ACRL New England Chapter News Online

ISSN 1527-0106

Spring 2004, Number 102

In This Issue (Home):

President's Letter

Election Results

C.E. Committee Chair Needed

Librarian of the Year Award

Annual Conference Reports

National Legislative Day Report

Interest Group Reports:
Access Services (ASIG)
Information Technology (ITIG)
Instruction (NELIG)
Online Course Info. (LOCI)
Women's Studies

Annual Reports

Board Meeting Minutes, February 11th, 2004 (.pdf)

Calendar Listings

New England Library Instruction Group

Christopher Cox, Chair
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Our most recent NELIG meeting was held on Friday, May 14th at Olin College of Engineering. Howard Silver, Associate Head of Science Library & Anne Graham, Civil Engineering Librarian and GIS Liaison from MIT spoke about library participation in the Terrascope program http://web.mit.edu/terrascope/www/, an experimental learning community at MIT that is part of a family of integrated studies programs.

The NELIG Annual Program, "Creative Collaborations: It Takes a Campus to Educate a Student," will be held on June 11 from 9 - 3:30 at Tufts University in Boston, MA. Keith Barker - Associate Vice Provost, Undergraduate Education and Director of the Institute for Teaching & Learning at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, will be the keynote speaker. 14 presentations detailing various collborations will follow. The cost to attend the program is $25 for ACRL/NE members, $30 for non-members. You can register to attend at http://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/nelig/2004/register.html.

Barbara Kenney from Roger Williams University will take over as Chair for the 2004-2005, with Sandra Rothenberg from Framingham State serving as Chair-Elect and Mary MacDonald from URI as Secretary.

See the NELIG web site for more details of interest group activities.