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29 January 2020

Small Grants: November 2019 awards and news for next grant cycle

In the last cycle for November 2019, the Small Grant Review committee received and review 7 applications, all of which were accepted. The following applications were accepted with either full or partial funding: Title Applicant …

8 November 2019

Register for AMICAL 2020

Registration is now open for AMICAL 2020. The deadline is just over a week from now, November 17, so make sure to register in time. Some important guidelines: If you have applied for a pre-conference workshop, wait for a response from the…

1 November 2019

Applications for AMICAL 2020’s pre-conference workshops now open

AMICAL 2020 will host two 1-day pre-conference workshops, each tailored for AMICAL members by the invited facilitators. The pre-conference workshops will run in parallel on Wednesday 15 January: Strategic approaches to the development of digital literacies …

28 October 2019

Schedule and financial support program for AMICAL 2020

We are excited to announce the program for AMICAL 2020, the consortium’s 17th annual meeting and conference, which will take place 15–18 January the American University of Kuwait (AUK). We have also updated the conference website to include information about…

3 September 2019

AMICAL 2020: Call for proposals (Round 2)

The Program Committee is pleased to announce that Round 2 of the Call for Proposals is now open! Starting today, and until 15 September, we will be accepting final session proposals in all formats. You can submit directly in Round 2, even if you hadn’t submitted a…

3 September 2019

Small Grants: September 2019 update

In this cycle, we received 16 applications, a record number. The Small Grant Review committee has reviewed all of them and responded last week as follows: Accepted: 7 Requested revision: 5 Declined: 4 The following applications were accepted with either…

Alex Armstrong & Jeff Gima · 11 August 2019

Participate in the election for the 2019–2021 Coordinating Committee

The election is underway for the officers of the next Coordinating Committee. Their term will start on 1 October 2019 and conclude on 30 September 2021. The current Vice-Chair – Evi Tramantza (American College of Thessaloniki) – will be taking over as Chair. The three…

29 July 2019

AMICAL 2020: Call for proposals (Round 1)

The deadline for Round 1 of the call for proposals is just around the corner: 11 August. <p>We’ve already sent out a more detailed message about the call, but I wanted to briefly remind you of this deadline, as it’s easy to miss such…

8 July 2019

Propose a conference session for AMICAL 2020

AMICAL members: The call of proposals for AMICAL 2020 is now open! Our annual conference will take place 15–18 January at the American University of Kuwait (AUK). Over a hundred librarians, faculty members, technologists, administrators and other colleagues across…

Nikolina Ivanova-Bell, Fatme Charafeddine, Evi Tramantza · 25 June 2019

Call for nominations for AMICAL’s Coordinating Committee (2019–2021) now open

Colorful hands raised up.

We are delighted to announce that we’re looking for dynamic and enthusiastic individuals from across AMICAL to join the Coordinating Committee. The first step is to nominate candidates who wish to advance the consortium’s mission through their work in the committee. We will…