush Room, Stata Room (possibly food outside) Nora
- Refreshments: Anita Checking with Carbury's? Spring Seminar planning --Brainstorming topics/speakers/timing
- Perhaps something related to reference and instruction?
- virtual services? Reference and instruction
- technology mediated services
- assessment of tutorials stuff? Having an open session on what we're learning?
- assessing student learning? Maybe Nelig speaker Megan Oakleaf?
- Bring in a speaker or just run this internal as a discussion? Are there any spring meetings in Boston where someone might be in town and willing to speak?
- Speakers from a NEASIST meeting that was in Providence (Heather)?
- Marketing as a topic? Include ISG and CFG? Applying creative ideas to market reference and instruction.
- Want someone in the Library world?
- Go for it!
- Bring this up in ISG and CFG
- Heather will represent RISG
2007
- 2007: Angie Locknar, Instruction Coordinator for Engineering and Science Libraries, MIT. "Reflections on 3.093: Information Exploration, Becoming a Savvy Scholar"