Informal social

Join earlier to test your setup and chat with AMICAL colleagues.

Opening session

A brief welcome to AMICAL’s first Mid-Year Forum by Consortium Director Jeff Gima.

Collaborative reflection on teaching online: Looking back and looking forward to Spring 2021

In this session, participants will spend time reflecting on their Fall 2020 experience and anticipate challenges and changes they will be making in Spring 2021. There will be time to reflect individually and in small groups to share challenges and good practices. The outcomes of the session may be published as an AMICAL blog post similar to this newsletter written by AUC faculty.

Who should attend: People who teach (faculty, teaching librarians, and faculty developers).
Facilitators: Maha Bali (AUC) & Jasmina Najjar (AUB)

Break

Collaborations between faculty, librarians, and instructional designers on online/hybrid/HyFlex courses during COVID-19

This session invites participants to reflect on the evolving nature of their intra-institutional collaborations in the co-designing, teaching and delivery of online, hybrid or HyFlex courses during COVID-19. The first part will be a showcase of brief case studies of collaborations from several AMICAL institutions. The second part will invite participants to discuss in guided breakout sessions.

Who should attend: Faculty, librarians, instructional designers, and faculty developers.
Facilitators: Najla Jarkas (AUB) & Alex Armstrong (AMICAL)

Informal social

Stay on after the session, if you like, to continue conversations with colleagues in breakout rooms.

Social hour

All Mid-Year Forum attendees: come join us for some games and general tomfoolery! We’re planning some fun and conversation to help us connect with colleagues across the consortium, hang out with old friends, and make new ones. Possibly on the menu: the crunchy/smooth peanut butter debate, PowerPoint Karaoke (if you don’t want to try, you’re welcome to just watch and be entertained by your colleagues), and other activities. We may not use the whole hour – and you can leave at any time – but if we’re having too much fun, we can keep the room open a bit longer for those who wish to keep playing! 🤪 Beverages of all types and colors are welcome 🥛 🥤 🍻 🍾 🍵 🍶 🥃 🍷 🍸 🍹 🍺 ☕️ … get ready to turn your cameras on and to be seen and heard!

Who should attend: Everyone!
Facilitators: Jasmina Najjar & Jeff Gima

Informal social – room open to Library directors forum participants

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Library directors forum: “Access vs. ownership during challenging times – and considerations for the future”

All AMICAL library directors are invited to this peer-to-peer problem-solving and knowledge-exchange session, focused on e-book ownership versus access (subscription) and the advantages and disadvantages of different models for making library collections available during the current environment of the pandemic. Example questions we may address: What options are being adopted right now, and what challenges do these models present? What are your thoughts about navigating these options going forward? We encourage all participants to come with a specific challenge or issue for your library in mind, related to ownership/access. Everyone will talk briefly about their challenge in pairs; a few volunteers with experience working with and evaluating different ownership/access strategies will be asked to talk about that, and we’ll also have time for at least some participants to get more extensive small-group peer consultation on their specific challenge.

Who should attend: Library directors
Facilitators: Asma Al Kanan (AUK), Jeff Gima (AMICAL/AUP) and Evi Tramantza (ACT)

Break / informal social – room open to all participants

UnWorkshop – Navigating current challenges related to libraries, technology and learning

An un-workshop is different from the “expert” facilitator-led workshop. It’s based around topical breakout sessions driven by participants, with casual, informal conversations and knowledge sharing among peers. This session will allow participants to continue discussions started in other sessions, as well as to start new conversations and plant seeds for productive collaborations. Details about how to propose breakout topics will be sent to registrants.

Who should attend: Everyone!
Facilitator: Hoda Mostafa (AUC)

Break

Closing session

An informal look back on the Forum, and potential next steps, led by Consortium Director Jeff Gima.

Informal social

Stay on after the conclusion of the event, if you like, to continue conversations with colleagues in breakout rooms.