The Summer Salon series project group met on Monday and agreed to change the timeframes for the pilot for this joint initiative of the Library Committee and the Library.

It was decided:
• The first Salon will be hosted in February and not on Friday 19th January
It was agree to stretch the series out over the first semester hosting one salon event each month rather than running with the originally conceived summer series.
• Friday may not be the best day to host the Salon.
It was agreed to survey staff to discover preferred times and days of the week in order to maximise the likelihood of getting good attendance

We think that taking the time to engage with staff and waiting until more people are back on campus will lead to a better outcome for the pilot.

We’ll continue the work of identifying suitably provocative topics for discussion and thought leaders to introduce them. If you’ve got suggestions please send them to a member of the project group – Lyndsay Ainsworth, Alison McIntyre, Rā Steer, Anton Angelo, Ray Kirk and Mike Grimshaw