Program

Day 1: Wednesday, 4^th April

9:00 AM

Registration opens

AMICAL Coordinating Committee meeting
[Closed meeting]
Facilitator: Jeff Gima, AMICAL, American University of Paris
Location: LIB 017

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Workshop: The Nuts & Bolts of Getting Started with Institutional Repository Programs
Instructor: Abby Clobridge, Clobridge Consulting
Location: LIB 011
AUS contact: Jennifer Acorn
Duration: Full day (session 1/3)

Workshop: Methodologies for Developing and Improving Information Literacy Assessment Techniques
Instructor: Meggan Houlihan, American University in Cairo
Location: SBM 001
AUS contact: Jennifer Alanna Ross
Duration: 2 hours

12:00 – 13:00 PM

Lunch
Location: Main Building, Faculty Dining Hall

13:00 – 15:00 PM

Workshop: The Nuts & Bolts of Getting Started with Institutional Repository Programs (continued)
Instructor: Abby Clobridge, Clobridge Consulting
Location: LIB 011
Duration: Full day (session 2/3)

Workshop: Getting started with usability testing
Instructor: Rice Majors, University of Colorado Boulder
Location: IC1 (Library)
AUS contact: Christine Furno
Duration: 2 hours

15:00 – 15:30 PM

Coffee break (30 minutes)

15:30 – 17:00 PM

Workshop: The Nuts & Bolts of Getting Started with Institutional Repository Programs (continued)
Instructor: Abby Clobridge, Clobridge Consulting
Location: LIB 011
Duration: Full day (session 3/3)

17:00 – 21:30 PM

End of program (4 April)
Desert Safari & Dinner

Day 2: Thursday, 5^th April

8 :00 AM

Depart hotel

9:00 – 9:30 AM

Opening of Conference
Speakers: Dr. Thomas Hochstettler, Provost, American University of Sharjah and Jeff Gima, Director, AMICAL.
Location: SBM 002

9:30 – 10:30 AM

Keynote: Value, Engagement, and Innovation: Principles to Guide and Sustain the Academic Library
Presenter: Lisa Hinchliffe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Moderator: Daphne Flanagan, AUS
Location: SBM 002

10:30 – 11:00 AM

Coffee break (30 minutes) SPONSORED BY ELSEVIER

11:00 – 11:45 AM

Discussion group: Follow-up on Lisa Hinchliffe's "Value, Engagement, and Innovation" presentation
Facilitator: Lisa Hinchliffe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Moderator: Daphne Flanagan
Location: SBM 002

Discussion group: Resource Sharing
Facilitator: Hoda El Ridi, American University in Cairo
Location: SBM 2060

Discussion group: Learning Management Systems
Facilitator: Rosa Fusco, American University of Rome
Location: SBM 2083 & SBM 2101

11:45 AM – 12:30 PM

Lightning talks
Location: SBM 002
1. LAU Libraries Value Calculation -- ROI (Cendrella Habre, Lebanese American University)
2. “ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education” revisited (Fatmeh Charafeddine, American University of Beirut)
3. Evaluating Information Literacy in conjunction to the overall services usage (Stella Asderi and Liza Vachtsevanou, American College of Thessaloniki)
Moderator: Bella Avakian, AUA

Discussion group: Innovative Learning Technologies
Facilitator: Ekaterina Kombarova, American University of Central Asia
Location: SBM 2060

12:30 - 13:30 PM

Lunch
Location: Main Building, Faculty Dining Hall

13:30 – 15:00 PM

Presentations: Libraries and learning spaces
Location: SBM 002
1. How to find out more about library use – a choice of research methods (Michael Stöpel, American University of Paris)
2. The Library Space – Fostering Active Learning (Nikolina Ivanova-Bell and Sophia Katsarska, American University in Bulgaria)
3. On digital narratives: a case study on the collaborative partnership between faculty, students, educational technologists and library staff (Aziza Ellozy, Hoda Mostafa (in absentia) and Sandy Barsoum (in absentia), American University in Cairo)
Moderator: Sophia Katsarska, AUBG

Panel: Faculty and academic staff use of the Course Management System (CMS), ILearn at the American University of Sharjah
Presenters: David Prescott, Cindy Gunn, Walid Alieldin, Kathleen Botter, Shireen Baghestani, Hamed Saadat and Elena Szymanska, American University of Sharjah
Moderator: Nigel Butterwick, Franklin College
Location: SBM 001

15:00 – 15:30 PM

Coffee break  (30 minutes) SPONSORED BY SPRINGER

15:30 – 16:15 PM

Discussion: Learning spaces
Facilitator: Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative
Location: SBM 002

Presentation: Discovery tools and research analytics solutions
Presenter: Guillaume Rivalle, PhD, Manager – Strategic Business Development, Thomson Reuters
Location: SBM 001

16:15 – 17:15 PM

Photo of AMICAL members & affiliates followed by library/campus tour
Location: In front of library

17:15 PM

End of program (5 April)

Day 3: Friday, 6^th April

8 :00 AM

Depart hotel

9:00 – 10:00 AM

Keynote: Seeking Evidence of Impact: Towards Evidence-based Practice
Presenter: Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative
Location: SBM 002

10:00 – 10:30 AM

Coffee break (30 minutes)

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Workshop: Digital Archives and Libraries Workshop
Instructor: Carolyn Runyon, American University in Cairo
Location: LIB 011
Duration: 1.5 hours

Workshop: Move your memory to the cloud: Information management and sharing using Web 2.0 tools
Instructor: Dimitris Tzouris, American College of Thessaloniki
Location: IC1 (Library)
Duration: 1.5 hours

Discussion group: Evaluating the use of new teaching technologies
Facilitators:
Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative
Aziza Ellozy, American University of Cairo
Location: SBM 2050

12:00 – 13:00 PM

Lunch: SPONSORED BY EBSCO
Location: Main Building, Faculty Dining Hall

13:00 – 13:30 PM

Lightning talks
Location: SBM 002
1. The AMICAL Digital Library - a shared platform for digital collection building (Jeff Gima, AMICAL/American University of Paris)
2. AMICALconnect - a social networking platform for AMICAL members (Dimitris Tzouris, American College of Thessaloniki, and Jeff Gima, AMICAL/American University of Paris)Education” revisited (Fatmeh Charafeddine, American University of Beirut)
3. Evaluating Information Literacy in conjunction to the overall services usage (Stella Asderi and Liza Vachtsevanou, American College of Thessaloniki)
Moderator: Bella Avakian, AUA

13:30 – 14:00 PM

Presentation: ELIME Update: What We’ve Accomplished & Future Plans (20 min)
Presenter: Amanda Click, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Location: SBM 001

Technology Showcase:
1. DSPACE installation at AUS, Presenter: Thomas Hodge, American University of Sharjah
2. Teaching Beyond Classroom Walls at AUC, Presenter: Ahmad Zorkani, American University in Cairo
3. WorldCat Local at John Cabot University, Presenter: Elisabetta Morani, John Cabot Univeristy
4. AMICALconnect – a social networking platform for AMICAL members (Dimitris Tzouris, American College of Thessaloniki)
Moderator: Livia Piotto, JCU
Location: SBM 002

14:00 – 14:30 PM

Discussion group: OCLC & professional development
Facilitator: Arthur Smith, OCLC
Location: SBM 2060

Discussion group: Learning Spaces
Facilitator: Susan Perry
Location: SBM 2050

14:30 – 15:00 PM

Coffee break (30 minutes)

15:00 – 16:10 PM

Presentations: Evaluating discovery services
Location: SBM 002
1. Discovery Tool Evaluation: A Three-Pronged Approach (Kathleen Botter, Thomas Hodge, and Mary Ann Nash, American University of Sharjah) (30 min)
2. You never know until you ask: User experience of Library OneSearch (Summon) one year after implementation (Josiah Drewry, American University in Cairo) (20 min)
3. You Only Think You’re Like Google: Comparative User Experience Testing of Discovery Platforms (Rice Majors, University of Colorado Boulder) (20 min)

Discussion group: Information Literacy
Facilitator: Meggan Houlihan, American University in Cairo
Location: SBM 2060

Discussion group: Institutional Repositories & Archives
Facilitator: Abby Clobridge, Clobridge Consulting
Location: SBM 2083

16:10 PM

End of program (6 April)

Day 4: Saturday, 7^th April

8 :00 AM

Depart hotel

9:00 – 9:30 AM

Presentation: Lessons learned & benefits of cooperating with content provider in today’s information environment
Presenters: Michael Stöpel and Sally Murray, American University of Paris; Jackie LaPlaca Ricords, Credo Reference
Location: SBM 001

Presentation: AMICAL projects on academic videoconferencing
Presenter: Ahmad Zorkani, American University in Cairo; Jeff Gima, AMICAL / American University of Paris
Location: SBM 002

9:30 – 11:00 AM

Workshop: Institutional Effectiveness: Using Outcomes to Measure Performance
Instructor: Dr. Cindy Dutschke, American University of Sharjah
Location: SBM 001
Duration: 1.5 hours

Workshop: Developing the Teacher Librarian
Instructor: Amanda Click, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Location: LIB 011
Duration: 1.5 hours

Discussion group: Collection Development Issues (PDA, ebooks, etc.)
Facilitator: Cendrella Habre, Lebanese American University
Location: SBM 2050

Discussion group: Discovery Services
Facilitator: Josiah Drewry, American University in Cairo
Location: SBM 2060

11:00 – 11:30 AM

Coffee break (30 minutes)

11:30 AM – 12:15 PM

Presentation + discussion: Approaching Library IT Strategically
Presenter: Rice Majors, University of Colorado Boulder
Location: SBM 001

12:15 – 12:45 PM

Closing presentation
Presenter: Susan Perry
Location: SBM 001

12:45 – 13:45 PM

Lunch
Location: Main Building, Faculty Dining Hall

13:45 – 14:45 PM

AMICAL Members Council meeting
[AMICAL Representatives]
Facilitator: Jeff Gima, AMICAL
Location: SBM 001

14:45 PM

End of program (7 April)

15:00 PM

Bus tour of Sharjah