{"id":232,"date":"2011-02-22T14:39:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T19:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watkinson.wp.trincoll.edu\/?p=232"},"modified":"2011-02-22T14:39:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T19:39:27","slug":"sass-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2011\/02\/22\/sass-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"SASS schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Databases and bibliographies are not, frankly, very sexy (at least not to most of us).\u00a0 As an antidote, I\u2019ve come up with a new instructional model, called Short Attention-Span Seminars (or SASS).\u00a0 The idea is simple.\u00a0 Each weekly, 15-minute session (held Wednesdays at 10:00am in the Watkinson)\u00a0 is focused on one tool (a database, bibliography, etc.) that I deem essential for humanities research.\u00a0 This can range from the <em>Dictionary of Literary Biography<\/em> (DLB) to <em>Eighteenth Century Collections Online<\/em> (ECCO).\u00a0 I also like to show at least one rare book from the collection, related in some way to the source of the day.\u00a0 As an incentive, I am offering a coupon for a free coffee or tea at Peter B\u2019s (the caf\u00e9 in the library) to anyone who shows up.<\/p>\n<p>My goal for this series is threefold:\u00a0 first, to introduce students, faculty, and staff to resources they may not know about or under-appreciate; second, to show off a bit of the rare collection which is normally locked away from casual visitors; and third, to offer an informal, regular venue that could serve as a place to announce upcoming Watkinson events to interested members of the Trinity community.<\/p>\n<p>So here is an example of how a the seminar might go:\u00a0 You show up at the Watkinson at 10:00am sharp (because if you are late, you\u2019ve missed it!), and I start talking about a resource\u2014say, <em>Early American Imprints, Series I<\/em> (digitized copies of every book printed in the U.S. from 1639 to 1800).\u00a0 I talk about how to use the source, its scope and content, and show (for instance) the Watkinson\u2019s copy of the first edition of the <em>Federalist<\/em>, which is also in the online version, accessible from your dorm or home.\u00a0 At 10:15 I\u2019m done talking, and you can either ask questions or be on your way to get your free beverage, wiser and refreshed!\u00a0 What\u2019s not to like?\u00a0 For a schedule of the seminars, email me at <a href=\"mailto:richard.ring@trincoll.edu\">richard.ring@trincoll.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Ring<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spring Term Schedule:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, January 26, 10:00am<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, February 2, 10:00am<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, February 9, 10:00am<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, February 16, 10:00am<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, February 23, 10:00am<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, March 2, 10:00am<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, March 9, 10:00am<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, March 16, 10:00am<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, March 30, 10:00am<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, April 6, 10:00am<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, April 13, 10:00am<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, April 20, 10:00am<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, April 27, 10:00am<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Databases and bibliographies are not, frankly, very sexy (at least not to most of us).\u00a0 As an antidote, I\u2019ve come up with a new instructional model, called Short Attention-Span Seminars (or SASS).\u00a0 The idea is simple.\u00a0 Each weekly, 15-minute session (held Wednesdays at 10:00am in the Watkinson)\u00a0 is focused on one tool (a database, bibliography, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}