Agenda:
 

7:30am – 9:00am Registration and Coffee

9:00am – 9:30am Introductions and Outline of day's events

9:30am – 10:00am Exhibiting Awesome Outreach: Bringing Traveling Exhibits Through Your Door 
Speaker: Dawn Stahura, Research & Instruction Librarian, Wellesley College

One unique way to promote outreach on your campus is through traveling exhibits. Contrary to popular belief, they are not difficult to obtain and are a lot of fun to host. In this talk, I will discuss where to look for traveling exhibits, how to make those first connections, and brainstorm ideas on who to collaborate with on campus for the best results.

10:00am - 10:15am Break

10:15am – 11:15am Typewriters in the Woods: Creating Vibrant Programming Using “Collective Awesome”
Speakers:
Emily Alling, Library Director, Marlboro College
Jodi Clark, Director of Housing and Residential Life, Marlboro College

At Marlboro College, a tiny residential liberal arts college in rural Vermont, the library is an integral part of students’ lives, both academically and socially. Creative partnerships between the library and the offices of Admissions, Residence Life, and Alumni Relations provide an opportunity for positive interactions with and support of students at all points in the enrollment cycle -- from recruitment to retention to post-graduation engagement. 

The focus of this presentation will be a series of highly successful events co-sponsored by the Library and Residence Life. We’ll describe our collaborative process for event planning (which includes students), talk about attendance and outcomes, and discuss the importance of academic/social programming on a small, isolated, bookish campus.

11:15am – 12:15pm Late Night Laser Tag in the Library and Other Tales of Systematic, Cross-Departmental Collaboration 
Speakers:
Shanti Freundlich, Liaison Librarian, Simmons College
Mirna Turcios, Library Assistant, Simmons College

Shanti and Mima will present on Simmon’s efforts to develop a more holistic and systematic approach to collaborations with Student Life and other Academic Services, and how student-driven requests have helped serve as catalysts for these efforts. The Library has collaborated with Student Life to offer Late Night Library Laser Tag, A Literary Walking Tour of Boston, DIY Snickers Bars, an Online Filter Bubble workshop for Simmons Student Health Educators, and partnered with academic departments to produce and market a Streaming Media Modern Language Film Festival.

Through this presentation participants will become familiar with strategies to connect library-driven events to the larger student experience, identify key stakeholders in the planning process, and tie information literacy programming into outreach events.

12:15pm – 1:15pm Lunch

1:15pm – 2:15pm Radical Retention: Towards a New Model of Curricular Collaboration between Libraries & Student Affairs
Speakers:
Caro Pinto, Library & Instructional Technology Liaison, Mount Holyoke College
Alice Whiteside, Librarian & Instructional Technology Consultant, Mount Holyoke College

Join us for a lively session about building programming to support curricular initiatives to ensure student success. We will present three case studies representing steps Mount Holyoke College LITS is taking towards radical retention of our students: our orientation revolution and first year experience programming, structuring the sophomore year, and new opportunities presented by curriculum-to-career initiatives. Break out discussions will empower you to to jump start programming to better support your students in line with your institution’s strategic initiatives.

2:15pm – 2:25pm Break 

2:25pm – 3:15pm Collaborative Breakout Sessions & Wrap-up

3:15pm End