Interactive session

AMICAL 2025

Jeff Gima

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Presentation

AMICAL 2024

Enhancing faculty engagement in open access publishing

Joyce Draiby

This session aims to discuss the ongoing planning and initial implementation strategies by the Libraries at the Lebanese American University to promote open access publishing among Faculty members. The session will provide insights into the proactive

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Presentation

AMICAL 2024

First results of recent Textbook Affordability Initiative at Franklin University Switzerland

Clélie Riat

In 2022-2023 a Textbook Affordability Initiative was launched at Franklin University Switzerland (FUS) (some attendees may have learned about it at the last AMICAL Conference in Ifrane). In 2023-2024, FUS Library piloted the loan of selected textbook

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Presentation

AMICAL 2024

New OPEN services at the Bissell Library of ACT: Promoting the use of existing and encouraging the creation of OER

Evi Tramantza · Anna-Maria Xygalidou

The Bissell Library decided to create a new role for OPEN Education and OPEN textbooks and respond to our College needs. We developed and now offer relevant resources and services to support our academic community with existing OERs and OPEN Textbook

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Plenary session

AMICAL 2023

Closing session

Jeff Gima · Maha Bali

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Exhibit hour

AMICAL 2023

The opportunities for academic libraries to participate as an equal partner in the creation of educational digital projects are expanding significantly. The traditional focus on digitization, preservation and dissemination of collections has develope

Community Idea Exchange

AMICAL 2023

Project description: In collaboration with CLT, we at the library are working on the project on adoption of Open Educational Resources (OERs) as a resource base for faculty at FCC. In this regard we have collaborated for expert support with Dalal Al-

Community Idea Exchange

AMICAL 2023

Project Incubator feedback: “EcoJustice OER repository”

Project description: Our team aims to create an open repository of curated pedagogical and scholarly resources that could support faculty, students, librarians and instructional designers in teaching, learning and research related to environmental ju

Community Idea Exchange

AMICAL 2023

The following sponsors will be exhibiting: EBSCO Perlego OCLC Oxford University Press Project MUSE William S. Hein & Co., Inc. Taylor & Francis

Interactive session

AMICAL 2023

Academic integrity: Issues and solutions

Jasmina Najjar · Emilienne Idorenyin Akpan

Attendees are encouraged to participate in a 10-minute survey about academic integrity in higher education to help the facilitators prepare (deadline 20 May). Join us for an interactive session on academic integrity where we pinpoint issues specific

Interactive session

AMICAL 2023

Catherine Cronin

Overview: The workshop will focus on the practice of developing critical digital and data literacies (for self/students/faculty/staff, as required). The workshop will include two different Liberating Structures activities to invite and support partic

Keynote

AMICAL 2022

Critical digital literacies: Developing agency and sustaining hope in troubled times

Catherine Cronin

Many of us are thinking deeply about our roles as educators, learners and citizens (local and global) in a time of increasing inequality, pandemic, climate crisis, austerity and instability. The challenges we face within higher education –both global

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Community Idea Exchange

Enakshi Sengupta

15th August 2021 is a date that will remain forever etched in the memories of Afghan citizens, it was a day when the Taliban took control of the country. Students and staff members of American University of Afghanistan got severely affected by hurrie

Community Idea Exchange

AMICAL 2022

Meeting challenges through collaboration

Anastasia Logotheti

This presentation details the collaboration between the Deree Teaching & Learning Center and an instructional designer for the purpose of responding to faculty needs which emerged during the Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) period. During the campus c

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Community Idea Exchange

AMICAL 2022

Professional development pathways: AUS Library staff reflections

Yasmine Mohamed · Heba Hussien · Ghada El-Abbady

Continuing professional development (PD) for library staff builds greater confidence, bolsters morale, and grows existing skill-bases in library teams. It also values the contribution that allied professionals provide in representing the library more

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Community Idea Exchange

AMICAL 2022

Using a digital repository to showcase 25 years of societal impact of the American University of Sharjah

Samar Yassin

Digital repositories are important for educational institutions in helping to manage and capture intellectual assets as a part of their information strategy. A digital repository can hold a wide range of materials for a variety of purposes and users.

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Community Idea Exchange

AMICAL 2022

AMICAL’s member-driven organizational structures include 6 standing committees leading the development of consortial initiatives, and 7 interest groups through which members can exchange ideas on topics of consortially-shared interest. We’ll start th

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Community Idea Exchange

AMICAL 2022

An AMICAL project for Open Educational Resources and Open Access scholarship supporting global environmental justice

Jeff Gima · Antonio Lopez

AMICAL has unique strengths as a consortium that could help us advance education and scholarship on environmental issues, ultimately supporting global environmental justice. An AMICAL team including faculty, librarians and instructional designers is

Community Idea Exchange

AMICAL 2022

Community Idea Exchange #1 (and opening remarks)

Participants in this session will be able to fully attend any three of the presentations below. The moderators will introduce the format and then open breakout rooms, one for each of the presentations below. Attendees will then be able to join the br

Community Idea Exchange

AMICAL 2022

Effie Kompouri · Evi Tramantza

Anatolia College Archives holds archival material from the operational time in Thessaloniki and Merzifon , Turkey. Last June they received a request from the US Consulate General Thessaloniki. The intention was to create an exhibtion to honor the Gre

Community Idea Exchange

AMICAL 2022

An Unconference is a highly-participatory structure based around informal, but focused conversations and knowledge-sharing among peers. It allows participants to drive their own learning by continuing discussions started in other sessions, beginning

Community Idea Exchange

AMICAL 2021

“Put yourself in my shoes” - Inclusive pedagogy

George Kyparissiadis

Teaching diversity is a critical consideration for today’s classrooms. This presentation regards an active learning exercise conducted in class as part of the curriculum for a course on Advertising. Its purpose is to encourage students to consider th

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Community Idea Exchange

AMICAL 2021

3D modeling in cultural heritage field in Kyrgyzstan

Aida Abdykanova · Jyldyz Bekbalaeva

3D modeling methods have recently become very popular in documentation, restoration and preservation of cultural heritage. However, 3D modeling is yet a complex process, which requires accuracy of measurements and individual approach to each cultural

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Community Idea Exchange

AMICAL 2021

Community Idea Exchange #4

Participants in this session will be able to fully attend any three of the presentations below. The moderators will introduce the format and then open breakout rooms, one for each of the presentations below. Attendees will then be able to join the br

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Community Idea Exchange

AMICAL 2021

Crossing borders through digital media and dialogue

Emilienne Idorenyin Akpan · Ekaterina Galimova

AUN and AUCA students have been participating in online discussions of mutually selected topics to promote discourse between communities of learners and foster partnerships based on acceptance and understanding. This forum provides opportunities for

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Community Idea Exchange

AMICAL 2021

Digital collections for digital literacy

Fatme Charafeddine · Mona Assi · Elie Kahale · Basma Chebani

In this session a we will give short presentation of the UL digital collections featuring ways to use this collection for digital literacy of concepts such us: types of digital collections, digitized collections vs born digital collections, metadata

Community Idea Exchange

AMICAL 2021

Nadine Aboulmagd

This is a guided meditation session where participants will be guided through a 15-minute meditation with the theme of gratitude and loving kindness. Remembering to be grateful helps us have lives we are more satisfied with. Loving kindness or “metta

Social event

AMICAL 2021

Icebreaker and networking (Thursday)

Nooruddin Merchant

This informal session will help attendees connect with each other, since AMICAL 2021 is our biggest event yet. It’s a great way to meet new colleagues and reconnect with old friends!

Social event

AMICAL 2021

Game night

Get ready to play and laugh! Join us for our unique PG-rated adaptations of Cards Against Humanity and FUNemployed. These interactive social games will bring a smile to your face. Feel free to bring snacks and your favorite beverage.

Invited workshop

AMICAL 2021

From vision to action: Fostering engagement and collaboration in building an OER program

Regina Gong

The implementation of OER initiatives in higher education institutions typically begins with setting up a vision and establishing goals for the project. This process entails developing a strategic plan to help guide institutions on how to start an OE

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Community Idea Exchange

AMICAL 2021

A librarian turning student: New opportunities for library and the faculty

Anastasia Valeeva · Zhuzumkan Askhatbekova

At this session, we would like to talk about our year-long experiment. Zhuzumkan Askhatbekova, AUCA librarian, has joined a group of master students for ‘Data Journalism’ and ‘Data Storytelling’ classes offered by the JMC Department. We will tell you

Community Idea Exchange

AMICAL 2021

Emilienne Idorenyin Akpan

When the AUN promoted DailyChatter, I identified a learning resource to enhance reading, writing and creativity skills. Students subscribed to the digital newsletter, and then over 4 weeks they selected ten stories (from 3 sections) to respond to thr

Community Idea Exchange

AMICAL 2021

Wicked questions: Maintaining quality while ensuring equity and equitable learning

Maha Bali

I will report practical frameworks I developed during AMICAL-funded global PD event offered by OLC (IELOL Global) where I worked with 3 other education leaders on 3 wicked questions: 1. how can universities ensure equitable learning while ensuring qu

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Meeting

AMICAL 2021

Building an AMICAL Peer Knowledge Exchange: Matching needs with expertise for mentoring, training and consultation

Fatme Charafeddine · Evi Tramantza · Jeff Gima · Nooruddin Merchant · Stephen Urgola

This structured discussion aims to generate and refine together practicable ideas for facilitating peer-to-peer mentoring, training and consultation among AMICAL colleagues. The focus will be primarily on libraries, but colleagues from other areas ar

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Discussion

AMICAL 2021

Creating learning experiences: Reimagining IL instruction for Fall 2021

Christine Furno · Fadia Al Akhras · Krasimir Spasov · Michael Stoepel · Araz Margossian · Tatevik Zargaryan

This session will offer participants an opportunity to discuss one of four topics related to IL instruction for the Fall 2021 semester. Participants will choose one of four topics offered (see below). They will then meet with others in their topic’s

Workshop

AMICAL 2021

Share, rate, review, discover tech for writing and research

Jasmina Najjar

After a year of teaching online, come share, rate, and review cool tech we can all use for hybrid/hyflex courses with a writing and research component in the immediate future and for our own research and writing. In this interactive workshop, you’re

Social event

AMICAL 2021

Social mixer

Come chat and unwind! Join us for a fun and laid-back social session with breakout room madness and quirky prompts to break the ice (no shop talk here! 😀 ). It's a great opportunity to get to know one another better. Feel free to bring snacks and you

Keynote

AMICAL 2021

Bearing witness as an act of love, resistance, and healing

Mays Imad

In this session we will briefly consider the neuroscience of toxic stress and its impact on our ability to engage, connect, and learn. How will we welcome our students and colleagues to our institutions and classrooms this fall? What can we, educator

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Unconference

AMICAL 2021

Unconference #1

An Unconference is a highly-participatory structure based around informal, but focused conversations and knowledge-sharing among peers. It allows participants to drive their own learning by continuing discussions started in other sessions, beginning

Community Idea Exchange

AMICAL 2021

Nooruddin Merchant

This informal session will help attendees connect with each other, since AMICAL 2021 is our biggest event yet. It’s a great way to meet new colleagues and reconnect with old friends!

Invited workshop

AMICAL 2021

Sara Pérez · Isabel Hurtado

In a post-Covid context where the economy has impacted all sectors, including education, it is essential to rethink the role of universities, as well as that of libraries. The library's commitment to developing more services and resources to support

Community Idea Exchange

AMICAL 2021

Helping teachers adjust to use of technology in teaching

Gregory Katsas

Relating to the teaching and learning experiences of the last year, it becomes clear that the use of technology dominated education, finding teachers running to forcibly adjust. Educating the educators to use technology to effectively cover their app

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Community Idea Exchange

AMICAL 2021

Longing for “normality”? Faculty engagement & the challenges of blended learning post-crisis

Michael Kozakowski

This session explores strategies for engaging faculty around blended learning possibilities. Improving public health prognoses in some countries raise the prospect of some institutions or departments abandoning online teaching. Beyond questions of th

Community Idea Exchange

AMICAL 2021

Opening remarks + Community Idea Exchange #1

Participants in this session will be able to fully attend any three of the presentations below. The moderators will introduce the format and then open breakout rooms, one for each of the presentations below. Attendees will then be able to join the br

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Community Idea Exchange

AMICAL 2021

Oral history collection at AUCA: Accessing memories of Soviet past

Jyldyz Bekbalaeva · Aijamal Sarybaeva

The presentation will showcase the first oral history collection at AUCA. The team of faculty and students undertook a project to collect testimonies of the Soviet past across the country. The team collaborated with Library and IT Department to archi

Community Idea Exchange

AMICAL 2021

Nooruddin Merchant

This informal session will help attendees connect with each other, since AMICAL 2021 is our biggest event yet. It’s a great way to meet new colleagues and reconnect with old friends!

Social event

AMICAL 2020

Sightseeing tour (afternoon)

The Mubarakiyah tour will take participants through the heart of the city where they will have a panoramic view of the history of trade in Kuwait, exploring the traditional market within the context of a planned city. The tour will take 90-120 mins.

Social event

AMICAL 2020

Participants will have the opportunity to experience the Glass Room Community Edition exhibit and Data Detox kit firsthand and reflect on their usefulness for developing digital literacies at their own institutions in a discussion session. The Glass

Keynote

AMICAL 2020

The operating system of our lives: How we misunderstood the digital transformations

Siva Vaidhyanathan

Over the past 40 years we have continually opted for convenience at the expense of all other values. Privacy, security, thoughtfulness, truthfulness, and generosity have all fallen into the shadows of the relentless march to make every aspect of our

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Plenary session

AMICAL 2020

Anita Walz · Maha Bali · Nadine Aboulmagd · Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams · Robin DeRosa

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Panel presentation

AMICAL 2019

The battleground: How is OA changing our work? How can we advocate and foster OA?

Elisabetta Morani · Maha Bali · Sawsan Habre · Mark Muehlhaeusler

Robin DeRosa

Kristen Highland · Mark Muehlhaeusler · Amani Elshimi · Abdel Aziz Galal

AMICAL 2018

Students at the center, all of us in support: Digital competencies at scale in the liberal arts

Gina Siesing

We know that students come into our colleges and universities with uneven access to technology and uneven awareness of how to work with data and digital tools, yet we know that digital fluency, including the ability to learn new technologies as neede

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Panel presentation

AMICAL 2018

New learning spaces: Transforming the way we teach, learn and research

Anguelina Popova · Bushra Almas Jaswal · David Horn · Bella Avakian · Henry Myerberg

John Traxler

In practice its historical development and delivery have been shaped by specific historical, technical, political and institutional forces, and its subsequent dissemination is failing to recognise its cultural baggage and bias. Digital technology is

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Plenary session

AMICAL 2018

Conference opening

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Meeting

AMICAL 2018

Library Resources Buyers Group annual meeting

Elisabetta Morani · Alex Armstrong

Open to Library Directors and Electronic Resource Librarians, the Buyers’ Group meeting is the annual appointment for the AMICAL Electronic Resource Committee to inform and discuss with member institutions, providing updates on recent activities and

Mini-workshop

AMICAL 2018

Resource sharing in the digital age

Thomas Hodge · Isabelle Dupuy

This mini-workshop will start with presenting the results of the survey conducted by the OCLC Programs Committee in Fall 2017, and then focus on the practical challenges and possible solutions in AMICAL institutions of providing Document Delivery ser

Extended workshop

AMICAL 2018

Digital tools for teaching, writing, and research: Building capacity in the Digital Humanities

Najla Jarkas · Dalal Rahme · David Joseph Wrisley

Digital Humanities tools and methods have become an integral part of the educational process and emergent research in institutions in the 21st century. Digital Humanities has proved to provide a successful framework and a culture of cross-institution

Plenary session

Interdisciplinarity, co-teaching, and information literacy

Michael Stoepel · Elena Berg · Antonio Lopez · Linda Martz

Thinking and teaching across the disciplines as well as co-teaching already have a long tradition in academics; many fields now consider themselves formally interdisciplinary in nature and there is strong encouragement from university administrations

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Keynote

AMICAL 2017

Building information and learning experiences through partnerships

Christine Susan Bruce

Information literacy is about ways of experiencing the world that are personally and socially transformative. Information literacy education introduces learners to information literacy experiences that underpin their disciplinary and future professio

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Plenary session

AMICAL 2017

Conference opening

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Plenary session

AMICAL 2016

Conference closing

Committee 5+5 reports Closing remarks by Jeff Gima, AMICAL's Director

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Meeting

AMICAL 2016

Committees finish 5+5 reports

The committees have been tentatively assigned the following venues for their meetings: Digital Collections: B106 Digital Pedagogy: Auditorium Digital Scholarship: B204 E-Resources: B206 Information Literacy: B304 Institutional Research & Assessment:

Birds of a Feather

AMICAL 2016

Small is beautiful: A study of ed-tech as if people mattered

Jim Groom

Anguelina Popova · Ekaterina Kombarova

This discussion group will present most interesting findings of 2014 ECAR Study of Faculty and Information Technology from AUCA, which reflect faculty answers about their experience and expectation. After a brief presentation and discussion of our fi

Focus group

AMICAL 2015

David White

The Web is more than a means to distribute content it’s also a series of ‘spaces’ where individuals can be co-present. Used in this way it can become a location for discourse where knowledge is evolved rather than simply the location where ‘finished’

Check-in

AMICAL 2014

Check in on your first day to get your badge and conference bag! Attendee check-in will take place in the morning of each day. If you arrive later in the day you should go to the Library to check in.

Check-in

AMICAL 2014

Attendee check in

Check in on your first day to get your badge and conference bag! Attendee check-in will take place in the morning of each day. If you arrive later in the day you should go to the Library to check in.

Discussion group

AMICAL 2013

Discussion: Free and open access materials

Possible focus: - Helping users find and use them - How to handle 'accessible collections' as opposed to purchased ones - different search engines - none complete

Discussion group

AMICAL 2013

All-Conference dinner party, open to all registered attendees.

Discussion group

AMICAL 2013

Follow-up discussion on Char Booth's keynote presentation, "Informing Innovation: Contextual Investigation for Effective Academic Technology Practice."

Discussion group

AMICAL 2013

Arthur Smith

Overview of the core services provided to AMICAL members participating in RESPOND, as well as new services that have become available to libraries as part of their RESPOND participation.

Discussion group

AMICAL 2013

EBSCO Ebooks - value and integration (Paola Piretta - EBSCO) Innovation, Collaboration, Engagement: Sierra and Encore in Libraries (Maryvonne Enjolras - Innovative) Strategic ebook Acquisition: 10 reasons why ebrary Academic Complete underpins your p

Meeting

AMICAL 2013

Faculty-library study meeting

A closed meeting for JCU, ACT, AUCA and CEU participants in the project led by Nancy Foster studying faculty use of libraries.

Meeting

AMICAL 2013

AMICAL Members Council meeting

Meeting for AMICAL Representatives from member institutions.