AMICAL runs an annual conference on libraries, technology and learning at international American universities, hosted by a different of member institution each year. We also organise workshops and other events. Find out how to propose an online event.
June 2025
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Online
Campus-level AI Initiatives Interest Group meeting (June 2025)
This is the monthly meeting of the Campus-level AI Initiatives Interest Group. Participation is for group members only.
Meeting
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Online
Library Directors Forum (June 2025)
The Library Directors Forums are organized by the Leadership & Assessment Committee as a regular event series for library directors at AMICAL member institutions (or another librarian with leadership responsibilities delegated by the library director to participate).…
Meeting
May 2025
May 19–29, 2025
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Online
AMICAL 2025
AMICAL 2025, the consortium’s 22nd annual conference focused on libraries, pedagogy & academic technology at international American universities, will be held online 19-2, 2025.
Conference
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Online
Academic integrity in a postplagiarism era: Human rights and dignity as foundations of student success in the age of artificial intelligence
This talk is organized by AI@AUP for the AUP community, but participation is open to all interested members of the AMICAL Consortium.
Join us as we examine evidence-informed paradigms and methodologies for addressing plagiarism and academic integrity within…
Webinar
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Online
WMS User Group meeting (May 2025)
This is the first WMS User Group Meeting, organized by AMICAL’s OCLC Committee. Its purpose is to offer AMICAL colleagues, who use OCLC’s WMS, the opportunity to share practices and expertise, exchange ideas on issues of concern, and network.
The registration link has…
Meeting
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Online
Campus-level AI Initiatives Interest Group meeting (May 2025)
This is the monthly meeting of the Campus-level AI Initiatives Interest Group. Participation is for group members only.
Meeting
May 7–8, 2025
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American University of Armenia
Library Directors In-Person Meeting (May 2025)
AMICAL’s Leadership & Assessment Committee is organizing an in-person meeting for library directors with the theme of “Leadership in a technology-driven world.”
The meeting aims to help attendees understand the rapidly changing technological context of…
Meeting
April 2025
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Online
NotebookLM in action: Practical applications for teaching and research
The AMICAL Information Literacy Initiatives Committee (ILIC) is happy to announce our upcoming hands-on workshop, “NotebookLM in action: Practical applications for teaching and research.”
This interactive session offers practical, step-by-step guidance on…
Workshop
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Online
Campus-level AI Initiatives Interest Group meeting (April 2025)
This is the monthly meeting of the Campus-level AI Initiatives Interest Group. Participation is for group members only.
Meeting
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Online
Digital humanities projects in languages other than English
Join us for a 90-minute session to explore Digital Humanities projects across AMICAL in languages other than English!
Each speaker will present a project and discuss it in terms of the way it supports pedagogy or scholarship:
“Postcolonial…
Forum
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Online
Representatives Forum (April 2025)
This meeting, organized by AMICAL staff together with AMICAL’s Coordinating Committee, is part of a regular series that provides a forum for Representatives to discuss issues related to their role in supporting their institution’s membership and participation in…
Meeting
March 2025
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Online
Campus-level AI Initiatives Interest Group meeting (March 2025)
This is the monthly meeting of the Campus-level AI Initiatives Interest Group. Participation is for group members only.
Meeting
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Online
Library Directors Forum (March 2025)
The Library Directors Forums are organized by the Leadership & Assessment Committee as a regular event series for library directors at AMICAL member institutions (or another librarian with leadership responsibilities delegated by the library director to participate).…
February 2025
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Online
Balancing pros and cons of AI for teaching: A hands-on workshop with NotebookLM
In this workshop, we will look at Google NotebookLM and explore both the benefits and the challenges of incorporating it into your teaching.
Webinar
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Online
AMICAL 2025 Call for Proposals – Info Session #6
Join this meeting to learn about the available formats in the AMICAL 2025 Call for Proposals and how to submit a strong proposal. We will also answer any questions you may have.
If you’d like to receive feedback on your proposal, we encourage you to draft your…
Meeting
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Online
Campus-level AI Initiatives Interest Group meeting (February 2025)
This is the monthly meeting of the Campus-level AI Initiatives Interest Group. Participation is for group members only.
Meeting
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Online
Representatives Forum (February 2025)
This meeting, organized by AMICAL staff together with AMICAL’s Coordinating Committee, is part of a regular series that provides a forum for Representatives to discuss issues related to their role in supporting their institution’s membership and participation in…
Meeting
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Online
AMICAL 2025 Call for Proposals – Info Session #5
Join this meeting to learn about the available formats in the AMICAL 2025 Call for Proposals and how to submit a strong proposal. We will also answer any questions you may have.
If you’d like to receive feedback on your proposal, we encourage you to draft your…
Meeting
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Online
WMS Acquisitions refresher demo
This event was organized by AMICAL’s OCLC Committee in conjunction with OCLC. The meeting link has already been sent to library directors whose institutions subscribe to WMS.
We are pleased to invite you to a refresher session on the WMS Acquisitions Module.…
Webinar
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Online
AMICAL 2025 Call for Proposals – Info Session #4
Join this meeting to learn about the available formats in the AMICAL 2025 Call for Proposals and how to submit a strong proposal. We will also answer any questions you may have.
If you’d like to receive feedback on your proposal, we encourage you to draft your…
Meeting
January 2025
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Online
AMICAL Keeps Current: Teaching with AI – AI-assisted faculty and teaching librarians
The next AMICAL Keeps Current event will be led by Fadia M Alakhras (Reference and Instruction Librarian at the American University of Kuwait), Michael Stoepel (User Services Librarian at the American University of Paris), and the AMICAL Information Literacy…
Webinar
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Online
AMICAL 2025 Call for Proposals – Info Session #3
Join this meeting to learn about the available formats in the AMICAL 2025 Call for Proposals and how to submit a strong proposal. We will also answer any questions you may have.
If you’d like to receive feedback on your proposal, we encourage you to draft your…
Meeting
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Online
Library Directors Forum (January 2025)
The Library Directors Forums are organized by the Leadership & Assessment Committee as a regular event series for library directors at AMICAL member institutions (or another librarian with leadership responsibilities delegated by the library director to participate).…
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Online
AMICAL 2025 Call for Proposals – Info Session #2
Join this meeting to learn about the available formats in the AMICAL 2025 Call for Proposals and how to submit a strong proposal. We will also answer any questions you may have.
If you’d like to receive feedback on your proposal, we encourage you to draft your…
Meeting
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Online
Campus-level AI Initiatives Interest Group meeting (January 2025)
This is the first of a series of monthly meetings of the Campus-level AI Initiatives Interest Group. Participation is for group members only.
Meeting
December 2024
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Online
AMICAL 2025 Call for Proposals – Info Session #1
Join this meeting to learn about the available formats in the AMICAL 2025 Call for Proposals and how to submit a strong proposal. We will also answer any questions you may have.
If you’d like to receive feedback on your proposal, we encourage you to draft your…
Meeting
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Online
Representatives Forum (December 2024)
This meeting, organized by AMICAL staff together with AMICAL’s Coordinating Committee, is part of a regular series that provides a forum for Representatives to discuss issues related to their role in supporting their institution’s membership and participation in…
Meeting
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Online
InfoLit MeetUp (Fall 2024) – How does AI impact research practices and discovery of sources?
AMICAL’s Information Literacy Interest Group invites you to another “InfoLit MeetUp” event (previously called “Virtual Tuesdays”).
InfoLit MeetUp events are informal conversations on information literacy topics important to AMICAL members. These…
November 2024
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Online
Maximize your impact: Intro to research impact for faculty
This workshop will introduce the concept of research impact, showing why it matters for faculty members today more than ever.
Webinar
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Online
Library Directors Forum (November 2024)
The Library Directors Forums are organized by the Leadership & Assessment Committee as a regular event series for library directors at AMICAL member institutions (or another librarian with leadership responsibilities delegated by the library director to participate).…
October 2024
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Online
Representatives Forum (October 2024)
This meeting, organized by AMICAL staff together with AMICAL’s Coordinating Committee, is part of a regular series that provides a forum for Representatives to discuss issues related to their role in supporting their institution’s membership and participation in…
Meeting
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Online
AMICAL Keeps Current: Teaching with AI – How to apply it to your Information Literacy classroom
The next AMICAL Keeps Current event will be led by Fadia M Alakhras (Reference and Instruction Librarian at the American University of Kuwait), Stella Asderi (Supervisor of Academic Liaison Librarians at the American College of Thessaloniki), Rebecca Hastie…
Webinar
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Online
AI and education, one more tool or a revolution?
This event by the American University of Paris is organized for its own faculty and staff but has been generously opened to all interested AMICAL participants.
This inaugural talk in the AI@AUP Speakers series will explore the current and historical development of…
September 2024
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Online
Mastering research impact: A workshop for librarians
Join this dynamic professional development workshop designed specifically for librarians.
This session will be presented by Fiona Glasgow, Scholarly Communications Librarian at the American University of Sharjah, who will share insights and expertise in…
Webinar
June 2024
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Online
InfoLit MeetUp (Summer 2024) – IL & Metrics Support for Faculty
AMICAL’s Information Literacy Interest Group invites you to another “InfoLit MeetUp” event (previously called “Virtual Tuesdays”).
InfoLit MeetUp events are informal conversations on information literacy topics important to AMICAL members. These…
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Library Directors Forum (June 2024)
The Library Directors Forums are organized by the Leadership & Assessment Committee as a regular event series for AMICAL library directors. The forums are normally structured around active discussion and interaction designed for helping each other with challenges or…
Meeting
May 2024
May 27 – Jun 6, 2024
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Online
AMICAL 2024
AMICAL 2024, the consortium’s 21st annual conference focused on libraries, technology & pedagogy at international American universities, will be held online 27 May – 6 June.
Conference
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Representatives Forum (May 2024)
This meeting, organized by AMICAL staff together with AMICAL’s Coordinating Committee, is part of a regular series that provides a forum for Representatives to discuss issues related to their role in supporting their institution’s membership and participation in…
Meeting
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Online
Applying evidence-based practice in your library
This event is organized by the OSUN Library Resources Program and generously made available to AMICAL members.
Evidence-based practice (EBP) in academic librarianship is embedded in the way we approach our work. An EBP project might be a yearlong study with many…
Webinar
April 2024
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Online
Virtual Tuesdays (Spring 2024) – Collaborative insights! What are your current information literacy projects?
AMICAL’s Information Literacy Interest Group invites you to another “Virtual Tuesdays” event.
Virtual Tuesdays events are informal conversations on information literacy topics important to AMICAL members. These conversations are participant driven: attendees…
Meeting
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Online
AMICAL 2024 - Call for Proposals Q&A #3
Join this meeting to ask any questions you may have about the AMICAL 2024 Call for Proposals, and receive advice on how to submit a stronger proposal.
Meeting
March 2024
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Online
Campus-level responses to generative AI: An AMICAL panel & workshop
Join AMICAL colleagues for an event on developing campus-level responses to generative AI.
Workshop
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Online
AMICAL 2024 - Call for Proposals Q&A #2
Join this meeting to ask any questions you may have about the AMICAL 2024 Call for Proposals, and receive advice on how to submit a stronger proposal.
Meeting
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Online
AMICAL 2024 - Call for Proposals Q&A #1
Join this meeting to ask any questions you may have about the AMICAL 2024 Call for Proposals, and receive advice on how to submit a stronger proposal.
Meeting
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Online
Representatives Forum (March 2024)
This meeting, organized by AMICAL staff together with AMICAL’s Coordinating Committee, is part of a regular series that provides a forum for Representatives to discuss issues related to their role in supporting their institution’s membership and participation in…
Meeting
February 2024
Feb 13–21, 2024
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Online
Mid-Year Forum 2024
AMICAL invites you to our third online Mid-Year Forum on 13–21 February 2024!
Led by AMICAL members or invited speakers, Forum sessions address timely issues in libraries, technology, and pedagogy.
This year’s sessions will focus on generative AI &…
Forum
January 2024
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Online
Representatives Forum (Jan 2024)
This meeting, organized by AMICAL staff together with AMICAL’s Coordinating Committee, is part of a regular series that provides a forum for Representatives to discuss issues related to their role in supporting their institution’s membership and participation in…
Meeting
December 2023
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Online
Library Directors Forum (Dec 2023) – AI Literacy for Librarians (2/2)
The Library Directors Forums are organized by the Leadership & Assessment Committee as a regular event series for AMICAL library directors. The forums are normally structured around active discussion and interaction designed for helping each other with challenges or…
Meeting
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Online
AMICAL Keeps Current – Oral histories and decolonial practice
AMICAL Keeps Current is an event series for discussing a recent publication (such as articles, book chapters, presentation recordings, webinars, etc.), selected by a different committee or interest group each month. Members may also suggest publications for…
Other
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Online
Library Directors Forum (Dec 2023) – AI Literacy for Librarians (1/2)
The Library Directors Forums are organized by the Leadership & Assessment Committee as a regular event series for AMICAL library directors. The forums are normally structured around active discussion and interaction designed for helping each other with challenges or…
Meeting
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Online
Virtual Tuesdays – Synergy of open education and information literacy (Dec 2023)
AMICAL’s Information Literacy Interest Group invites you to another “Virtual Tuesdays” event.
Virtual Tuesdays events are informal conversations on information literacy topics important to AMICAL members. These conversations are participant driven: attendees…
Forum
November 2023
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Online
Generative AI tools in higher education: Disruptors and innovators? A virtual forum
This event is organized by the OSUN Library Resources Program and generously made available to AMICAL members.
In this webinar, two academic librarians will share how generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT are disrupting and innovating library services,…
Webinar
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Online
AMICAL Keeps Current – Where does ChatGPT fit into the Framework for Information Literacy? The possibilities and problems of AI in library instruction
AMICAL Keeps Current is an event series for discussing a recent publication (such as articles, book chapters, presentation recordings, webinars, etc.), selected by a different committee or interest group each month. Members may also suggest publications for…
Other
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Online
Representatives Forum (Nov 2023)
This meeting, organized by AMICAL staff together with AMICAL’s Coordinating Committee, is part of a regular series that provides a forum for Representatives to discuss issues related to their role in supporting their institution’s membership and participation in…
Meeting
October 2023
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Online
Open Educational Resources and information literacy: Librarian roles and resources
Organized by the OSUN Library Resources Program and made available to AMICAL members.
Open Educational Resources (OER) not only promote student success by lowering textbook costs for students, they also have the potential to increase accessibility, diversity,…
Webinar
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Online
Why ‘Open’ matters in a GenAI world
Organized by the OSUN Library Resources Program and made available to AMICAL members.
The word ‘open’ means many things to many people, but it is always about who gets to participate and who gets to decide. It is, fundamentally, about valuing the ‘who’ – it is about…
Webinar
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Scholarly publishing in transition
To celebrate International Open Access Week, join us for a presentation on the transition of the scholarly publishing market from a subscription-based system to open access.
Colleen Campbell (from the Max Planck Digital Library) will provide a brief history…
Webinar
Oct 2–12, 2023
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Online
Open House
We’re thrilled to invite you to the AMICAL Open House, a two-week event series that’s all about connecting and getting inspired for the year ahead. You won’t want to miss this!
🗓️ When: 2–16 October 2023
🕒 Time: Various times, check the…
Meeting
September 2023
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Online
Virtual Tuesdays – How do IL librarians support faculty members in research? (Sep 2023)
AMICAL’s Information Literacy Interest Group invites you to the first of this year’s “Virtual Tuesdays” event series.
Virtual Tuesdays events are informal conversations on information literacy topics important to AMICAL members. These conversations are…
Forum
July 2023
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Online
Successfully meeting user expectations with WorldShare ILL: two library case studies (OCLC Event Series, Summer 2023)
AMICAL’s OCLC Committee in conjunction with OCLC has organized an event series offering updates about the Arabization and Arabic searching project, data sync, and resource sharing.
Presenters: Nikolina Ivanova-Bell (Library Director, American University in Bulgaria)…
Webinar
June 2023
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Online
Using ChatGPT and artificial intelligence tools in instruction to promote AI literacy
There has been a flood of news concerning ChatGPT in recent months. You may have heard some unfavorable news reports about it, such as how it may be used by students to plagiarize or how the content it generates may include errors…
Webinar
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Data sync: why it matters and what it means for your collections (OCLC Event Series, Summer 2023)
AMICAL’s OCLC Committee in conjunction with OCLC has organized an event series offering updates about the Arabization and Arabic searching project, data sync, and resource sharing.
Presenters: Paul Shackleton (Metadata Operations Manager, OCLC), with an introduction…
Webinar
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Online
Library Directors Forum (June 2023)
These forums, organized by AMICAL staff and the Leadership & Assessment Committee, are part of our regular event series for AMICAL library directors. The forums are normally structured around active discussion and interaction designed for helping each other with…
Meeting
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Online
ChatGPT and the future of industry and higher education
The release of ChatGPT has generated significant academic and professional interest and instigated a vibrant discussion on the opportunities offered and challenges posed by powerful and readily accessible generative AI reshaping teaching and learning at…
Webinar
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Arabization and Arabic searching in WorldCat Discovery (OCLC Event Series, Summer 2023)
AMICAL’s OCLC Committee in conjunction with OCLC has organized an event series offering updates about the Arabization and Arabic searching project, data sync, and resource sharing.
Presenter: Omar Farhoud (Senior Library Services Consultant, OCLC)
Back in May 2022,…
Webinar
May 2023
May 24–26, 2023
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Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane
AMICAL 2023
AMICAL 2023, our next annual meeting and conference, will be held May 24–26 at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco.
Conference
April 2023
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Online
Library Directors Forum (April 2023)
These forums, organized by AMICAL staff and the Leadership & Assessment Committee, are part of our regular event series for AMICAL library directors. The forums are normally structured around active discussion and interaction designed for helping each other with…
Meeting
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Online
Representatives Forum (April 2023)
This meeting, organized by AMICAL Staff together with AMICAL’s Coordinating Committee, is part of a regular series that provides a forum for Representatives to discuss issues related to their role in supporting their institution’s membership and participation in…
Meeting
March 2023
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Online
AMICAL Keeps Current – Emotional Labor of Instruction Librarians: Causes, Impact, and Management by Lorraine Evans and Karen Sobel
AMICAL Keeps Current is an event series for discussing a recent publication (such as articles, book chapters, presentation recordings, webinars, etc.), selected by a different committee or interest group each month. Members may also suggest publications for discussion.…
Other
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Online
Representatives Forum (March 2023)
This meeting, organized by AMICAL Staff together with AMICAL’s Coordinating Committee, is part of a regular series that provides a forum for Representatives to discuss issues related to their role in supporting their institution’s membership and participation in…
Meeting
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Online
AMICAL Q&A #2 (March 2023)
Attend this meeting if you have questions about applying to our Small Grant program or how you can participate in AMICAL activities.
AMICAL staff will be on hand to answer questions, listen to your feedback and provide advice. If we end up with lots of…
Meeting
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Online
AMICAL Q&A #1 (March 2023)
Attend this meeting if you have questions about applying to our Small Grant program or how you can participate in AMICAL activities.
AMICAL staff will be on hand to answer questions, listen to your feedback and provide advice. If we end up with lots of…
Meeting
February 2023
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Online
From transactional to integral: Re-envisioning information literacy
Among the many legacies of academic libraries that continue to shape our daily practice, one-shot instruction sessions are perhaps the most baffling. Born out of necessity and demand, this model for teaching has continued to dominate the information literacy…
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Open research: Why it’s important, how to make research more open and how to drive change
Open research embodies the idea of making research more transparent and efficient and advances research collaboration. It promotes open access to research results, data, protocols and other aspects of the scientific process. It is recognized by UNESCO as “a true…
Webinar
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Library Directors Forum (February 2023)
These forums, organized by AMICAL staff and the Leadership & Assessment Committee, are part of our regular event series for AMICAL library directors. The forums are normally structured around active discussion and interaction designed for helping each other with…
Meeting
January 2023
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Online
Virtual Tuesdays – Informal conversations about information literacy (Jan 2023)
AMICAL’s Information Literacy Interest Group invites you to the “Virtual Tuesdays” series of events. The objective of these events is to facilitate informal conversations about information literacy topics, including sharing ideas and best practices about current…
Forum
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Online
Digitally mapping literary spaces with Google My Maps, StoryMapJS, and Palladio (2/2) – Pedagogical applications
This is the second of a two-part workshop series on digitally mapping literary spaces led by Najla Jarkas, AMICAL’s Digital Liberal Arts Mellon Fellow. You may attend both or just one of the workshops.
This session on will carry on from where we left the…
Workshop
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AMICAL Q&A (January 2023)
Attend this meeting if you have questions about applying to one of our programs (Small Grants, Digital Liberal Arts Cohort, etc.) or how you can participate in AMICAL activities.
AMICAL staff will be on hand to answer questions, listen to your feedback and…
Meeting
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Online
Digitally mapping literary spaces with Google My Maps, StoryMapJS, and Palladio (1/2) – Hands-on training
This is the first of a two-part workshop series on digitally mapping literary spaces led by Najla Jarkas, AMICAL’s Digital Liberal Arts Mellon Fellow. You may attend both or just one of the workshops.
This session offers hands-on training on digitally…
Workshop
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Online
Representatives Forum (January 2023)
This meeting, organized by AMICAL Staff together with AMICAL’s Coordinating Committee, is part of a regular series that provides a forum for Representatives to discuss issues related to their role in supporting their institution’s membership and participation in…
Meeting
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Online
AMICAL 2023 Q&A #2
Attend this meeting if you have questions about submitting a proposal to AMICAL 2023 or applying to the Project Incubator. AMICAL staff will be on hand to talk through your ideas, answer questions and provide advice.
Meeting
December 2022
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Online
AMICAL 2023 Q&A #1
Attend this meeting if you have questions about submitting a proposal to AMICAL 2023 or applying to the Project Incubator. AMICAL staff will be on hand to talk through your ideas, answer questions and provide advice.
Meeting
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Online
AMICAL Keeps Current – Online verification skills
AMICAL Keeps Current is an event series for discussing a recent publication (such as articles, book chapters, presentation recordings, webinars, etc.), selected by a different committee or interest group each month. Members may also suggest publications for discussion.…
Other
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Online
Library Directors Forum (December 2022)
These forums, organized by AMICAL staff and the Leadership & Assessment Committee, are part of our regular event series for AMICAL library directors. The forums are normally structured around active discussion and interaction designed for helping each other with…
Meeting
November 2022
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Online
Computer-assisted textual analysis with Voyant Tools, Antconc, and CLiC (2/2) – Pedagogical applications
This is the second of a two-part workshop series on computer-assisted textual analysis led by Najla Jarkas, AMICAL’s Digital Liberal Arts Mellon Fellow. You may attend both or just one of the workshops.
This session on will carry on from where we left the…
Workshop
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Virtual Tuesdays – Informal conversations about information literacy (Nov 2022)
AMICAL’s Information Literacy Interest Group invites you to the second “Virtual Tuesdays” series of events. The objective of these events is to facilitate informal conversations about information literacy topics, including sharing ideas and best practices about…
Forum
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Simplify your e-resource access with OCLC’s Hosted EZproxy
In this session, Omar Farhoud (Senior Library Services Consultant, OCLC), will showcase Hosted EZproxy. Despina Tsilimagkou (eResources & Web Services Manager, ACG) will also share their experience with this product.
EZproxy provides a simple, secure way for your…
Webinar
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Computer-assisted textual analysis with Voyant Tools, Antconc, and CLiC (1/2) – Hands-on training
This is the first of a two-part workshop series on computer-assisted textual analysis led by Najla Jarkas, AMICAL’s Digital Liberal Arts Mellon Fellow. You may attend both or just one of the workshops.
This session will offer hands-on training on three…
Workshop
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Online
Representatives Forum (November 2022)
This meeting, organized by AMICAL Staff together with AMICAL’s Coordinating Committee, is part of a regular series that provides a forum for Representatives to discuss issues related to their role in supporting their institution’s membership and participation in…
Meeting
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Engage students in social annotation with Hypothesis
Join Loree Buchan and Steven Wiltz as they introduce the Hypothesis annotation tool and demonstrate how social annotation can transform your classroom, making reading active, visible, and social.
Hypothesis is a collaborative social annotation tool that…
Webinar
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The intersection between tutor and teachers: Lessons on giving feedback and providing guidance from writing classes and writing centers
Do you teach writing or a course with a writing component? Are you a writing center director or tutor? Then this online event is for you. Join us for an open discussion about the different ways tutors and teachers provide feedback and guidance to help budding student…
Forum
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Library Directors Forum (November 2022)
These forums, organized by AMICAL staff and the Leadership & Assessment Committee, are part of our regular event series for AMICAL library directors. The forums are normally structured around active discussion and interaction designed for helping each other with…
Meeting
October 2022
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Online
Storytelling and digital timelines with TimelineJS (2/2) – Pedagogical applications
This is the second of a two-part workshop on storytelling and digital timelines with TimelineJS.
This session on TimelineJS carries on from where we left the training in the previous workshop to pedagogical applications of the tool in the classroom. We will…
Workshop
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The Promise of Open Access: Publishing digital monographs in the liberal arts
Open Access (OA) publishing offers authors, readers, libraries, and other institutions the best way to realize the scholarly goals we as academics aspire to espouse. I will draw on my time at Lever Press to highlight the benefits of publishing your book-length…
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AMICAL Keeps Current – Digital hegemonies: The localness of search engine results
In the first AMICAL Keeps Current event, led by Anguelina Popova (AUCA), we will discuss the article “Digital Hegemonies: The Localness of Search Engine Results”.
Other
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AMICAL Q&A on the Digital Oral History cohort (Oct 2022)
Attend this meeting if you have questions about applying to the Digital Oral History cohort program. AMICAL staff will be on hand to answer questions, listen to your feedback and provide advice. If we end up with lots of participants (or questions), we’re happy to…
Meeting
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Online
Storytelling and digital timelines with TimelineJS (1/2) – Hands-on training
This is the first of a two-part workshop on storytelling and digital timelines with TimelineJS.
This session offers hands-on training on a timeline-based digital tool, TimelineJS, which allows users to collaboratively incorporate interactive, media-rich…
Workshop
September 2022
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Online
AMICAL Q&A (September 2022)
Attend this meeting if you have questions about applying to one of our programs (Small Grants, Digital Liberal Arts Cohort, etc.) or how you can participate in AMICAL activities.
AMICAL staff will be on hand to answer questions, listen to your feedback and…
Meeting
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Online
Digital Liberal Arts at AMICAL – Looking at the year ahead
A 30-minute look at the year ahead for our digital liberal arts programs.
Meeting
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Virtual Tuesdays – Informal conversations about information literacy (September 2022)
AMICAL’s Information Literacy Interest Group invites you to the first of this year’s “Virtual Tuesdays” series of events. The objective of these events is to facilitate informal conversations about information literacy topics, including sharing ideas and best practices…
Forum
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Digital Liberal Arts at AMICAL – Looking at the year ahead
A 30-minute look at the year ahead for our digital liberal arts programs.
Meeting
July 2022
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Online
Virtual Tuesdays – Informal conversations about information literacy (July 2022)
The AMICAL Information Literacy Initiatives Committee invites you to its informal information literacy conversations entitled Virtual Tuesdays. The objective is to facilitate conversations and share ideas and best practices about current information literacy topics and…
Forum
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Digital Oral History Institute (Workshop 3/3)
AMICAL is offering an online Digital Oral History Institute this summer (on June 21, 28, and July 5). The Institute will consist of three interconnected workshops that together will offer introductory, but substantial, training in the methodology of oral history. It will be facilitated by Brooke Bryan.
Workshop
June 2022
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Digital Oral History Institute (Workshop 2/3)
AMICAL is offering an online Digital Oral History Institute this summer (on June 21, 28, and July 5). The Institute will consist of three interconnected workshops that together will offer introductory, but substantial, training in the methodology of oral history. It will be facilitated by Brooke Bryan.
Workshop
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Digital Oral History Institute
AMICAL is offering an online Digital Oral History Institute this summer (on June 21, 28, and July 5).
The Institute will consist of three interconnected workshops that together will offer introductory, but substantial, training in the methodology of oral…
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Digital Collaborations cohort workshops (2/2): Pedagogy across the miles
Second of two workshops offered in June 2022 for the members of the Digital Collaborations cohort.
Ellen Holmes Pearson and Jeff McClurken will discuss techniques for collaborative teaching in both asynchronous and synchronous environments. Topics include planning…
Jun 14–16, 2022
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AMICAL 2022
We are delighted to announce that AMICAL 2022, the consortium’s 19th annual conference, will be held online on 14–16 June.
Conference
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Representatives Forum (June 2022)
This meeting, organized by AMICAL Staff together with AMICAL’s Coordinating Committee, is part of a regular series that provides a forum for Representatives’ to discuss issues related to their role in supporting their institution’s membership and participation in…
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Digital Collaborations cohort workshops (1/2): Syllabus and rubric
First of two workshops offered in June 2022 for the members of the Digital Collaborations cohort.
Jeff McClurken and Ellen Holmes Pearson will offer templates and advice for creating syllabi that incorporate digital assignments in a variety of ways, from courses that…
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Information & Digital Literacy Journal Club: Algorithmic literacy and the role for libraries
The next meeting of the Information & Digital Literacy Journal Club will be led by Araz Markosian (American University of Armenia) and Fadia Al Akhras (American University of Kuwait). We will discuss the article “Algorithmic Literacy and the Role for Libraries”by…
Meeting
May 2022
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Doing digital things with texts
This event is part of a series on “Digital methods and tools in teaching and learning,” organized by the Digital Liberal Arts Programs committee.
Najla Jarkas, AMICAL’s Digital Liberal Arts Mellon Fellow, will be sharing her experiences with integrating…
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Library Directors Forum with R. David Lankes – From serving to saving
One might focus on what serving communities look like after the pandemic, but in truth those that we serve and our own colleagues are regularly dealing with trauma and stress. Land wars in Europe, widening ideological gaps, climate crisis, a growing distrust of…
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AMICAL Q&A (May 2022)
Attend this meeting if you have questions about applying to one of our programs (Small Grants, Digital Liberal Arts Cohort, etc.) or how you can participate in AMICAL activities.
AMICAL staff will be on hand to answer questions, listen to your feedback and…
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Why metadata matters: Bringing librarians’ expertise to digital projects
This event is part of a series on digital methods and tools in teaching and learning, with a focus on “Library roles in the Digital Liberal Arts.” This talk will be given by Mackenzie K. Brooks, Associate Professor & Digital Humanities Librarian at Washington and Lee…
Webinar
April 2022
Apr 26–27, 2022
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Matchmaking event for the Digital Collaboration cohort program
The Digital Collaborations cohort program aims to foster and support collaborations across AMICAL institutions on digital projects or assignments that are integrated into coursework. It promotes the development and exchange of expertise in digital scholarship and…
Meeting
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Representatives Forum (April 2022)
This meeting, organized by AMICAL Staff together with AMICAL’s Coordinating Committee, is part of a regular series that provides a forum for Representatives’ to discuss issues related to their role in supporting their institution’s membership and participation in…
Meeting
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AMICAL Q&A (April 2022)
Attend this meeting if you have questions about applying to one of our programs (Small Grants, Digital Liberal Arts Cohort, etc.) or how you can participate in AMICAL activities.
AMICAL staff will be on hand to answer questions, listen to your feedback and…
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Empowering learners and promoting critical information literacy through student-directed content creation
The ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education emphasizes the importance of students as creators within the information environment, not just consumers. This theme runs throughout all of the frames, but is most forthright in Information Creation as…
Webinar
March 2022
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Digital humanities in the classroom: Foregrounding librarians as partners in expertise
This is the third in our series of online events on “Digital methods and tools in teaching and learning.” This talk will be given by Kristen Mapes the Assistant Director of Digital Humanities at Michigan State University.
There are many ways that digital…
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AMICAL Q&A (March 2022 #2)
Attend this meeting if you have questions about applying to one of our programs (Small Grants, Digital Liberal Arts Cohort, etc.) or how you can participate in AMICAL activities.
AMICAL staff will be on hand to answer questions, listen to your feedback and…
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AMICAL Q&A (March 2022 #1)
Attend this meeting if you have questions about applying to one of our programs (Small Grants, Digital Liberal Arts Cohort, etc.) or how you can participate in AMICAL activities.
AMICAL staff will be on hand to answer questions, listen to your feedback and…
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Library Directors Forum – New model library: Reflections from library leaders
This meeting is organized by the Leadership & Assessment Committee together with the OCLC committee, as part of our regular event series for AMICAL library directors. We will be hosting Dr. Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Director of Library Trends and User Research from…
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February 2022
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Habib University Makerspace: A multidisciplinary space for all
Makerspaces are a recent innovation in academic libraries. They are multi-disciplinary workspaces for students to create, collaborate, and engage with technology helping them with critical thinking and an opportunity to discover their interests in a thoroughly…
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AMICAL Q&A (February 2022)
Attend this meeting if you have questions about applying to one of our programs (Small Grants, Digital Liberal Arts Cohort, etc.) or how you can participate in AMICAL activities.
AMICAL staff will be on hand to answer questions, listen to your feedback and…
Meeting
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Representatives Forum (February 2022)
This meeting, organized by AMICAL Staff together with AMICAL’s Coordinating Committee, is part of a regular series that provides a forum for Representatives’ to discuss issues related to their role in supporting their institution’s membership and participation in…
Meeting
Feb 9–10, 2022
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Mid-Year Forum 2022
For the second year, AMICAL is organizing an online Mid-Year Forum for its members. The event will take place 9–10 February 2022 and is open to all faculty and staff from AMICAL member institutions. There is no registration fee — event costs will be covered by…
Conference
January 2022
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AMICAL Q&A (January 2022)
Attend this meeting if you have questions about applying to one of our programs (Small Grants, Digital Liberal Arts Cohort, etc.) or how you can participate in AMICAL activities.
AMICAL staff will be on hand to answer questions, listen to your feedback and…
Meeting
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Library Directors Forum (January 2022)
This meeting, organized by AMICAL staff and the Leadership & Assessment Committee, is part of our regular event series for AMICAL library directors. The meeting will be structured around active discussion and interaction designed for helping each other with…
Meeting
December 2021
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Representatives Forum (Dec 2021)
This meeting, organized by AMICAL’s Coordinating Committee, is part of a regular series that provides a forum for Representatives’ to discuss issues related to their role in supporting their institution’s membership and participation in the consortium.
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Information Literacy Virtual Forum: Integrating information literacy modules into English courses at the Lebanese American University
Information literacy instruction has gone through several phases at the Lebanese American University (LAU). Based on LAU libraries’ strong belief that the information literacy skills are deemed necessary not only for the students’ academic success but also for…
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AMICAL Q&A (December 2021)
Attend this meeting if you have questions about applying to one of our programs (Small Grants, Digital Liberal Arts Cohort, etc.) or how you can participate in AMICAL activities.
AMICAL staff will be on hand to answer questions, listen to your feedback and…
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The Interview Project: Oral history and digital scholarship as method for cross-role collaboration and community engagement
This is the second talk in a series of online events on “Digital methods and tools in teaching and learning,” organized by the Digital Liberal Arts Programs committee.
Event description
Brooke Blackmon Bryan will discuss projects from the Oral History in…
Webinar
November 2021
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Information & Digital Literacy Journal Club: Library databases vs. Google
The next Information and Digital Literacy Journal Club will be led by Fadia Al Akhras (American University of Kuwait). We will discuss the article “Undergraduates’ Use of Google vs. Library Resources: A Four-Year Cohort Study”, written by Carol Perruso in 2016. The…
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AMICAL Q&A (November 2021)
Attend this meeting if you have questions about applying to one of our programs (Small Grants, Digital Liberal Arts Cohort, etc.) or how you can participate in AMICAL activities.
AMICAL staff will be on hand to answer questions, listen to your feedback and…
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Discussion forum on textual analysis methods and tools
The Digital Liberal Arts (DLA) Programs committee is organizing a discussion forum on textual analysis, as a follow-up to Alex Wermer-Colan’s webinar on the same topic.
This event will revolve around an informal discussion among the following AMICAL…
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Library Directors Forum (November 2021)
This meeting, organized by AMICAL staff and the Leadership & Assessment Committee, is part of our regular event series for AMICAL library directors. The meeting will be structured around active discussion and interaction designed for helping each other with…
Meeting
October 2021
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Demystifying digital pedagogy: A modular framework for integrating emerging technologies into course curricula
The Digital Liberal Arts Programs Committee will be hosting a series of online events on “Digital methods and tools in teaching and learning.” The first of these is the following talk by Alex Wermer-Colan, the Digital Scholarship Coordinator at Temple…
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Simplify your electronic and print workflows to increase collection visibility with WorldShare Collection Manager
A webinar series organized by OCLC for the members of AMICAL’s RESPOND program.
Presenters: Annie Charlton, Team Manager, Customer Projects, OCLC; Joanne John, Senior Customer Support Analyst, OCLC.
Your users rely on your catalog to find and access your…
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AMICAL Q&A (October 2021)
Attend this meeting if you have questions about applying to one of our programs (Small Grants, Digital Liberal Arts Cohort, etc.) or how you can participate in AMICAL activities.
AMICAL staff will be on hand to answer questions, listen to your feedback and…
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Automate ILL workflows with the world’s largest resource sharing network, WorldShare Interlibrary Loan
A webinar series organized by OCLC for the members of AMICAL’s RESPOND program.
Presenters: Annie Charlton, Team Manager, Customer Projects, OCLC.
No one library can maintain a collection with everything that users could possibly need. With WorldShare…
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Representatives Forum (Oct 2021)
This meeting, organized by AMICAL’s Coordinating Committee, is part of a regular series that provides a forum for Representatives’ to discuss issues related to their role in supporting their institution’s membership and participation in the consortium.
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Information & Digital Literacy Journal Club: Data literacy for researchers and data librarians
Due to a technical issue, this event, which was originally scheduled for September 22, was moved to October 5. You will need to register again for this new date. Apologies for the inconvenience!
The next Information and Digital Literacy Journal Club will be led…
Meeting
September 2021
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Streamline metadata management workflows with WorldShare Record Manager
A webinar series organized by OCLC for the members of AMICAL’s RESPOND program.
Presenters: Jill Cantrell, Team Manager, Customer Support, OCLC.
Your users rely on your cataloging to find and access your resources but keeping up with recently purchased…
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Viewing and understanding library collections: An introduction to FirstSearch and WorldShare Collection Evaluation
A webinar series organized by OCLC for the members of AMICAL’s RESPOND program.
Presenters: Jill Cantrell, Team Manager, Customer Support, OCLC; Joanne John, Senior Customer Support Analyst, OCLC.
The speed of research is continuing to increase, and your…
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AMICAL Q&A (September 2021)
Attend this meeting if you have questions about applying to one of our programs (Small Grants, Digital Liberal Arts Cohort, etc.) or how you can participate in AMICAL activities.
AMICAL staff will be on hand to answer questions, listen to your feedback and…
Meeting
July 2021
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Tool Parade 2021: An overview of tools for online teaching and learning
In the context of emergency remote teaching, many educators are exposed to tools which can facilitate their work,and students’ learning. In this session, we will sort out and demonstrate a few useful tools for different aspects of the teaching and learning…
Webinar
June 2021
Jun 21–24, 2021
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AMICAL 2021
AMICAL 2021 will take place 21–24 June, marking the consortium’s 18th annual meeting and conference, and the first to be held entirely online.
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Representatives & Library Directors Combined Forum (June 2021)
This meeting, organized by AMICAL’s Coordinating Committee and the Leadership and Assessment Committee, combines two of our regular event series into a single forum this time for:
AMICAL Representatives — to discuss issues related to their role in…
Meeting
May 2021
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Information & Digital Literacy Journal Club: Critical discourse analysis as a reflection tool for information literacy instruction
The next Information and Digital Literacy Journal Club will be led by Krasimir Spasov (American University in Bulgaria). We will discuss the article “Critical discourse analysis as a reflection tool for information literacy instruction: A case study approach of…
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AMICAL Q&A (May 2021)
Attend this meeting if you have questions about applying to one of our programs (Small Grants, Digital Liberal Arts Cohort, etc.) or how you can participate in AMICAL activities.
AMICAL staff will be on hand to answer questions, listen to your feedback and…
Meeting
April 2021
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Introduction to “Open Research Library” by Knowledge Unlatched
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) is an initiative that since 2012 works together with Libraries and Institutions to expand the scope of open access scholarly content, making them available for any and all readers around the world.
In this webinar, Wilson de Souza, Regional…
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Representatives Forum (Apr 2021)
This meeting, organized by AMICAL’s Coordinating Committee, is part of a regular series that provides a forum for Representatives’ to discuss issues related to their role in supporting their institution’s membership and participation in the consortium.
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AMICAL Q&A (April 2021)
Attend this meeting if you have questions about applying to one of our programs (Small Grants, Digital Liberal Arts Cohort, etc.) or how you can participate in AMICAL activities.
AMICAL staff will be on hand to answer questions, listen to your feedback and…
Meeting
March 2021
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Follow-up discussion on “OER & Affordability” with AMICAL leaders of libraries and OER initiatives
In place of the March iteration of our Library Directors Forum, we’re organizing this online discussion aimed especially at library directors, to follow up on the recent webinar series from ACRL, Open Educational Resources and Affordability. We’ll be discussing…
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Information Literacy Virtual Forum: Information literacy modules for freshman students at The American University of Armenia
Join us to learn about last spring’s faculty and library collaboration at the American University of Armenia!
As institutions quickly had to pivot to online teaching last year, librarians at AUA updated their in-person course content to suit the online model…
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Annotating with Hypothes.is
A majority of the courses offered online have course readings. In this workshop Nooruddin Merchant (Sr. Associate, Library and Education Programs, Habib University) will show how hypothes.is, a social annotation tool, could be used for active student engagement…
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AMICAL Q&A (March 2021)
Attend this meeting if you have questions about applying to one of our programs (Small Grants, Digital Liberal Arts Cohort, etc.) or how you can participate in AMICAL activities.
AMICAL staff will be on hand to answer questions, listen to your feedback and…
Meeting
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Information and Digital Literacy Journal Club: Using a multimedia DH lab to incorporate ACRL framework standards into liberal arts education
The next Information and Digital Literacy Journal Club will be led by Araz Margossian (American University of Armenia). We will discuss the article “Visualizing oral histories: A lab model using multimedia DH to incorporate ACRL framework standards into liberal…
Meeting
February 2021
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Representatives Forum (Feb 2021)
This meeting, organized by AMICAL’s Coordinating Committee, is part of a regular series that provides a forum for Representatives’ to discuss issues related to their role in supporting their institution’s membership and participation in the consortium.
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AMICAL-OCLC RESPOND program: updates from OCLC, showcasing LAU, and benefits for participating AMICAL libraries
The RESPOND (Resource Sharing Program for Network Discovery) program is a joint effort on the part of AMICAL and OCLC to create new opportunities for resource discovery by library users at AMICAL institutions. Through this, your library becomes a member of the…
Webinar
January 2021
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Small Grants program Q&A
Attend this meeting if you have questions about applying for a Small Grant. AMICAL staff will be on hand to answer questions, listen to your feedback and provide advice for preparing your applications. If we end up with lots of questions, we’re happy to extend the…
Meeting
Jan 13–14, 2021
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Mid-Year Virtual Forum 2021
Faced with the new and continuing challenges of another stage in the COVID-19 pandemic, AMICAL’s international liberal arts institutions have much to gain by facing these challenges together. AMICAL’s Mid-Year Forum provides just that opportunity, bringing…
Conference
December 2020
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Representatives’ Forum (Dec 2020)
We recently inaugurated bi-monthly meetings for library directors and AMICAL Representatives, with the focus and audience alternating each month:
one month: Library Directors’ Forum, focusing on discussion and peer consultation related to issues at their own…
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Ready-made online instruction: Lessons learned from Credo IL Core
Join the AMICAL Information Literacy Initiatives Committee (ILIC) for our virtual forum: “Ready-made online instruction: Lessons learned from Credo IL Core.”
In the context of the pandemic, asynchronous online instruction has attracted a momentum of…
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Building interactive learning games and quizzes for online engagement
This 75 minute interactive workshop will help you explore online interactive tools and learning games, discuss how to select and integrate relevant tools in the online classroom and LMS, and build your understanding of how these tools can facilitate assessing…
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Information and Digital Literacy Journal Club: Revisiting the intersections of Scholarly Communications and Information Literacy
In this Information and Digital Literacy Journal Club meeting, Michael Stoepel from the American University of Paris (AUP) and Christine Furno from the American University of Sharjah (AUS) will continue the conversation about the 2013 white paper published by ACRL.…
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November 2020
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Information and Digital Literacy Journal Club: Revisiting the intersections of Scholarly Communications and Information Literacy
The next Information and Digital Literacy Journal Club meeting will be led by Michael Stoepel from the American University of Paris (AUP) and Christine Furno from the American University in Sharjah (AUS). The proposed reading is a 2013 white paper published by ACRL…
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Podcast pedagogy – hosted by AUC’s CLT
Many educators are utilizing podcasts in the classroom, and others are exploring the possibility. This creative academic output is the ideal showcase for student work with a bonus of boosting their confidence in finding their voice on topics they are passionate…
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Small Grants program Q&A
Attend this meeting if you have questions about applying for a Small Grant. AMICAL staff will be on hand to answer questions, listen to your feedback and provide advice for preparing your applications. If we end up with lots of questions, we’re happy to extend the…
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Library directors forum: Peer consulting for library leaders and their challenges
This meeting is the first in what we hope will be a series of regular meetings specifically for AMICAL library directors, organized by the Leadership and Assessment Committee. The meeting will provide a forum for library directors to help each other with challenges or…
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Library tools during the pandemic: Sharing ideas and experience
This meeting of the Open Source Library Systems Interest Group, led by Omar Farhoud (LAU), will focus on free tools deemed helpful under the pandemic to ensure sustainability of library services. The session will start by a short demo of three software (Library Seat…
Webinar
October 2020
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Engaging online teaching: Innovations tried from recent digital pedagogy conferences and workshops
An informal sharing out by AMICAL members on lessons learned from the Digital Pedagogy Lab, OLC Innovate conference, and our own Liberating Structures workshops, and experiences applying those lessons to the classroom.
This session is intended for those…
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Liberating Zoom: Strategies for online engagement and interaction #2 – organized by AUC’s CLT
This workshop by AUC’s Center for Learning and Teaching (CLT) is organized for their own faculty, but has been generously opened up to all interested AMICAL participants.
Note: Although this is a repeat of an earlier workshop, different structures will be…
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September 2020
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Information Literacy Initiatives Committee (ILIC) open meeting (Fall 2020)
Welcome back to the Fall 2020 semester!
The Information Literacy Initiatives Committee (ILIC) invites AMICAL members interested in information literacy to join for a new semester online gathering and discussion.
The upcoming session will review current ILIC…
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Small Grants program Q&A
Attend this meeting if you have questions about applying for a Small Grant. AMICAL staff will be on hand to answer questions, listen to your feedback and provide advice for preparing your applications. If we end up with lots of questions, we’re happy to extend the…
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Liberating Zoom: Strategies for online engagement and interaction – organized by AUC’s CLT
This workshop by AUC’s Center for Learning and Teaching (CLT) is organized for their own faculty, but has been generously opened up to all interested AMICAL participants.
The workshop will introduce you to Liberating Structures, a collection of alternative…
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Digital Liberal Arts cohort program Q&A
Attend this meeting if you have questions about applying to the Digital Liberal Arts cohort program. Members of the Digital Liberal Arts Program Committee will be on hand to answer any questions you have about the program and to provide advice for preparing your…
Meeting
August 2020
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More high engagement techniques for video meetings using Liberating Structures
During this intensive workshop, you will experience high-engagement techniques of working alone and in groups in a synchronous manner, using Zoom and breakout rooms. All of these techniques (Liberating Structures) can be used for making your online classes…
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High engagement techniques using Zoom and Liberating Structures
During this intensive workshop, you will experience high-engagement techniques of working alone and in groups in a synchronous manner, using Zoom and Breakout rooms. All of these techniques (Liberating Structures) can be used for making your online classes…
Workshop
June 2020
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Teaching information literacy during COVID-19: Your reflections and looking forward
In March and April 2020, the AMICAL community initiated various conversations about virtual teaching during COVID-19. The Information Literacy Initiatives Committee contributed to this conversation with the virtual forum: Teaching IL Virtually: Your Ideas, Your…
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Jun 15–26, 2020
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AMICAL-sponsored attendance to OLC Innovate 2020
This opportunity is a Director’s Initiative in support of online teaching and learning across member institutions.
Colleagues at all of our institutions have recently been confronting the need to develop capacity for online instruction, and the need to develop…
May 2020
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Google Scholar and Dspace: Best practices
This webinar follows on the unconference session at AMICAL 2020 entitled “How to implement Google Scholar (GS) for institution repositories”.
Omar Farhoud (LAU) will instruct Library IT Admins, System Librarians, Archivists, Technologists on how to configure an…
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Continuity during COVID-19: Peer consulting for library leaders’ and their challenges
Dear AMICAL colleagues,
Continuing our series of forums intended to help AMICAL members to draw on their collective wisdom in facing the challenges of COVID-19, this event aims to bring our library directors together for a session of peer consulting. The…
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Information Literacy Journal Club: How to teach information literacy in an era of lies
The Information Literacy Journal Club will meet on Thursday 14 May at 12:00, Paris time (local time). It will be led by Michael Stoepel from the American University of Paris (AUP) and Krasimir Spasov from the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG). We will discuss the…
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Small Grants program Q&A
Attend this meeting if you have questions about applying for a Small Grant. AMICAL staff will be on hand to answer questions, listen to your feedback and provide advice for preparing your applications. If we end up with lots of questions, we’re happy to extend the…
Meeting
April 2020
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Teaching IL virtually: Your ideas, your practice
Part of AMICAL’s forum series on continuity during COVID-19.
Three panellists from three different AMICAL institutions will present briefly and reflect on their practises related to teaching (or not teaching) information literacy virtually in the current…
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Working from home sustainably during COVID-19 – an online forum
In our fifth forum series on continuity during COVID-19 we look at the “new normal” of our work: working from home, in isolation from students, colleagues and without on-campus resources, while supporting ourselves and our families. This discussion will be…
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AMICAL library leadership during COVID-19
Evi Tramantza and Asma Al-Kanan, library directors of the American College of Thessaloniki and the American University of Kuwait, respectively, will co-host an online forum about AMICAL libraries leadership during COVID-19.
Attendance is restricted to library…
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Continuity during COVID-19 for writing courses
Part of AMICAL’s forum series on continuity during COVID-19.
Jasmina Najjar (Communication Skills Instructor, American University of Beirut) will facilitate a conversation on issues related to writing courses and courses with a writing component. What…
Forum
March 2020
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Scenarios for online teaching during COVID-19 – an online forum
Anguelina Popova, Director of AUCA’s Center for Teaching, Learning & Technology, will facilitate a conversation focused on pedagogy during COVID-19. As a springboard into this topic, she’ll discuss various scenarios for online teaching she has developed for…
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Continuity of instructional and library activities during COVID-19 - an online forum
The number of AMICAL institutions suspending, or preparing to suspend, face-to-face classes in response to COVID-19 is growing. We’re all struggling to organize the best response we can, learning as we go in navigating this new territory.
Join us Wednesday 18 March,…
Forum
February 2020
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Information Literacy Journal Club: The essential elements of digital literacies
The February meeting of the Information Literacy Journal Club will meet on Tuesday 11 February at 12:00, Paris time (local time). It will be led by Nadine Aboulmagd from the American University in Cairo (AUA).
We will discuss the 8 elements of digital…
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Small Grants program Q&A
Attend this meeting if you have questions about applying for a Small Grant. AMICAL staff will be on hand to answer questions, listen to your feedback and provide advice for preparing your applications. If we end up with lots of questions, we’re happy to extend the…
Meeting
January 2020
Jan 15–18, 2020
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American University of Kuwait
AMICAL 2020
AMICAL 2020, our next annual meeting and conference, will be held 15–18 January at the American University of Kuwait..
Conference
December 2019
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Freshmen above and beyond: library workshops as an alternative to first-year programs
Librarian Manlio Perugini from JCU will lead this online forum entitled “Freshmen above and beyond: library workshops as an alternative to the first-year programmes”.
This discussion is aimed to understand whether and how library workshops can be a possible…
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About COUNTER and the code of practice
This webinar will help AMICAL members become aware of the services of COUNTER and to understand the models that are available. It will be presented by Lorraine Estelle, the Director of COUNTER, and is intended for librarians responsible for e-resources assessment.
The…
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ITHAKA’s Faculty & Student Surveys: understanding how they do their research and perceive our libraries
This webinar will introduce library directors, as well as staff responsible for library assessment, to ITHAKA’s Faculty and Student Surveys. Christine Wolff-Eisenberg, Manager of Surveys and Research at ITHAKA S&R, will present these services and talk about how they may…
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Information Literacy Journal Club: Embedded students planning library instruction
The December meeting of the Information Literacy Journal Club will meet on Tuesday 10 December at 12:00, Paris time (local time). It will be led by Tatev Zargaryan from the American University of Armenia (AUA).
We will discuss an experiment that the Agder University…
Meeting
November 2019
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Information Literacy Journal Club: Digital literacies from a feminist perspective
The November meeting of the Information Literacy Journal Club will meet on Tuesday 12 November at 12:00, Paris time (local time). It will be led by Maha Bali from the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo (AUC).
The topic is digital…
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October 2019
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Small Grants program Q&A
Attend this meeting if you have questions about applying for a Small Grant. AMICAL staff will be on hand to answer questions, listen to your feedback and provide advice for preparing your applications. If we end up with lots of questions, we’re happy to extend the…
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Information and digital literacies open meeting
Welcome back to a new academic year!
At the beginning of the Fall semester, the Information Literacy Committee and AMICAL digital literacy advocates Angie Popova, Nadine Aboulmagd, and Maha Bali got together. We would like to invite you to the first “Information…
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Information Literacy Journal Club (October 2019)
The next Information Literacy Journal Club will be on Tuesday, 8 October 2019. The session will be hosted by Tatevik Zargarayan from the American University of Armenia.
Before the meeting, please read Shaping the Future of Academic Libraries: Authentic Learning for…
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September 2019
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Information Literacy Journal Club (September 2019)
The Information Literacy Journal Club is back from summer vacation and our next meeting will be on Tuesday 10 of September 2019, at 12:00pm Paris time. The session will be hosted by Christine Furno (American University of Sharjah).
Before the meeting, please read…
Meeting
August 2019
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Small Grants program Q&A
If you have questions about applying for a Small Grant, attend this meeting. Members of AMICAL staff will be on hand to answer questions, listen to your feedback, provide advice for preparing your applications, etc. No need to sign up, just follow the meeting link that…
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Small Grants program Q&A
If you have questions about applying for a Small Grant, attend this meeting. Members of AMICAL staff will be on hand to answer questions, listen to your feedback, provide advice for preparing your applications, etc. No need to sign up, just follow the meeting link that…
Meeting
June 2019
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Online
Information Literacy Journal Club (June 2019)
The next meeting of the AMICAL Information Literacy Journal Club will be on Tuesday 25 June at 12:00pm Paris time. The session will be hosted by Vanessa Lawrence.
Before the meeting, please read Hype or Real Threat: The Extent of Predatory Journals in Student…
Meeting
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Online
IL lesson plans: Weapons of mass instruction
Librarians Livia Piotto, Manlio Perugini from JCU and Chris Furno from AUS will lead this online forum which will focus on IL lesson planning and implementation using specific examples. Highlights and challenges of IL lesson planning will be addressed.
Attendees can…
Webinar
May 2019
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Online
Small Grants program Q&A
If you have questions about applying for a Small Grant, attend this meeting. Members of AMICAL staff will be on hand to answer questions, listen to your feedback, provide advice for preparing your applications, etc. No need to sign up, just follow the meeting link that…
Meeting
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Online
Small Grants program Q&A
If you have questions about applying for a Small Grant, attend this meeting. Members of AMICAL staff will be on hand to answer questions, listen to your feedback, provide advice for preparing your applications, etc. No need to sign up, just follow the meeting link that…
Meeting
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Online
Information Literacy Journal Club (May 2019)
The next meeting of the AMICAL Information Literacy Journal Club will be on Tuesday 14 May at 11:00am Paris time. The session will be hosted by Chris Furno.
Before the meeting, please read Predictable Information Literacy Misconceptions of First-YearCollege Students…
Meeting
May 3–5, 2019
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American University of Beirut
AMICAL cohort to DHI-B 2019
As part of AMICAL’s 2018-2021 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for “Building Leadership and Capacity for Digital Liberal Arts across AMICAL”, a cohort of approximately 15 colleagues from member institutions will be given project support over a period of months…
Workshop
April 2019
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Online
Teaching multiple literacies through digital liberal arts instruction
In this webinar, Brandon Locke will present a method of rethinking digital humanities projects in the classroom as extensions of traditional liberal arts and information literacy goals. Through partnerships between disciplinary faculty, librarians, and instructional…
Webinar
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Online
Information Literacy Journal Club (April 2019)
The next meeting of the AMICAL Information Literacy Journal Club will be on Tuesday, April 9th, at 11am Paris time. The session will be hosted by Livia Piotto and Chris Furno.
Before the meeting, please read The Almost Experts: Capstone Students and the Research…
Meeting
March 2019
Mar 29 – Apr 1, 2019
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American University in Cairo
AMICAL 2019
AMICAL 2019, our next annual meeting and conference, will be held 29 March to 1 April at the American University in Cairo.
Conference
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Online
Information Literacy Journal Club (March 2019)
The next meeting of the AMICAL Information Literacy Journal Club will be on Tuesday 12 March at 11:00am Paris time . The session will be hosted by Livia Piotto and Chris Furno.
Before the meeting, please read Crossing the threshold: reflective practice in information…
Meeting
February 2019
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Online
LibQUAL standardized survey for library assessment
The LibQUAL Survey Results webinar will provide a brief background on the survey components, customization process, and dimensions and will focus on survey results and how to interpret them. Amy Yeager and Angela Pappalardo will go over the notebook structure and…
Webinar
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Online
Information Literacy Journal Club (Feburary 2019)
The first meeting of the AMICAL Information Literacy Journal Club for 2019 will be on Tuesday 12 February at 11:00am Paris time. The session will be hosted by Ivana Stevanovic.
Before the meeting, please read Information Literacy as a Human Right, by Paul Sturges and…
Meeting
December 2018
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Online
Information Literacy Journal Club (December 2018)
This meeting of the Information Literacy Journal Club will be led by Jasmina Najjar (AUB) with Vanessa Lawrence (AUC).
Before the meeting, please read “Fake news judgement: The case of undergraduate students at Notre Dame University-Louaize, Lebanon”, by Maroun El…
Meeting
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Online
First Year Experience programs across AMICAL libraries
Organized by the Information Literacy Committee
Join us for the upcoming virtual forum: “First Year Experience programs across AMICAL libraries” on Tuesday, 11 December at 11:00 am (Paris time) (local time).
Attendees’ input from the ILC’s October meeting…
Webinar
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Online
Improving the discoverability of non-English language materials
In this session, attendees will learn how to provide subject access to non-English materials in the language of the script and how to link the non-English term to external sources via linked data techniques. This will allow users to search the catalog by subject in…
Webinar
November 2018
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Online
Incorporating spatial and temporal digital mapping into humanities research and teaching
In recent years, digital mapping technology has made itself more available through easy to navigate technology which can often be acquired at low or no cost. Because of this development now more than ever the visualizations you can create with these tools are ready to…
Webinar
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Online
Information Literacy Journal Club (November 2018)
This meeting of the Information Literacy Journal Club will be led by Vanessa Lawrence (AUC) & Tatevik Zargaryan (AUA)
Before the meeting, please read “Outcomes Assessment in Undergraduate Information Literacy Instruction: A Systematic Review”, by Allison…
Meeting
October 2018
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Online
Information Literacy Committee open meeting
Dear AMICAL librarians teaching information literacy!
Welcome back to a new academic year. The Information Literacy Committee has been getting ready to hear from you!
On Tuesday, October 30, 11am (Paris time), please join us for this year’s “AMICAL Information…
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Online
Open Source Library Systems meeting (October 2018)
A meeting of the Open Source Library System Interest Group, convened by Omar Farhoud (AUB).
In order to attend the meeting you must register, by clicking on the link below.
The meeting will be conducted using Zoom, which may require installation. Test your setup in…
Meeting
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Online
Information Literacy Journal Club (October 2018)
This meeting of the Information Literacy Journal Club will be led by Tatevik Zargaryan (AUA).
The article for discussion, which participants should read in advance, is: “Writing Information Literacy in First-Year Composition: A Collaboration among Faculty and…
Meeting
September 2018
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Online
Information Literacy Journal Club (September 2018)
This meeting of the Information Literacy Journal Club will be led by Michael Stoepel (AUP) and Aziz El Hassani (AUI).
The article for discussion, which participants should read in advance, is: “A Roadmap for Assessing Student Learning Using the New Framework for…
Meeting
June 2018
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Online
Information Literacy Journal Club: Student reflections on the ACRL IL Framework
The next meeting of the Information Literacy Journal Club will be led by Vanessa Lawrence & Kathryn Vanderboll (AUC).
We will all read the article “Transformative? Integrative? Troublesome? Undergraduate student reflections on information literacy threshold concepts”…
Meeting
Jun 4–15, 2018
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Online
AMICAL cohort to DHSI 2018
AMICAL is organizing coordinated participation by a member-cohort in DHSI 2018, the Digital Humanities Summer Institute.
External event
May 2018
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Online
Backward design for digital project-course integration
In this 45-minute presentation Ashley Sanders Garcia will provide participants with a road map for planning a course that incorporates, or is built around, a digital humanities project based on the principles of “backward design.” This talk will cover the basics of…
Webinar
May 4–7, 2018
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American University of Central Asia
AMICAL 2018
AMICAL 2018, our next annual meeting and conference, will be held 4–7 May at the American University of Central Asia.
Conference
April 2018
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Online
Digital pedagogy meets information literacy: Reflections on the “NMC Strategic Brief on Digital Literacy II 2017”
The third meeting of the AMICAL Information Literacy Journal Club teams up with AMICAL’s Digital Pedagogy Committee. It will be led by Maha Bali (AUC) & Michael Stoepel (AUP).
The topic is AMICAL Reflections on the “NMC Horizon Project Strategic Brief on Digital…
Meeting
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Online
Strategies for teaching about fake news
AMICAL’s Information Literacy Committee is pleased to announce the upcoming virtual forum, “Strategies for teaching about fake news.” Jasmina Najjar (AUB) and Tara Keenan-Thomson (JCU) will share their teaching projects and experiences in how to get students…
Webinar
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Online
Mapping in the digital liberal arts: Models, methods, futures
In this webinar David Wrisley, Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at NYU Abu Dhabi, will present some of the ways that making digital maps can enrich research and pedagogy in the liberal arts context.
We will look at examples of digital projects organized…
Webinar
March 2018
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Online
Information Literacy Journal Club: Assessment
The second meeting of the Information Literacy Journal Club will be led by Vanessa Lawrence & Kathryn Vanderboll (AUC). The topic is “Assessment”. We will all read the article “Using the ACRL Framework to Develop a Student-Centered Model for Program-Level…
Meeting
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Online
JSTOR DDA pilot virtual forum
The E-Resources Committee invites the members of AMICAL’s Library Resources Buyers Group to a virtual forum about the JSTOR DDA pilot the consortium undertook in 2017. The meeting will be facilitated by Elisabetta Morani, the committee’s chair, and Javanica Curry,…
Meeting
February 2018
Feb 25–27, 2018
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American University in Cairo
TALIX: Teaching and Learning Innovation Exchange
TALIX (Teaching and Learning Innovation Exchange) is an event focusing on teaching innovation and digital education, to be held on February 25-27, 2018 at the American University in Cairo.
Workshop
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Online
Information Literacy Journal Club: Outreach to faculty
The first meeting of the AMICAL Information Literacy Journal Club will have “Outreach to faculty” as its topic.
Meeting
January 2018
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Online
ACRL-AMICAL “Library partnerships in international liberal arts education” project: Q&A session 2
Informal Question & Answer sessions with the principal organizers of the ACRL-AMICAL “Library partnerships in international liberal arts education” project.
Meeting
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Online
ACRL-AMICAL “Library partnerships in international liberal arts education” project: Q&A session 1
Informal Question & Answer sessions with the principal organizers of the ACRL-AMICAL “Library partnerships in international liberal arts education” project.
Meeting
December 2017
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Online
E-portfolios
A webinar discussing e-portfolios in our various institutions – how we define them, why we use them, different models of implementing them in courses and institutionally, and how we assess their effectiveness.
Webinar
November 2017
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Online
Staying current in information literacy: Experiences and opportunities
AMICAL’s Information Literacy Committee will share how our AMICAL colleagues engage and keep abreast of the latest trends in information literacy.
Webinar
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Online
Information Literacy Committee open meeting
Organized by the Information Literacy Committee
Dear AMICAL librarians teaching information literacy!
During the last AMICAL conference in Thessaloniki, we had discussions on how to improve conversations among us which could be beneficial to us as professionals in…
Meeting
October 2017
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Online
Blended learning in AMICAL institutions
A webinar discussing blended learning in our various institutions – how we define it, why we do it, different models of implementing it in courses, and how we assess its effectiveness.
Webinar
May 2017
May 17–20, 2017
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American College of Thessaloniki
AMICAL 2017
AMICAL 2017, our next annual meeting and conference, will be held 17–20 May at the American College of Thessaloniki. Our theme will be “Centering on learning: Partnerships and professional development among librarians, faculty and technologists”.
Conference
March 2017
Mar 31 – Apr 1, 2017
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American University of Paris
Co-design: Integrating information literacy into your disciplinary course
A workshop on information literacy for teams of faculty and librarians, to be held spring 2017 at the American University of Paris.
Workshop
Mar 10–12, 2017
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American University of Beirut
DHI-B: Digital Humanities Institute – Beirut 2017
An event focused on providing digital humanities training, to be held 10-12 March 2017 at the American University of Beirut.
Workshop
January 2017
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Online
Explore and create compelling eLearning experience with Adobe Captivate
Rrezarta Xhaferi will introduce us to the development of interesting and engaging e-courses using Adobe Captivate.
Webinar
Jan 26–27, 2017
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American University of Kuwait
Assessing and communicating library contributions to institutional priorities
A workshop on strategic and sustainable assessment for academic libraries, to be held 26-27 January 2017 at the American University of Kuwait.
Workshop
December 2016
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Online
Digital collections: Where to begin?
Organised by the Digital Collections Committee, this webinar will cover the value of building digital collections, selection of holdings to be digitized, and a showcase of existing AMICAL institution’s digital collections.
Webinar
November 2016
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Online
Podcasts in education
CORRECTION: In our initial announcement, the time was wrong. This webinar will take place at 8am Paris time, not 10am. Our sincere apologies for any inconvenience.
If you are looking for alternative ways to reach your students, engage them with your course, or if you…
Webinar
Nov 9–10, 2016
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Online
Hypothes.is annotathon on digital literacies
A 2-day asynchronous annotation using Hypothes.is, led by Maha Bali and Nadine Aboulmagd from the American University in Cairo.
Other
October 2016
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Online
Thinking beyond the one-shot: Embedding the Framework for Information Literacy across the curriculum
A virtual forum organised by AMICAL’s Information Literacy Committee
AMICAL’s Information Literacy Committee is pleased to announce the upcoming virtual discussion forum, Thinking beyond the one-shot: Embedding the Framework for Information Literacy across the…
Webinar
July 2016
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Online
What is a digital project?
Digital scholarship, one of the focal points of AMICAL’s recent Mellon grant, is often project-based and interdisciplinary. During this webinar Rayane Fayed & David Wrisley will present some characteristics of digital projects and take a quick glance at some exemplary…
Webinar
June 2016
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Online
OCLC/RESPOND services training: World Cat Discovery Base package/First Search
OCLC has organised a series of free webinars specifically for AMICAL members. The webinars will introduce the services that are included in the RESPOND package.
This training will cover the following services that are included in the RESPOND package:
WorldCat…
Webinar
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Online
OCLC/RESPOND services training: Record Manager, Collection Evaluation & Worldshare ILL
OCLC has organised a series of free webinars specifically for AMICAL members. The webinars will introduce the services that are included in the RESPOND package.
This training will cover the following services that are included in the RESPOND package:
Record…
Webinar
May 2016
May 12–14, 2016
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American University of Rome
AMICAL 2016
The 13th AMICAL Meeting and Conference will be held at the The American University in Rome from May 12 to 14, 2016.
The theme will be “Libraries and digital initiatives”.
For more details, visit the Conference site.
Conference
March 2016
Mar 20–22, 2016
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American University in Cairo
Digital Pedagogy Lab Cairo: An AMICAL Institute
The international Digital Pedagogy Lab (DPL) institute comes to Cairo, facilitated by some of the leading and most compelling voices in the field, pushing at the edges of critical digital pedagogy. AMICAL members are invited to join the institute and get involved in…
Workshop
January 2016
Jan 22–23, 2016
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John Cabot University
Evidence-based planning & decision-making in academic libraries
Like other academic libraries, AMICAL libraries face budget limitations and cutbacks while also managing shifts in teaching, learning, and communication technologies. In such an environment, it is risky and potentially costly to base plans and decisions on assumptions…
Workshop
December 2015
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Online
Information literacy at our institutions: continuing the conversation
December 15: A one hour online forum to continue our conversation with the AMICAL community about information literacy at our institutions.
Forum
April 2015
Apr 27 – May 30, 2015
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American University in Bulgaria
AMICAL 2015
The AMICAL Consortium, together with the American University in Bulgaria, are pleased to announce that AMICAL 2015, our 12th Annual Meeting & Conference, will be held 27-30 May on the AUBG campus in Blagoevgrad.
The theme will be “Clearing thresholds: information…
Conference
February 2015
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Online
Setting up playgrounds for the digital humanities
In this webinar we will look at the general landscape of digital humanities around the world. We will explore digital humanities at the intersections between computational approaches to culture, knowledge design and curation, and scholarly networks. In particular, we…
Webinar
November 2014
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Online
Threshold concepts and the ACRL Information Literacy Framework
The new ACRL Framework for Information Literacy has been inspired by threshold concepts, an emerging theory that urges instructors to engage students in the Big Ideas that guide their discipline. Threshold concepts represent a strikingly different approach to…
Webinar
May 2014
May 14–17, 2014
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American College of Greece
AMICAL 2014
The 11th AMICAL Meeting and Conference was held at the American College of Greece from May 14 to 17, 2014.
The theme was “Student engagement and learning spaces”.
Resources
Conference SiteProgram Proposal Instructions and FormRegistrationFinancial support…
Conference
April 2014
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Online
Bring your A game: 10 tips for a great conference presentation
When: Wednesday 9 April 2014, 8:00-9:00am US central time (see local time conversion)
Speaker:John WattsInstruction and Liaison Librarian Webster University
About the webinar: see announcement
How to attend this webinar:
Test your system: As far in…
Webinar
March 2014
Mar 21–22, 2014
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RIT Kosovo (A.U.K)
Engage students in creative multimedia content production
A 2-day International Workshop sponsored by AMICAL. Organized by The American University in Kosovo in collaboration with The American University in Cairo.
Student-centered teaching and learning is widely accepted as the most effective pedagogy to be used in Higher…
Workshop
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Online
Tools & methods for understanding AMICAL’s library communities with Ithaka S+R
Roger Schonfeld will talk about Ithaka’s faculty and now student surveys of library expectations, and how they might be adapted for AMICAL institutions; Nancy Foster will talk about ethnographic methods for studying library communities and how we might expand upon…
Webinar
February 2014
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Online
Alternatives to high-cost textbooks: UMass Amherst Open Education Initiative
The high cost and lack of availability of commercial print textbooks is a major concern to both students and their parents. To address these concerns, the Provost’s Office and the University Libraries of the University of Massachusetts Amherst launched the Open…
Webinar
November 2013
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Online
Open educational resources in higher ed: The state of “open”
Invited Speaker: Audrey Watters (noted writer on higher ed learning technologies, author of blog Hack Education)
When: Monday, 25 November 2013, 9:00am US Eastern time (click to see your local time)Where: Online - Adobe ConnectMeeting link: [ View the webinar recording…
Webinar
June 2013
Jun 12–15, 2013
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John Cabot University
AMICAL 2013
New media, new literacies, new models: Library-IT-Faculty collaboration in a learning intensive world
12-15 June 2013John Cabot University (Rome)
AMICAL’s annual conference is the one opportunity each year for AMICAL members to meet face to face with…
Conference
May 2013
May 27–31, 2013
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American University of Beirut
AMICAL-AUB workshop on RDA
An intensive 5-day workshop on RDA (Resource Description & Access), scheduled to take place at the American University of Beirut between May 27th and May 31st, 2013.
Workshop
April 2013
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Online
Info lit at AMICAL institutions: An online conversation about visions and realities
An online discussion about information literacy programs at our institutions.
Forum
March 2013
Mar 8–9, 2013
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Lebanese American University
AMICAL-OCLC forum on “The challenges of discovery services”
Intended for: E-resource and other librarians from OCLC (RESPOND) member libraries who are currently or will soon be involved in the selection process for a discovery service, or those who are currently directly involved with the management of discovery services. Total…
Workshop
January 2013
Jan 3–4, 2013
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John Cabot University
AMICAL Workshop: Faculty and the Library
Workshop with anthropologist Nancy Fried Foster on using ethnographic methods to identify how faculty members use any library for their own research, how they use the institutional library in their teaching, and what they expect and hope that their students could do…
Workshop
December 2012
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Online
Embedded librarians: ACRL webcast follow-up
I would like to invite ALL AMICAL members to participate in the Embedded Librarians: Integrating IL Instruction at the Point of Need follow-up discussion! During this session, we will be discussing practical solutions to embedding problems and best practices, as well as…
Forum
November 2012
Nov 11–12, 2012
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American University in Cairo
AMICAL-AUC workshop on collaborative learning technologies
A workshop for learning exchanging best practices and innovative ideas for the use of videoconferencing and other collaborative learning technologies, in a participative group environment with colleagues from similar institutions.
Workshop
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Online
E-books virtual conference follow-up
Don’t forget, AMICAL will be hosting a follow-up to the e-books virtual conference tomorrow, November 6, 2012, at 12pm (Paris time)!
Prepare for this discuss by testing your adobe Connect…
Forum
October 2012
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Online
ACRL webcast: Embedded librarians
Greeting AMICAL Members!
I’m happy to announce that the Association of College and Research Libraries has agreed to work with AMICAL and offer their online learning classes for a reduced price. To pilot this partnership, we are offering all AMICAL institutions…
Other
June 2012
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Online
LUNA webinar on advanced collection building for consortium coordinators
Advanced training session on metadata management in LUNA, intended for coordinators of AMICAL’s LUNA implementation.
Webinar
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Online
Introductory webinar for AMICAL libraries trialing WorldCat Local
A 1.5 hour introductory presentation and discussion with OCLC’s Amy Lytle (Portfolio Implementation Manager, WorldCat Local/WorldCat knowledge base), to demonstrate how WorldCat Local works, and help trial libraries work through some of the issues with database…
Webinar
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Online
LUNA webinar on Collection Building (repeat session)
For those who expressed interest in this webinar but were unable to attend on 29 May:
A repeat session on June 4 (9am US Eastern Time) has kindly been proposed by Nancy Harm of LUNA. If you wish to attend, please add your name…
Webinar
May 2012
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Online
LUNA webinar on Collection Building
A follow-up to the earlier General Overview webinar, this session will focus on using the Insight client software (Studio, Inscribe, and Insight) to create, edit and publish digital collections.
Those interested in attending should sign up here.Webinar attendees should…
Webinar
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Online
General LUNA overview for AMICAL members
1-hour overview of the LUNA platform being used for the AMICAL Digital Library pilot. Learn what LUNA offers users for discovering and using digital collections - and get a brief look at what LUNA offers staff for managing collections.
Webinar
April 2012
Apr 4–7, 2012
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American University of Sharjah
AMICAL 2012
The 2012 AMICAL Annual Meeting and Conference will be held 4-7 April at the American University of Sharjah.
Official conference sitePresentationsConference photos from AUS (including a hi-res copy of the group photo)ProgramDaily OverviewDaily Overview - print version…
Conference
May 2011
AUP Information Literacy Workshop
A two-day information literacy workshop led by Susan Barnes Whyte and Jean Caspers.
Workshop
April 2011
Apr 27, 2011
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American University of Beirut
AMICAL 2011
The eighth AMICAL meeting and Conference was held at the Lebanese American University (Beirut, Lebanon) from April 27 to 30, 2011. The theme was “e-Content: Collecting, Managing, Promoting, Teaching.”
Conference
January 2011
Jan 4–5, 2011
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John Cabot University
Ethnographic Study Pilot Workshop 2
Workshop with anthropologist Nancy Fried Foster on ethnographic methods for studying student research behaviors in the context of library planning and design (Pilot Group 2).
See also: Ethnographic Study Pilot Workshop 1
Workshop
June 2010
Jun 9–12, 2010
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Central European University
AMICAL 2010
The seventh AMICAL meeting and Conference was held at Central European University (Budapest, Hungary) from June 9 to 12, 2010. The theme was “Digital Assets and the Cloud: Building Digital Collections through Library, IT and Faculty Collaboration.”
Conference
October 2009
Oct 14–15, 2009
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American University of Sharjah
Ethnographic Study Pilot Workshop 1
Workshop with anthropologist Nancy Fried Foster on ethnographic methods for studying student research behaviors in the context of library planning and design (Pilot Group 1).
See also: Ethnographic Study Pilot Workshop 2
Workshop
September 2009
ACT CONSER-SCCTP Cataloging Workshop
Three half-day CONSER-SCCTP serials cataloging workshop at the American College of Thessaloniki.
Workshop
May 2009
May 21–24, 2009
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American University of Armenia
AMICAL 2009
The sixth AMICAL meeting was held at the American University of Armenia (Yerevan, Armenia) from May 21 to 24, 2009. The theme was “The Learner’s Perspective — Adapting Information Services for Today’s Students.” It took place in parallel…
Conference
May 2008
May 25–28, 2008
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American University in Bulgaria
AMICAL 2008
AMICAL’s fifth annual meeting was held at the American University in Bulgaria (Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria) from May 25 to 28, 2008. The theme was “Learning from Each Other: Assessment and Collaborative Learning.” Conference description: “How can we…
Conference
May 2007
May 27–30, 2007
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Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane
AMICAL 2007
AMICAL’s fourth annual meeting was held at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (Morocco) from May 27 to 30, 2007. The theme was “Integrating library and IT services for better learning.” Sub-themes included “Collaboration on Technology-Enhanced…
Conference
May 2006
May 31 – Jun 3, 2006
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American University in Cairo
AMICAL 2006
AMICAL’s third annual meeting was held at the American University in Cairo (Egypt) from May 31 to June 3, 2006. The theme was “Integrated Learning: Collaboration with Faculty and Shareholders on Campus.” The meeting featured presentations, working…
Conference
June 2005
Jun 1–3, 2005
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American University of Beirut
AMICAL 2005
AMICAL’s second annual meeting was held at the Lebanese American University (Beirut) from June 1 to June 3, 2005. The meeting did not have a formal theme, but was largely devoted to consortial work. Members discussed plans for the future and developed timelines…
Conference
May 2004
May 7–9, 2004
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American University of Paris
AMICAL 2004
AMICAL’s “first planning meeting” was held at the American University of Paris (France) from May 7 to 9, 2004. The theme was “Exploring Consortial Possibilities between American International Colleges and Academic Libraries: Presentations and…
Conference