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Jeff Gima & Elisabetta Morani · 10 November 2015

Workshop on “Evidence-based planning & decision-making in academic libraries”

Ithaka S+R researchers Nancy Fried Foster and Roger Schonfeld.

AMICAL is planning to organise several upcoming workshops for our members. The first of these will be a workshop delivered by Roger Schonfeld and Nancy Fried Foster of Ithaka S+R, a non-profit research service that helps the academic community navigate economic and…

Jeff Gima · 21 October 2015

Bringing focus & resources to AMICAL’s 2015-2018 programs

From Fall 2014 through Spring 2015, in consultation with the Mellon Foundation and with AMICAL’s Coordinating Committee, I worked with Celeste Schenck (President, American University of Paris) to develop an $800,000 grant proposal to support AMICAL’s operations and…

Jeff Gima · 12 October 2015

AMICAL 2016 at The American University of Rome

Technologists, librarians and faculty at AMICAL institutions: this is your conference. This is where you can work together with peers from other international American universities on the use of information and technology in teaching. This is where your institution’s IT…

Jeff Gima · 17 August 2015

Governance documents & Coordinating Committee elections

I have two important bits of news to share on AMICAL governance. New Operational Guidelines First, AMICAL’s voting members have just approved a substantially revised version of our Operational Guidelines. The revised Operational Guidelines aim to streamline our…

Jeff Gima · 28 July 2015

New website

I have an update to share with you regarding AMICAL’s web site — but I know it’s the middle of summer, and you’re reading this from your beach chair with eyes half-closed, so I’ll keep it short. Over the last few years, the internet termites have been slowly eating…

Nancy Fried Foster · 22 July 2015

Revisiting the AMICAL Conference

Nancy Fried Foster talking with Margaret Kneller.

This was the fifth time I had attended the AMICAL Conference in the last seven years and it was every bit as enjoyable as all the others. I had always hoped to visit the American University in Bulgaria and was glad I had the chance to see the library and campus—a lovely…

Ivana Stevanovic · 7 July 2015

CATs: An assessment tool among others

This AMICAL 2015 workshop was on what CATs (Classroom Assessment Techniques) are and what they assess. Five exercises helped participants in getting better insight about how a particular CAT is used in the classroom. Examples and experiences were aimed at faculty,…

Lori Townsend · 22 June 2015

Connecting the dots: Curiosity. Motivation. Affect.

I had such a lovely time at the 2015 conference — THANK YOU all for inviting me and taking such awesome care of me. AMICAL really knows how to put on a conference (and how to party)! And Bulgaria is a gorgeous place to do so. I came away with so many nice connections,…

Dimitris Tzouris · 10 June 2015

How attendees saw and shared AMICAL 2015

AMICAL conferences are always a great opportunity to learn new things, connect with old colleagues and meet new ones. And they are always fun! This year we managed to share more of that special AMICAL juice and spill it all over social media! Here’s a collection of…

Anne-Marie Deitering · 9 June 2015

Thoughts: A reflection on AMICAL 2015

I am back in Oregon now and my email inbox is under control after a week in Bulgaria at the AMICAL conference. When Dimitris asked if I would write a little piece for this blog about the experience I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to say thank you to AMICAL, its…