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 18^th.
• 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
• 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"