Office of the Director: Presentations, FY 2008

From 2020 onward, presentations will be stored in the Libraries shared G-Drive, All-Lib Presentations and Documents

SIMILE Project / E-Theses / Dewey Renovation

Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Thursday, May 29, 2008, 10:00am to 12:00 noon

• SIMILE Project Review - MacKenzie Smith
• E-Theses at MIT:  Update on the PETE Project - Craig Thomas
• Dewey Renovation Plans - Millicent Gaskell

MIT Libraries All-PS Meeting

Improving Services: Local Initiatives in Public Services Units

Thursday, May 22, 2008, Bush Room, 10-105

Agenda:

• Implementing the Recommendations of the Printing, Copying, Scanning Task Force
  Christine Quirion
• Planning for the 2008 Library Survey
  Alex Caracuzzo, Lisa Horowitz, Kate McNeill

Presentation for University of Vermont Library staff, Burlington, VT

Friday, March 28, 2008

• United We Stand: Divided We Fail? Challenges and Opportunities in Combining Service Points -  Lisa R. Horowitz

MIT Libraries All-Staff Meeting

Project SimpLR / Worldcat Local update / Changes to Access Policy: Implementing the Recommendations of the Task Force on Public Access to the MIT Libraries

January 30-31, 2008

• Project SimpLR update  - Nicole Hennig
• Worldcat Local update  - Christine Moulen (slides included with Project SimpLR pdf, below)
• Changes to Access Policy - Steven Gass, Stephanie Hartman

Improving Services: Local Initiatives in Public Services Units

Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007

• Dewey: Improving Services: Giving Our Users What They Want - Millicent Gaskell and Alex Caracuzzo

• Document Services: In the style of documentarian Ken Burns - Christine Quirion

• ESL: Introduction - Anna Gold, A Toolbox for Outreach - Tracy Gabridge

• Prof. Don Sadoway's Solid State Chemistry course - Angie Locknar

• Rotch: integrating content and services for users - Ann Whiteside, Jolene de Verges, and Lisa Sweeney

• Humanities: Improving Services with Local Initiatives - Theresa Tobin

CSAIL / MIT Libraries seminar, talk following John Wilbanks (Science Commons)

November 13, 2007

• "Promise, Permissions, Persistence, & Partnerships" - Anna Gold (Head, Engineering & Science Libraries)

MIT Libraries All-Staff Meeting

October 31 - November 1

• Performance and Salary Review Processes  - Nina Davis-Millis, Robin Deadrick, Millicent Gaskell, Keith Glavash, Rebecca Lubas

• Review of DSpace@mit Roadmap & Plans for Incorporating DOME and Other Related Initiatives - Sean Thomas

Library Research Seminar IV, London, Ontario

October 10 - 12, 2007

• Use of Collaborative Spaces in an Academic Library - Howard Silver