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31 May 2011

Elisabetta Morani (JCU) and Berj Gatrjian (AUA) elected to AMICAL Coordinating Committee

Elisabetta Morani (Head Librarian at John Cabot University) and Berj Gatrjian (Director, Information Technologies and Communication Services at American University of Armenia) have been elected Chair and Vice-Chair, respectively, of AMICAL’s Coordinating Committee for…

31 May 2011

Upcoming webinars on digital collection platforms CONTENTdm and LUNA

Looking for a robust, usable, standards-compliant system for managing your institution’s collections of images and other digital objects? Webinars have been scheduled specifically for AMICAL members on 7, 8 and 16 June to learn more about two leading systems,…

19 May 2011

AMICAL Conference in the news at LAU

The AMICAL Conference just held in Beirut at the Lebanese American University is covered in a substantial article in LAU News. Photos capture highlights from the conference.

18 April 2011

2011 AMICAL Conference - Full program now online

The full conference program for the 2011 AMICAL Conference at LAU has now been posted on the AMICAL Conference web site.

Amanda Click · 29 March 2011

Information Literacy Workshop

Taking place 16-17 May 2011 at the American University of Paris. Are you a new instruction librarian? Do you have limited access to professional development opportunities? Would you benefit from information literacy training? AMICAL and the American University of Paris…

2 March 2011

AMICAL 2011 Conference to be hosted by the Lebanese American University

The Lebanese American University is proud to host the 8th annual AMICAL Meeting and Conference, to be held 27 - 30 April 2011, at both the Beirut and Byblos LAU campuses. AMICAL members are invited to attend, learn, participate, and share with colleagues at this…

22 November 2010

AUC hosts Academic Integrity conference

The American University in Cairo is hosting a conference on “Fostering Academic Integrity,” December 4-6, 2010. The conference “will address a number of timely topics, foremost among which are means of preventing violations of academic integrity; intellectual property…

27 July 2010

AUA helps get Yerevan named World Book Capital 2012

Thanks in part to support from the American University of Armenia and AUA Library Director, Bella Avakian, Yerevan was recentlynamed World Book Capital 2012 by UNESCO. In her letter on behalf of AUA supporting Yerevan’s bid, Bella notes that “2012…marks…

9 June 2010

Real-time information sharing during the AMICAL Conference

AMICAL2010 Conference attendees, and others interested, can share and follow links and comments related to conference sessions via Delicious.com (tag: amical2010) and Twitter (hash-tag: #amical2010). For Google Wave users, a wave has also been started.

4 June 2010

Information on E-resources available through AMICAL

For AMICAL members: A new E-resources section of AMICALwiki has been created to organize and share information about each of the database offers available through AMICAL membership. You can find there general product information, information about current trials, reviews…