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13 April 2021

Elisabetta Morani Library Staff Development Fund — Launch of grant program

To honor the memory of Elisabetta Morani, former John Cabot University Head Librarian who died suddenly in November of last year, Karen M. Bohrer and Susan L. Perry have founded a program in Elisabetta’s name to support library staff development across the AMICAL…

1 March 2021

Year in Review (Aug 2019 – Jul 2020) & Recent Highlights (through Jan 2021)

AMICAL members, the primary audience for this report, can access a slightly more detailed, members-only version of this document. Through collaboration, the AMICAL Consortium raises the quality of libraries, technology and learning across the 28 international liberal arts…

18 February 2021

Small Grants: recent awards (2020–2021) and news for next grant cycle

The Small Grant Review committee received and reviewed 11 applications in the most recent cycles (September 2020, November 2020 and January 2021). The following 8 applications were accepted with either full or partial funding: Title Applicant …

3 December 2020

Elisabetta Morani (1958–2020): Bringing heart and wisdom to AMICAL’s community

The AMICAL Consortium, including its staff and the many colleagues who form the network of peers spanning our 28 member institutions, mourn the loss of our colleague Elisabetta Morani, who passed away last Friday, 27 November. Elisabetta was Head Librarian at John Cabot…

Jeff Gima · 30 October 2020

Helping students get news outside of social media: AMICAL facilitates access to DailyChatter’s independent, non-partisan news digest

The current period is a critical one for helping our students to avoid misinformation – and disinformation – but doing so is made more difficult by young people’s reliance on social media for news. AMICAL has partnered with DailyChatter to help meet this challenge,…

25 August 2020

Support for the Digital Liberal Arts at AMICAL institutions

The call for applications to AMICAL’s Digital Liberal Arts Cohort program is now open! Do you have a faculty-staff team working on a digital liberal arts project or initiative? This program gives your team access to AMICAL’s Digital Liberal Arts Cohort, a…

25 June 2020

Professional development opportunity in the digital liberal arts

We’re excited to announce the newest iteration of AMICAL’s Digital Liberal Arts Cohort program! This program is the cornerstone of our efforts to raise the faculty and staff capacities of member institutions for localized, digital approaches to liberal arts…

19 June 2020

Small Grants: May 2020 awards and news for next grant cycle

The Small Grant Review committee received and reviewed 6 applications for the May 2020 cycle. The following 4 applications were accepted with either full or partial funding: Title Applicant Institution Category …

Jeff Gima · 8 April 2020

AMICAL-ACRL book on “Library Partnerships in International Liberal Arts Education” launched!

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I’m excited to share the news that ACRL has officially launched a book that AMICAL has been collaborating with them to develop over the past few years: Library Partnerships in International Liberal Arts Education: Building Relationships Across Cultural and…

26 March 2020

AMICAL forums on “Continuity during COVID-19”

This illustration of the ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses.

Update: We now have a COVID-19 page with up-to-date information on initiatives and resources in support of instructional and library continuity during this time. At the “Continuity of instructional and library activities during COVID-19” member forum that AMICAL organized…