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Learning from Each Other: Assessment and Collaborative Learning
AMICAL members: come join us at the AMICAL 2008 Conference from 25-28 May at the American University in Bulgaria! How can we work together, across our own campuses and across AMICAL, to make assessment of libraries and IT services meaningful for the improvement of student learning? How can we use collaborative technologies both to enable assessment and to enrich the learning experience for our students? Librarians, technologists, faculty, institutional research coordinators, and chief academic officers will be joining the discussions. For more information, see the conference web site.

On October 5-6, 2007, a small group of provosts and presidents from AMICAL institutions will join several of their US-based counterparts from similar institutions to brainstorm together about how to maximize AMICAL members' collaboration, drawing upon the experience of some US institutions that have similarly taken part in consortia. The meeting has been organized by Susan Perry and Celeste Schenck and will take place at the American University of Paris.

The goals of the meeting are:

• to learn more about each other's institutions and needs
• to brainstorm together about the ways in which collaboration might strengthen our institutions—library and IT services, curricular resources, faculty and student exchanges, development offices, admissions offices, accreditation issues, etc.
• to think collectively about how AMICAL can sustain its operations and growth, through financial or other contributions
• to identify collaborative projects of value to provosts, and to secure their commitment to pursuing them as a consortium

The meeting is being made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

AMICAL's fourth annual meeting will be hosted by the Mohammed VI Library at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, May 27-30, 2007. The focus of the conference will be “Integrating library and IT services for better learning.” For more information, see the AMICAL 4 conference website.