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.
2/24 - Following up with Courtney Crummet who has seen the talk before, to determine if this would be an appropriate topic for spring seminar.

2009

Lisa Horowitz and Mark Szarko will discuss their experience with Immersion.
--90 min, 2 hrs max
--everyone should walk out of the room with smg practical they can use
--would be helpful to put Immersion in context (what it is, etc)
--give people an opportunity to share similar things that they're working on
(since we don't get many chances to do that)

In terms of timing, I'm assuming by late May we're talking about the last 2
weeks in May.

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"