Friday, February 16

2:30 - 3 pm

Registration
Pick up symposium packet outside OLIN 105

3:00

Welcome and Project Overview:
James W. Hunt (Acting Provost and Dean of the Faculty, Southwestern)
Wayne Anderson (President, ACS)
Barbara Halbert (Director of Library Services, ACS)
Suzanne Bonefas (Director of Technology Programs, ACS)

3:20

Opening Remarks: Clara Yu, C.V. Starr Professor of Linguistics and Language & Director of Project 2001, Center for Educational Technology, Middlebury College

4:00

Response: Ken Abernethy (Director of the Rushing Center for Advanced Technology, Furman)
Lynne Brody (Dean of Library Services, Southwestern)
Question and Answer

4:30

Break: Refreshments outside OLIN 105

4:45 - 6:00

Discussion continued and Campus Reports from Birmingham-Southern, Centenary, Morehouse, Southwestern and Washington and Lee

6:00

Fill out questionnaires for "New Tech Centers" Session

6:30

Dinner: McCombs Student Center Ballrooms (Marsha and Lynda)

8:30

Adjourn, vans to hotel

Saturday, February 17

7:15, 7: 45, 8:15

Vans depart hotel for campus

7:30 - 8:30

Continental Breakfast: McCombs Center Ballrooms (Marsha and Lynda)

8:30 - 9:30

Panel: McCombs Center Ballrooms (Marsha and Lynda)
"Talking toward Techno-Pedagogy: A Collaboration across Colleges and Constituencies"

Susan Fliss, Reference Librarian/LITS Training Coordinator at Mount Holyoke College
Julie Boissell, Reference Librarian at Mount Holyoke College
Kathy Binder, Mount Holyoke College
Kyra Comroe, student, Mt. Holyoke College (via phone)
Moderator - Alison Cook-Sather, Asst. Prof. and Director of the Education Program of Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges

9:45 - 10:45

"National Tech Centers Initiative" Panel and Discussion: McCombs Center Ballrooms (Marsha and Lynda)

Suzanne Bonefas, ACS
Ken Abernethy, Furman University
Members of the Southwestern "Tech Center Committee": Lynne Brody, Bob Paver, Glenda Carl, Hal Haskell

10:45

Break: Refreshments in Library Staff Lounge, SLC 251

11:00 - 12:15

Task Force Work Session I: ACS Tech Center/Smith Library Center
Task Forces break into individual groups for discussion and planning activities

Assessment: SLC 202
Collaboration: SLC 223
Curriculum: Prothro Room
Guidelines: SLC 201
Training: SLC 204

12:15

Break: to lunch at McCombs Ballrooms (Marsha and Lynda)

12:30 - 2:00

Lunch with Keynote speech by Susan L. Perry, College Librarian & Director of Library, Information and Technology Services, Mount Holyoke College, Liberal Education, Academic Community and Technology: "A Mind Lively and at Ease" [Introduced by Tom Watson, University Librarian, University of the South]: McCombs Center Ballrooms (Marsha and Lynda)

2:00

Break: Back to SLC and Task Force Rooms

2:15 - 3:30

Task Force Work Session II: ACS Tech Center
resume work started in Session I

3:30

Break: Refreshments in Library Staff Lounge, SLC 251

3:45 - 4:30

Task Force Reports: Prothro Room

4:30

Break

4:45 - 6:00

Plenary Session: Prothro Room
Summary of significant conclusions of symposium, planning for future projects, etc.
Moderated by Coordinating Committee Members Susan Hagen (Associate Dean of the College, Birmingham-Southern), Bob Johnson (Dean of Information Services and Chief Information Officer, Rhodes), Kathy Koberstein (Associate Professor of Romance Languages, Washington and Lee) and Jim Rettig (University Librarian, Richmond)

Vans for hotel

7:00

Dinner, Walburg Mercantile (Walburg, TX)

Sunday, February 18

4am-noon

Vans depart for the airport

7:30am

Coordinating Committee Work Session: Courtyard Marriot Restaurant

8:30-12

Mellon meeting: Caldwell-Carvey Foyer of the Fine Arts Building