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Program

Sixth AMICAL Conference Program

“The Learner’s Perspective – Adapting Information Services forToday’s Students”

May 21- 24, 2009, Yerevan Armenia

Day 1st -- Thursday, May 21
08:30	Bus from hotel to AUA
9:00 - 10:00	Registration at AUA Alex and Marie Manoogian Hall
10:00 - 10:15	Welcome and Opening
10:15 - 11:30	Keynote Speaker: Nancy Fried Foster
10:15 - 11:30	Using ethnographic methods to understand today's undergrads: methods and findings
11:30 - 12:00	Coffee break, Photo slide show
12:00 - 1:00	Panel presentation and discussion: Information Literacy: local approaches to information literacy, adaptation to study/research habits of today’s students.
	Moderator: Daphne Flanagan
	Panelists: Rebecca Carter, AUA Jayme Spencer, AUC Kathy Ray, AUS, Elisabetta Morani, John Cabot University Martha Speirs, AUN
	Questions and Answers to the panelists
1:00 - 2:00	Lunch Buffet (location: AUA Cafeteria)
2:00 - 3:00	Information Literacy Panel (continuation)
3:00 – 3:45	Coffee break, Tour of Paramaz Avedisian Building
3:45 – 5:00	General session: Reports on AMICAL activities: Jeff Gima, AMICAL Administrator Casey Grimmer, AUC Jayme Spencer, AUC Sania Battalova, AUCA Nigel Butterwick, FC
5:00 – 5:45	Polycom presentation by Alain Civel
5:45 – 6:30	AMICAL Member Council
7:00 - 10:00	Dinner at Arvasar restaurant

Day 2nd - Friday, May 22
8:30	Bus from hotel to AUA
9:00 - 10:30	General session: James Simon: A day in the life of today’s student and professor using web tools to access and use information resources. Nancy Foster: A day in the life of a College Student.
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 1:30	Visit to Matenadaran (Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts) with a tour.
1:30 - 2:30	Working lunch and discussions of Professional Development (location: AUA Cafeteria)
2:30 - 3:30	Deans’ panel presentations on Characterizing our students
	Moderator: Susan Perry
	Panelists: Lucig Danielian, AUA Celeste Schenck, AUP John Mosbo, AUS, Liviu Matei, CEU Peter Boyd, AUK Ouaouicha Driss, AUI
	Questions and Answers
3:30 – 4:00	Coffee break
4:00 - 4:30	Deans’ panel presentations (continuation)
4:30 – 5:00	Hold a raffle drawing
5:00 - 7:30	Visit to Armenian Cognac Factory
7:30 -10:00	Dinner at “Ararat” hotel with the Armenian Classical Music

Day 3rd - Saturday, May 23
8:30	Bus from hotel to AUA
9:00 -10:00	General session: James Simon: Web portal to support students’ information resource needs -- a big picture view
10:00 -10:40	General session: Billiana Alexandrova, GMU: Open access – ten years after. How can we benefit it in the times of financial crises?
10:40 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 11:45	General session: Sam Sayer: OCLC consortial services
11:45 - 12:30	Concurrent meetings: Group session 1 Instruction & Information Literacy, Room # 214W - RESPOND - priorities and planning for OCLC services at AMICAL institutions, Room # 315E
12:30 -1:30	Lunch Buffet (location: AUA Cafeteria)
1:30 - 2:15	Concurrent meetings: Group session 2 - Room #113W E-resources/Databases - strategies and collection priorities for consortial negotiations with vendors, Room # 214W -Faculty and curricular collaboration; Room #315E -IT issues - common problems, potential areas of collaboration.
2:15 - 3:00	Wrap up with 5 min reports from each group, and closing
3:00 – 3:15	Photo taking in front of AUA building
3:20 - 7:30	Trip to Garni temple and “Monastery in Cave” Geghard monastery complex
7:30 - 10:00	Dinner with AAICU members at Bellagio restaurant

Day 4th Sunday, May 24, 2009 Post- conference workshop and a session with AAICU
9:00	Bus from hotel to AUA
9:30	Post-conference workshop: Computer Lab 9D Matt Goldner, OCLC: Next-generation catalogs and discovery layers: user-centered interfaces… for better searching -- and better finding.
9:30
11:00 - 12:00	Coffee break
12:00 - 1:00	Post-conference workshop (continuation), Computer Lab 9D
1:00 - 2:00	Lunch (location: AUA Cafeteria)
2:00 - 4:00	Joint AMICAL – AAICU meeting, Alex and Marie Manoogian Hall
4:00	Coffee break

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