To a lunchtime session on 'motivating students'. Bit heavy on the research and light on 'solutions'. Indeed, by the time we'd been encouraged to spend fifteen minutes sharing our own experience I think we were all ready to shoot ourselves.

But I came away with a couple of ideas:
chocolate apparently is a good motivator (despite what the head of library said earlier in the week about trying to wean subject librarians from the idea that food and drink solve most problems)
the electronic voting systems (again!) came warmly recommended
extra-curricular stuff for those who are more motivated - hmmm, not sure that will work in the Library, but it's a thought
Good to hear it wasn't just the library that turns students off though. All the academics there could tale horror stories.