AMICAL News

AUA helps get Yerevan named World Book Capital 2012

July 27, 2010 by jgima

Thanks in part to support from the American University of Armenia and AUA Library Director, Bella Avakian, Yerevan was recently named World Book Capital 2012 by UNESCO. In her letter on behalf of AUA supporting Yerevan's bid, Bella notes that "2012...marks the 500th anniversary of first Armenian printed work by the first Armenian publisher, Hakob Meghapart." According to UNESCO, the award is an "acknowledgement of the best programme dedicated to books and reading."

Real-time information sharing during the AMICAL Conference

June 9, 2010 by jgima

AMICAL2010 Conference attendees, and others interested, can share and follow links and comments related to conference sessions via Delicious.com (tag: amical2010) and Twitter (hash-tag: #amical2010). For Google Wave users, a wave has also been started.

Information on E-resources available through AMICAL

June 4, 2010 by jgima

For AMICAL members:

A new E-resources section of AMICALwiki has been created to organize and share information about each of the database offers available through AMICAL membership. You can find there general product information, information about current trials, reviews of each e-resource, and pricing available to AMICAL members. Not all resources have information posted on this site yet, and prices for some are still being negotiated, but information will be added as it becomes available.

AMICALwiki requires login - contact AMICAL if you need an account set up.

AMICAL Conference - Workshops

May 27, 2010 by jgima

The 2010 AMICAL Conference, Digital Assets & the Cloud: Building Digital Collections through Library, IT & Faculty Collaboration, is being hosted by Central European University in Budapest, 9-12 June. The following workshops are still open to AMICAL members for enrollment:

Technical services workflow & logistical issues for today's changing library collections
Matt Goldner (Product and Technology Advocate, OCLC)
Susan L. Perry (Senior Advisor for Liberal Arts Colleges, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation)
An Introduction to Repositories
Thorny Staples (Director, Community Strategy and Alliances and Fedora Project, DuraSpace)
Overview of ethnographic methods and their application to libraries
Dr. Nancy Fried Foster (Director of Anthropological Research, River Campus Libraries at University of Rochester)
Overcoming Obstacles in your Electronic Theses and Dissertations Project
Rebecca Sandlin (Deputy CIO, Bowdoin College)
Ethan Benatan (Director, Computer User Services, Reed College)

A workshop registration form has been sent to all registered attendees from AMICAL institutions. See the conference web site for the full conference program.

For full descriptions of the workshops, see below:

PRECONFERENCE
WEDNESDAY 9 JUNE

Spring 2010 E-resource trials

May 11, 2010 by jgima

For interested AMICAL members, trial access has been set up for the following e-resources (links go to entry/search pages):

Trial periods run from end of April through June, depending on the database.