Major programs, and some recent initiatives under development, are listed below. Programs without links below will have information posted in the coming months. Contact us with questions about any of these activities.
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AMICAL professional development
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Small Grant Program
Grants to support individual staff and faculty members for professional development but also local and collaborative projects related to digital scholarship, digital collections, digital pedagogy, and library innovation.
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OCLC programs
Membership in the OCLC cooperative & access to core WorldCat-based library services (RESPOND program) and group pricing on other OCLC services.
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Institutional research & assessment
- Cooperative participation in ECAR (EDUCAUSE) and other surveys related to technology use and information literacy.
- Coordinated studies of library user communities at member institutions, using ethnographic methods, surveys, etc.
- Collection and sharing of institutional research data for benchmarking
- See our archive of past studies & surveys.
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Licensed resources
Group pricing on e-resources (library databases), as well as access to other technology resources.
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Information literacy
Surveys, focus groups and other studies of information literacy instruction at member institutions.
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Digital initiatives
AMICAL is currently developing guidelines and professional development resources to support the development of digital collections supporting local teaching and learning activities.
We also maintain a list of members’ digital collections.