Events / Reports

SCIL's Guide to Effective Library Assignments

2008

SCIL Works 2008 was on "Putting Theory into Practice: The 'Why' Behind Instructional Strategies". It was held January 25, 2008, at the Claremont Colleges. Thanks to everyone who helped make this event a success, and watch this space for reports and photographs.

2007

SCIL sponsored the 2007 LOEX (Library Orientation Exchange) conference in San Diego, May 3 - 5, 2007. For more information see our LOEX homepage.

The theme of SCIL Works 2007 was"21st Century Librarianship: Classroom Management in Today's Information Age". It was held on Friday, February 2 at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Pictures and reports and available online.

2006

The 2006 Spring Program, "Assessing the One-Shot", was held on May 19 at Scripps College (of the Claremont Colleges). It was a follow-up program to last year's event by the same speaker, Dr. Jeff Liles. Dr. Liles's Powerpoint presentation, a bibliography, and photographs of the event are available on the program page.

SCIL presented a CARL pre-conference on April 21, 2006: "Beyond Usage Statistics: WASC and Library Contributions to Educational Effectiveness and Student Learning." The presenters were Amy Wallace, CSU Channel Islands; Val Ontell, San Diego Mesa College; and Tom Carter, St. Mary's College of California. Val's talk on her college's accreditation experience is now available as an MP3 sound file, in three versions to suit your connection speed: CD-quality (30MB), IPod quality (12MB), and lower-quality (6MB). Tom's talk is available as a transcript in Word format.

SCIL Works 2006 has come and gone. The program is still available in PDF format, and a report is available in MS Word.

2005

In May SCIL presented our 2005 SCIL Spring Program: "It's NOT about Time: Making the Most of One-shots".

SCIL hosted a pre-conference at the 2005 ACRL Conference, entitled "Trading Spaces: Balancing Space, Technology, and Learning". Click to view a PowerPoint slideshow on Technology, Space, & Learning, a Word document summarizing Activity 1, and a Word document that summarizes Activity 2.

See why our first annual SCIL Works (formerly SCIL Open House) was such a success!

2004

Connecting with the Net Generation: Learning Styles & Technology
A CARL Annual Pre-Conference (PowerPoint presentation in HTML format)

The Angle of Repose: Balancing Physical Space, Technology, and Learning (CARL Preconference) -- Summary of the responses to Activity 1, in Microsoft Word format.

SCIL hosted an ACRL/IIL Regional Immersion program on July 22-27, 2004.

Winter 2004 Open House:

2003


SEAL-South/CARLDIG/SCIL Program:

Spring Program: Moving from Traditional BI to an Integrated Information Literacy Program

Winter 2003 Open House:

2002

Spring Program, "Assessing Our Impact: Making the Transformation to Assessment"

Winter 2002 Open House - "Tidal Wave II and Library Instruction":

2001

Winter 2001 Open House:

2000

Summer 2000 Program: "The Low-Down on High-Tech Tutorials"