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29 March 2022

Small Grants: February 2022 awards and news for next grant cycle

The Small Grant Review committee received and reviewed 3 applications in the most recent cycle (February 2022). 2 applications were accepted with either full or partial funding: Title Applicant Institution Category …

20 December 2021

Small Grants: November 2021 awards and news for next grant cycle

The Small Grant Review committee received and reviewed 7 applications in the most recent cycle (November 2021). 4 applications were accepted with either full or partial funding: Title Applicant Institution Category …

7 October 2021

Small Grants: September 2021 awards and news for next grant cycle

The Small Grant Review committee received and reviewed 5 applications in the most recent cycle (September 2021). All the applications (some after revisions) were accepted with either full or partial funding: Title Applicant …

4 October 2021

Participate in the election for the 2021–2023 Coordinating Committee

The election is underway for the officers of the next Coordinating Committee. Their term will start on 18 October 2021 and conclude on 30 September 2023. The current Vice-Chair/Chair Elect – Maha Bali (American University in Cairo) – will be taking over as Chair. The…

28 September 2021

AMICAL DLA Consulting: get expert help on your digital pedagogy & scholarship questions, projects & initiatives

AMICAL’s current grant from the Mellon Foundation aims to build capacity for digital pedagogy and scholarship anchored in our members’ cultures and locations, reflecting and enhancing the international forms of liberal arts practiced at our institutions. At the…

8 September 2021

Call for nominations for AMICAL’s 2021-2023 Coordinating Committee Officer elections

AMICAL is looking for colleagues from across the consortium to stand as candidates for the 3 open Coordinating Committee Officer positions. Officers play an active and critical role in representing member interests in AMICAL’s planning and decision making processes. We…

5 September 2021

Small Grants: Spring 2021 awards and news for next grant cycle

The Small Grant Review committee received and reviewed 7 applications in the most recent cycles (March and May 2021). All the applications (some after revisions) were accepted with either full or partial funding: Title Applicant …

12 May 2021

Submit a proposal for the AMICAL 2021 Conference – Critical transitions in libraries, technology and pedagogy

The Call for Proposals for AMICAL 2021 (June 21–24) is now open, with a deadline of 30 May. We’ve made it through a year and a half of disruption of our teaching and working environments, sometimes through reinvention of our methods, and sometimes simply by…

13 April 2021

Elisabetta Morani Library Staff Development Fund — Launch of grant program

To honor the memory of Elisabetta Morani, former John Cabot University Head Librarian who died suddenly in November of last year, Karen M. Bohrer and Susan L. Perry have founded a program in Elisabetta’s name to support library staff development across the AMICAL…

1 March 2021

Year in Review (Aug 2019 – Jul 2020) & Recent Highlights (through Jan 2021)

AMICAL members, the primary audience for this report, can access a slightly more detailed, members-only version of this document. Through collaboration, the AMICAL Consortium raises the quality of libraries, technology and learning across the 28 international liberal arts…