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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…

9 March 2020

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

The Small Grant Review committee received and reviewed 12 applications for the February 2020 cycle. The following applications were accepted with either full or partial funding: Title Applicant Institution Category Activity…

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…