Coordinating Committee

Members Council

E-Resources Committee

Information Literacy Committee

Institutional Research & Assessment Committee

OCLC Programs Committee

Professional Development Committee

Articulate Storyline: Reshaping guides, tutorials and the way you present content

CATs – An assessment tool among others Resources available.

Vendor presentations

• De Gruyter eBooks and Partner Publishers (Harvard, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia)

  Anne O Riordan

• EBSCO’s contribution to the idea of faculty—librarian—technologist collaboration: Databases, eBooks and solutions for the AMICAL community

  Dragan Nikolic

• Oxford University Press Journals Collection 2015

  Julita Madzio

• Passport: How to maximize socioeconomic and business information for teaching and research

  Ranwah Abdulrazzaq

Faculty experiences and expectations with technology: Findings of 2014 ECAR Faculty Study

Information literacy perspectives — Focus groups with faculty and librarians

Vendor presentations

• Introducing WorldCat Discovery Services

  Simon Day & Elisabetta Morani

• YBP Library Services — Solutions for Streamlining Library Acquisitions Workflows

  Daniela Mulas & David Paredes

Getting started with WorldCat Discovery Services Resources available.

It takes a campus: Creating research assignments that spark curiosity and collaboration Resources available.

Graph thinking, linked open data, semantic web, etc.: Preparing for the post-MARC world. Resources available.

It takes a campus: Creating research assignments that spark curiosity and collaboration (continued)

Sustainability matters: The liberal arts as agents for change

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Conference opening

Negotiating thresholds: Conflict and transformation in the liminal space Resources available.

Presentations

• On the threshold of a new era: A snapshot of information literacy at AMICAL institutions

  Meggan Houlihan

• The use of library resources for research assignments in MBA programs: A case study Resources available.

  Gohar Stepanyan

• Using assessment to improve library services: The American University of Sharjah library experience Resources available.

  Daphne Flanagan

Presentations

• Capitalizing on the triangulation of IT/media staff, faculty, and students in the flipped classroom in the context of a writing-intensive course

  Julie Kolgjini & Rrezarta Xhaferi

• Our path to success: Collaboration among technologists, academic administrators, students, and faculty in AUBG’s integration of Blackboard

  Lynnette Leonard, Stefani Nikolova & Evelina Terzieva

• Students as multimedia content creators

  Pandeli Glavanis & Joan Lippincott

Implementing student multimedia content production

Lightning talks

• “The winner takes it all”: Games and gamification of an information literacy freshman program

  Stella Asderi

• Assessment: Demonstrating the educational value of the academic library — Feedback from the ACRL Immersion Program

  Michael Stoepel

• Enhancing faculty-librarian collaboration: The Al Akhawayn University model

  Aziz El Hassani

• Novice programmers’ difficulties alleviated: Surpassing the learning threshold

  Joe Khalife

• Online textbook-materials for climate change science Resources available.

  Margaret Kneller

• Redesigning a library home page for improved information access: Information hierarchy and user experience research

  Dimitris Diamantis

• The American University in Cairo goes to Washington: Utilizing faculty-librarian collaborations to participate in international research initiatives

  Meggan Houlihan

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Learning how to do research in a community of scholarship

Digital humanities in practice: Principles, tools and processes Resources available.

Presentations

• Cognitive apprenticeship: A model for information literacy instruction in a virtual reference environment

  Mary Kickham Samy

• Information literacy as complex learning

  Anguelina Popova

• On the threshold of a new era: Information literacy and Generation Z Resources available.

  Dannie Chalk & Krasimir Spasov

Posters & technology showcases

• Digital collections across AMICAL institutions: Opportunities for consortial action Resources available.

  Ryder Kouba & Elisabetta Morani

• Engaging students in creating multimedia content

  Driart Elshani

• From print library to Digital Service with faculty collaboration — The case of the American University of Nigeria

  Julius Ayuktabe

• Incentivizing student information literacy learning with digital badges

  Ahmed Alwan

• Integrating Turnitin’s LTI into your LMS Resources available.

  Rosa Fusco

• Is Geogebra the new black?

  Stefano Arnone

• Learner engagement and assessment: Socrative, a tool to capitalize on Resources available.

  Giselle Pempedjian

• The effect of technology challenges in the classroom on student engagement: An experiment at a liberal arts college

  Veneta Andonova

• The mobile lab revolution: Bringing the library to the students Resources available.

  Livia Piotto

• Usage of Adobe Connect at AUCA

  Ekaterina Kombarova

• Using IT to teach economics to undergraduate students: Computer game simulators in economics

  Aleks Angelov & Aleksandar Vasilev

• Your AMICAL profile: Connecting across the consortium

  Alex Armstrong

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Conference wrap-up and closing