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Titia van der Werf · 31 May 2016

A story about the spirituality of libraries

At the AMICAL 2016 conference last month, I heard an inspiring story about the cyclical destruction and revival of libraries. Dr. Richard Hodges, President of the American University of Rome, began his welcome message as follows: “Unlike what many of you may believe, you…

Jeff Gima · 19 May 2016

The AMICAL 2016 program: the library, the digital, and the human

The following post is adapted from opening remarks given last week at AMICAL 2016, our consortium’s annual meeting and conference. This year’s AMICAL Conference is the first time that we’ve tied the theme of the event directly to the Mellon Foundation grant that is…

Alex Armstrong · 10 May 2016

Attending AMICAL 2016 virtually

AMICAL 2016 is finally upon us! Even if you aren’t able to attend the onsite event, you can still participate online. (And if you are attending, you can share this with a colleague who may not know about AMICAL yet!) The online options are: Watch the live streamed…

Alex Armstrong · 17 March 2016

New AMICAL Connect forum just launched

We’ve migrated AMICAL Connect to a new platform! Improving communication across the consortium emerged as one of the primary challenges that members brought up during AMICAL 2015. The previous version of AMICAL Connect was a full-blown social network for all our members.…

Jeff Gima · 19 February 2016

Can I get financial support to attend AMICAL 2016?

Pushing the car

The full answer is explained on the conference site — and note in particular that hotel and registration fee are not covered automatically — but the short answer is: yes, if you’re an AMICAL member. The kind of support you can get depends on 2 factors: your…

Jeff Gima · 11 February 2016

Starting a conversation about first year experience programs at AMICAL institutions

map of AMICAL members

What’s different about running a first/freshman year experience (FYE) program as part of a liberal arts curriculum in the international environment of AMICAL member institutions? Different, for example, from running FYE programs at colleges or universities in the US? How…

Jeff Gima · 8 February 2016

Make AMICAL 2016 amazing. Contribute to the program.

Poster session at AMICAL 2014.

Librarians, technologists, and faculty at AMICAL institutions: AMICAL 2016 is your conference. Below is the short version of “how to make it your conference” by proposing sessions for the program. There’s also a painfully-long Call for Proposals — which, in all…

Jeff Gima · 4 February 2016

Just launched: AMICAL 2016 website and Call for Proposals

AMICAL 2016, The American University of Rome, 12-14 May

Libraries, scholarship and pedagogy are all becoming increasingly digital, even — at a slower but increasing pace — in the humanities. How can libraries partner with instructional designers and faculty to use digital tools and methods for humanities scholarship? …

Alex Armstrong · 11 December 2015

Profiles & events

We’re happy to announce two updates to the AMICAL website. We have migrated the AMICAL 2015 profiles over to our site and recently launched and a system to manage AMICAL events. AMICAL profiles For AMICAL 2015 we created profiles for all attendees. We had done this for…

Maha Bali & Jeff Gima · 19 November 2015

Digital Pedagogy Lab Cairo: An AMICAL Institute

Thanks to support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, AMICAL will be sponsoring this Spring an event focusing on digital pedagogy, the thoughtful application of technology in teaching. Hosted at the American University in Cairo over 20-23 March 2016, it will be open to a…