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As announced at the AMICAL 2017 Members Council, this summer we’re electing officers for AMICAL’s Coordinating Committee. What exactly is the Coordinating Committee? The role of the Coordinating Committee is to provide financial and operational oversight, approving policies and directions…

Responses were recently sent out for the latest group of applications for AMICAL’s Small Grant Program. Of the 7 applications received, the Grant Review Committee accepted the following 5: Name Job title AMICAL institution Small Grant title Nikolina Ivanova-Bell Library…

AMICAL members, invited speakers and other guests are converging in Thessaloniki this week for AMICAL 2017, our consortium’s annual Conference. We’ve been planning this event for months, and we’re proud of the program we’ve put together. But what if you…

The Digital Humanities Institute – Beirut (DHI-B) 2017 is starting tomorrow. There is a large cohort of AMICAL members participating in this event, but if you aren’t able to attend in person, you can still watch the two keynotes live….

Centering on learning: Partnerships and professional development among librarians, faculty and technologists Student learning, and students’ critical engagement with their objects of study and research, are a core part of AMICAL member institutions’ educational missions. This year the AMICAL Conference…

You know that you could participate in parts of AMICAL 2017 online, but you want to get more involved than that: you want to participate in person and be one of the people that are making the Conference happen. If…

AMICAL members, the call for proposals for AMICAL 2017 is finally open! Some of you have already been asking about it, including some AMICAL members who’ve never proposed a program session before. We seem to have tapped into something powerful…

AMICAL’s Grant Review Committee vetted proposals for our Mellon Foundation-funded Consortial Training & Workshop Grants program last month, and three great workshops have been approved for sponsorship for this year, 2016-2017. If you’re a faculty member, technologist or librarian at…

Here’s one of the things I like most of all to see AMICAL supporting: professional development events that are created on members’ own initiative and for the benefit of the entire consortium. The AMICAL Conference is largely built out of…

Latest funded activities Responses were sent out Monday to the latest group of applications for AMICAL’s Small Grant Program. Of the three applications received, we accepted the following two: Actively Engaged by Design: Visual Literacy for University Faculty and Academic…