AUS librarians, faculty, and staff connect with the AMICAL Community!

Librarians, faculty, and the CITL team recently traveled to Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco to attend AMICAL’s 20th annual conference.

The AMICAL Conference brings together staff and faculty from the consortium’s 30 international liberal arts institutions. AMICAL members and invited experts share their challenges, solutions and inspiration for improving libraries, technology and pedagogy in our uniquely international and intercultural environments.

Christine Furno, Engagement and Outreach Librarian, collaborated with AMICAL librarians from AUC and AUP during a Project Incubator session to develop a website and submission procedures in support of call for chapters in the forthcoming publication, Changing Information and User Experiences.  

Rebecca Hastie, Information Literacy Librarian, and Dr. Paul Almonte (Department of English, HOD) presented their year-long collaboration,  Librarians and Faculty Unite: Embedding IL Teaching in Foundational Research and Writing Courses.  

Fiona Glasgow, Scholarly Communications Librarian, presented Challenging Impact: Lessons learned from delivering a Research Impact Challenge at the American University of Sharjah showcasing her Open Education Resource (OER) course, Research Impact 

Alanna Ross, Associate University Librarian for Public Services, and AMICAL representative for AUS participated in strategy meetings in support of future AMICAL initiatives. 

It was a pleasure to participate in this year’s conference with our AUS colleagues from across campus: Jennifah Hassan (Bridge Program), Jasmina Najjar (Department of English), Paul Almonte (Department of English), Rachel Buck (Department of English), Cleo Capili and Josiah Jodry (CITL).