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8 March 2012

AMICALconnect launched! Pilot social network for AMICAL members

A PILOT PROJECT OPEN ONLY TO AMICAL MEMBERS: AMICALconnectA social network connecting AMICAL members AMICAL’s annual conferences are exceptional opportunities for sharing ideas with librarians, technologists and faculty at other AMICAL institutions, but one of our…

6 March 2012

Studying Students across Borders: An Ethnographic Study of Research Behavior

An article by a team (A. Click, M. Stöpel, M. T. Alam, S. Kreidieh, D. Flanagan, N. F. Foster, K. Ray) of librarians at 4 AMICAL institutions, with University of Rochester Libraries anthropologist Nancy Foster, recently published in International Journal of Library Science…

22 February 2012

Full program for the 2012 AMICAL Conference now available

The schedule of presentations and events for the upcoming AMICAL Conference can now be viewed in a provisional version of the full conference program. For a detailed view of presentations, including abstracts, you can also see AMICAL 2012 Conference Sessions and Abstracts.…

24 January 2012

2012 AMICAL Conference website launched - registration now open

The American University of Sharjah has launched the conference site for the Ninth Annual AMICAL Meeting and Conference. AMICAL members and invited guests may now register. Information about registration, who should attend, and available support for attendance, can be found…

24 January 2012

Deadline approaching for AMICAL Conference presentation proposals!

FOR AMICAL MEMBERS - a reminder that proposals are due 31 January 2012 - see guidelines below: Call for proposals AMICAL’s annual conference is the one opportunity each year for you to meet with colleagues from the other American international universities, learn…

21 November 2011

2012 AMICAL Conference at American University of Sharjah

The next AMICAL Annual Meeting and Conference will be held 4-7 April 2012 at the American University of Sharjah. The working theme of the conference is “The value of library and information services - Sharing data and assessing impact.” Initial program details…

29 September 2011

American University of Armenia celebrates “20 Years of Advancement”

The American University of Armenia this month celebrates its 20th anniversary with a program of events at AUA, in Yerevan, and in the U.S.: A Celebration of EducationSeptember 26-October 1

22 July 2011

Cendrella Habre (LAU) joins Executive Committee of OCLC EMEA Regional Council

Cendrella Habre (Riyad Nassar Library Director, Lebanese American University) was recently named to the OCLC EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Regional Council as Executive Committee Member without Portfolio to represent the interests of OCLC member libraries in the…

31 May 2011

Elisabetta Morani (JCU) and Berj Gatrjian (AUA) elected to AMICAL Coordinating Committee

Elisabetta Morani (Head Librarian at John Cabot University) and Berj Gatrjian (Director, Information Technologies and Communication Services at American University of Armenia) have been elected Chair and Vice-Chair, respectively, of AMICAL’s Coordinating Committee for…

31 May 2011

Upcoming webinars on digital collection platforms CONTENTdm and LUNA

Looking for a robust, usable, standards-compliant system for managing your institution’s collections of images and other digital objects? Webinars have been scheduled specifically for AMICAL members on 7, 8 and 16 June to learn more about two leading systems,…