Please join us live at 1PM EST on February 24, 2022 for the TLGS (Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students) Webinar Series.
Topic: "Big Ideas, Individual Effort: Graduate Student Writing Retreats as Accelerator for Dissertation Completion"
While many universities support "dissertation boot camps," or a workshop series on dissertation competition, the Dissertation Writers Retreat at the University of Memphis is intended to be a true writer's retreat, in the vein of similar programs that have been held at some universities, but normally aimed at faculty. This program, led by Graduate School, the Center for Writing and Communication, and the University Libraries, offers PhD students in the final semester both space and programming over multiple days in the library. We will discuss the origins, implementation, and challenges of starting such a retreat, and also how the program pivoted after March 2020 to expand virtual offerings and broaden its scope beyond late-stage dissertation students.
Presented by Michael W. Harris, a librarian, archivist, and musicologist who is an assistant professor, Outreach and Statewide Services librarian at Utah State University Eastern. His articles, reviews, and essays have appeared in Cinema Journal, Asian Music, and Library & Information History. He has also presented papers at Music and the Moving Image, the annual meeting of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies and Tennessee Library Association, and at numerous regional conferences around the United States.
Session Host: Corinne Bishop, University of Central Florida
Chat host: Sheila Devaney, University of Georgia
Series Organizer: Wendy Doucette, East Tennessee State University
Zoom Link: https://etsu.zoom.us/j/99102285361 (no registration required)
This presentation will be recorded and made available on the TLGS YouTube page after processing (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHqdLR-wi4dLLvNZFQt4RhQ).
TLGS, the only national conference on graduate librarianship, will take place virtually on March 16-17, 2022. For more information, please see the official conference repository at https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/gradlibconf/