Jeff Gima
AMICAL Consortium Director
AMICAL Consortium
After receiving his BA in Physics from Reed College, Jeff Gima began his work with libraries as a Peace Corps volunteer, building a school library in rural Zimbabwe. Jeff received his MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois, and has worked in academic, public and school libraries. Currently based at the American University of Paris, he is director of the AMICAL Consortium, through which he facilitates collaboration between librarians, technologists and faculty at 29 American-modeled colleges and universities located across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Central and Southern Asia.
He is an amateur but avid practitioner of classical ballet. He also plays guitar and mbira and wonders why congolese rumba only partially succeeded in taking over the world.
Interests: higher education consortia, library cooperation, digital humanities
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Committees
- Elisabetta Morani Fund
- Coordinating (Ex-officio)
Sessions
- Closing session
- Opening session
- An AMICAL project for Open Educational Resources and Open Access scholarship supporting global environmental justice
- Aspirations and challenges for team projects in liberal arts digital scholarship: Conversations with ILiADS 2021 teams
- Building an AMICAL Peer Knowledge Exchange: Matching needs with expertise for mentoring, training and consultation
- Digital literacies across AMICAL: Survey results and opportunities for consortial action
- Digital literacies across AMICAL: Toward shared visions, frameworks and strategies
- Maximizing the value of OCLC membership: Effective use of specific RESPOND services at AMICAL libraries
- Official Conference opening - ‘New media, new literacies, new models: Library-IT-faculty collaboration in a learning intensive world’
- What faculty want: Panel report on AMICAL faculty use of libraries
Event attendance
- AMICAL 2023 · May 24–26, 2023
- AMICAL 2021 · Jun 21–24, 2021
- AMICAL 2020 · Jan 15–18, 2020
- AMICAL 2019 · Mar 29 – Apr 1, 2019
- AMICAL cohort to DHSI 2018 · Jun 4–15, 2018
- AMICAL 2018 · May 4–7, 2018
- TALIX: Teaching and Learning Innovation Exchange · Feb 25–27, 2018
- AMICAL 2017 · May 17–20, 2017
- DHI-B: Digital Humanities Institute – Beirut 2017 · Mar 10–12, 2017
- AMICAL 2016 · May 12–14, 2016
- Digital Pedagogy Lab Cairo: An AMICAL Institute · Mar 20–22, 2016
- Evidence-based planning & decision-making in academic libraries · Jan 22–23, 2016
- AMICAL 2015 · Apr 27 – May 30, 2015
- AMICAL 2014 · May 14–17, 2014
- AMICAL 2013 · Jun 12–15, 2013
- AMICAL Workshop: Faculty and the Library · Jan 3–4, 2013
- AMICAL-AUC workshop on collaborative learning technologies · Nov 11–12, 2012
- AMICAL 2012 · Apr 4–7, 2012
- AUP Information Literacy Workshop ·
- AMICAL 2011 · Apr 27, 2011
- AMICAL 2010 · Jun 9–12, 2010
- AMICAL 2009 · May 21–24, 2009
- AMICAL 2007 · May 27–30, 2007
- AMICAL 2006 · May 31 – Jun 3, 2006
- AMICAL 2005 · Jun 1–3, 2005
Blog posts
- Asma Al-Kanan receives AMICAL award for outstanding volunteer service · 21 June 2023
- Project Incubator follow-up: AMICAL’s EcoJustice OER Initiative · 19 June 2023
- Project Incubator at AMICAL 2023 · 13 June 2023
- “Intercultural Open Resources for Environmental Justice”: AMICAL project accepted for the Triangle Scholarly Communications Institute · 7 October 2022
- Helping students get news outside of social media: AMICAL facilitates access to DailyChatter’s independent, non-partisan news digest · 30 October 2020
- AMICAL-ACRL book on “Library Partnerships in International Liberal Arts Education” launched! · 8 April 2020
- Participate in the election for the 2019–2021 Coordinating Committee · 11 August 2019
- Small Grants: revised guidelines, deadlines, Rep roles, and live Q&A · 19 May 2019
- Supporting individuals to DHI-Beirut (and other AMICAL support for DH) · 15 March 2019
- AMICAL cohort to the Digital Humanities Institute - Beirut (3-5 May 2019) · 13 February 2019
- Survey of AMICAL members’ institutional approaches to digital literacies · 17 December 2018
- Small Grants for training: consortially strategic professional development · 23 October 2018
- AMICAL Consortium year in review: 2017–2018 · 15 October 2018
- Connect with AMICAL at DHSI 2018 · 3 June 2018
- Mellon Foundation grants $1.1M for international digital liberal arts across the AMICAL Consortium · 29 January 2018
- Small Grants reopened with new guidelines – next deadline 10 December · 1 December 2017
- AMICAL 2018: 4-7 May at the American University of Central Asia · 20 October 2017
- AMICAL is sending a cohort to the Digital Humanities Summer Institute · 11 October 2017
- Year in review: 2016–2017 · 21 July 2017
- Candidate list & opening of Coordinating Committee elections · 18 July 2017
- Small Grants – June 2017 update · 9 June 2017
- AMICAL 2017 Registration is open! · 2 March 2017
- Travel support & other financial assistance to attend AMICAL 2017 · 13 February 2017
- Funded workshops on library assessment, digital humanities and information literacy · 28 November 2016
- How to propose a funded -- or free -- AMICAL event · 30 September 2016
- Small Grants - September 2016 update · 21 September 2016
- AMICAL 2017 at the American College of Thessaloniki · 15 September 2016
- The AMICAL 2016 program: the library, the digital, and the human · 19 May 2016
- Can I get financial support to attend AMICAL 2016? · 19 February 2016
- Starting a conversation about first year experience programs at AMICAL institutions · 11 February 2016
- Make AMICAL 2016 amazing. Contribute to the program. · 8 February 2016
- Just launched: AMICAL 2016 website and Call for Proposals · 4 February 2016
- Digital Pedagogy Lab Cairo: An AMICAL Institute · 19 November 2015
- Workshop on "Evidence-based planning & decision-making in academic libraries" · 10 November 2015
- Bringing focus & resources to AMICAL’s 2015-2018 programs · 21 October 2015
- AMICAL 2016 at The American University of Rome · 12 October 2015
- Governance documents & Coordinating Committee elections · 17 August 2015
- New website · 28 July 2015
- Conference attendees: You have mail · 24 May 2015
- Welcome to the AMICAL 2015 blog · 24 May 2015