AMICAL News

AMICAL 2009 Conference dates set

September 17, 2008 by jgima

AMICAL's sixth annual meeting and conference will take place at the American University of Armenia, in the capital city of Yerevan. The conference program will offer speakers, workshops, discussions and other forms of professional exchange around the theme of "Today's Students." The main days of the conference will be Thursday-Saturday 21-23 May 2009; an optional half-day post-conference workshop is tentatively planned for 24 May.

AMICAL librarian wins IFLA/OCLC Fellowship

September 1, 2008 by jgima

Ani Minasyan, Circulation/Reference Librarian at the American University of Armenia, is among the six winners of the 2009 Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship. Read the news release here.

AMICAL 2008 Conference

March 13, 2008 by jgima

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.

Meeting of Chief Academic Officers on collaboration through AMICAL

September 26, 2007 by jgima

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.

Fourth AMICAL Meeting (May 2007, Morocco)

May 16, 2007 by dhorn

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.