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News & commentary on AMICAL’s projects and activities
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?
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
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.
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
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…
Jeff Gima & Elisabetta Morani · 10 November 2015
Workshop on “Evidence-based planning & decision-making in academic libraries”
AMICAL is planning to organise several upcoming workshops for our members.
The first of these will be a workshop delivered by Roger Schonfeld and Nancy Fried Foster of Ithaka S+R, a non-profit research service that helps the academic community navigate economic and…
Jeff Gima · 21 October 2015
Bringing focus & resources to AMICAL’s 2015-2018 programs
From Fall 2014 through Spring 2015, in consultation with the Mellon Foundation and with AMICAL’s Coordinating Committee, I worked with Celeste Schenck (President, American University of Paris) to develop an $800,000 grant proposal to support AMICAL’s operations and…