8th Annual AMICAL Meeting & Conference
April 27–30, 2011, Lebanon
Detailed program
Day 1: Wednesday 27 April
| 9:00 AM | Registration opens |
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| 11:00 AM - 12:00 Noon | Program Committee and Administrative meetings Najla Atiyah Conference Room 1301 – Riyad Nassar Library fl. 13 |
| 2:00 - 2:30 PM | Opening Ceremony (National Anthem) Convener: Cendrella Habre Speakers: Dr. Joseph G. Jabbra, President (LAU), Jeff Gima, Director (AMICAL) Ghada Daniel Lecture Hall BB903 – Business Building (Ground floor) |
| 2:30 - 3:20 PM | Collaborative Activities Between the Library and IT: Creating Value Beyond the Cost Keynote Speaker: Gene Spencer Ghada Daniel Lecture Hall BB903 — Business Building (Ground floor) |
| 3:20 - 4:10 PM | Lightning Talks (Theme: IT-Library Cooperation) Implementing Koha and Other Open Source Library Applications (AUA) IT-Library Cooperation Supporting Library Applications (LAU) Information Literacy Course for the 1st Year Students in LMS Sakai (Smolny) Campus Information Systems Survey of AMICAL Institutions Ghada Daniel Lecture Hall BB903 — Business Building (Ground floor) |
| 4:10 - 4:30 PM | Coffee Break (sponsored by IEEE-ACTS) |
| 4:30 - 5:20PM | Interest Groups Group A: Ghada Daniel Lecture Hall BB903 — Business Building (Ground floor) Group B: Room 805 — Riyad Nassar Library fl. 8 Group C: Room 806 — Riyad Nassar Library fl. 8 Group D: Room 807 — Riyad Nassar Library fl. 8 |
| 5:20 - 5:40 PM | Interest Groups Report Back Convener: Bughdana Hajjar Ghada Daniel Lecture Hall BB903 — Business Building (Ground floor) |
| 5:40 PM | End of Day 1 (Dinner on own) |
Day 2: Thursday 28 April
| 8:00 AM | Registration Opens |
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| 9:00 - 9:45 AM | Embracing 21st Century Challenges for College Libraries : One Academic Library Director’s Perspective Convener: Sawsan Habre Keynote Speaker: Sabrina Pape Ghada Daniel Lecture Hall BB903 — Business Building (Ground floor) |
| 9:45 - 10:30 AM | IT-Library Collaboration Workshop Speaker: Gene Spencer Ghada Daniel Lecture Hall BB903 — Business Building (Ground floor) |
| 10:30 - 10:50 AM | Coffee Break (sponsored by Springer) |
| 10:50 AM - 12:00 Noon | IT-Library Collaboration Workshop (continued) Speaker: Gene Spencer Ghada Daniel Lecture Hall BB903 — Business Building (Ground floor) |
| 12:00 - 1:00 PM | Lunch (sponsored by Arabian Advanced Systems) |
| 1:00 - 3:00 PM | IT-Library Collaboration Workshop (continued) Speaker: Gene Spencer Ghada Daniel Lecture Hall BB903 — Business Building (Ground floor) |
| 1:00 - 3:00 PM | Tools and workflows for sustainable management of hybrid collections Convener: Aida Hajjar Speaker: Matt Goldner (OCLC) EIC Room 803 - Riyad Nassar Library, fl. 8 |
| 3:00 - 3:20 PM | Coffee Break (sponsored by Springer) |
| 3:20 - 4:15 PM | AMICAL-AAICU Panel Session on Collaborative Instruction and Videoconferencing Moderator: Susan Perry Update on the AMICAL Videoconferencing Study Speaker: Jeff Gima AAICU/AMICAL Member Presentations: Elements of Successful Projects from Various Points of View (Administration, Faculty, and Technology) Videoconferencing Facilities by Berj Gatrjyan (AUA) The Experience of AUC’s Faculty Using Videoconferencing for Collaborative Instruction by Shahira el Sawy (AUC) Toyotas or Ferraris? by Andrew Wachtel (AUCA) Ghada Daniel Lecture Hall BB903 — Business Building (Ground floor) |
| 4:15 - 5:30 PM | Vendor Presentations (concurrent) Track 1: Discovery Services Track 2: IT |
| 5:30 PM | End of Day 2 |
| 5:30 - 6:30 PM | Side Event Special meeting with Lebanese Library Association: Brief presentation about AMICAL Speaker: Jeff Gima Ghada Daniel Lecture Hall BB903 — Business Building (Ground floor) |
| 9:00 PM | AMICAL-AAICU Joint Dinner (Sponsored by OCLC) WEAR SOMETHING REPRESENTATIVE OF YOUR REGION |
Day 3: Friday 29 April
| 9:00 - 9:50 AM | The Collaboration Imperative: What We Learned and Next Steps Speakers: Gene Spencer, Sabrina Pape Ghada Daniel Lecture Hall BB903 — Business Building (Ground floor) |
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| 9:50 - 10:20 AM | Educating Librarians in the Middle East: Building Bridges for the 21st Century: ELIME-21 Convener: Jayme Spencer Speaker: Barbara Moran Ghada Daniel Lecture Hall BB903 — Business Building (Ground floor) |
| 10:20 - 10:50 AM | Coffee Break (sponsored by Gale) |
| 10:50 - 11:20 AM | Preparing Present and Future Librarians to Manage e-Content Convener: Bushra Jaswal Speaker: Barbara Moran Ghada Daniel Lecture Hall BB903 — Business Building (Ground floor) |
| 11:20 - 12:00 Noon | A Shift Story: Print to Online @LAU Libraries Speakers: Houeida Charara, Rola Hage Ghada Daniel Lecture Hall BB903 — Business Building (Ground floor) |
| 12:00 - 1:00 PM | Lunch (sponsored by ProQuest) |
| 1:00 - 1:45 PM | Group Picture |
| 1:45 - 2:45 PM | Lightning Talks Developing and Promoting Web Archives: The 2011 Egyptian Revolution Web Archive at AUC Benefits of Open Access and Open Educational Resources to Faculty Evaluating and Implementing EBSCO Discovery Service Using PRIMO in Creating NALIS Union Catalog: The Gateway to Bulgarian Academic Libraries Ghada Daniel Lecture Hall BB903 — Business Building (Ground floor) |
| 2:45 - 3:30 PM | Interest Groups Group A: Ghada Daniel Lecture Hall BB903 — Business Building (Ground floor) Group B: Room 805 — Riyad Nassar Library fl. 8 Group C: Room 806 — Riyad Nassar Library fl. 8 Group D: Room 807 — Riyad Nassar Library fl. 8 |
| 3:30 - 3:45 PM | Coffee Break (sponsored by HP) |
| 3:45 - 4:00 PM | Interest Groups Report Back Convener: Bughdana Hajjar Ghada Daniel Lecture Hall BB903 — Business Building (Ground floor) |
| 4:00 - 5:00 PM | Vendor Presentations (concurrent) Track 1: e-Book Platforms Track 2: Web-scale Library Management Systems |
| 5:00 PM | End of Day 3 |
| 8:00 - 10:00 PM | Dinner (Sponsored By Elsevier) |
Day 4: Saturday 30 April
| 8:30 AM | Buses Leave for Byblos from Le Commodore |
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| 9:30 - 9:40 AM | Arrival to LAU Byblos Campus |
| 9:40 - 10:00 AM | Coffee Break (sponsored by OUP) |
| 10:00 - 10:50 AM | Library Collections for a Radically Different Future Convenor: Jeff Gima Keynote Speaker: Rick Anderson Dunia & Naji Boulos Auditorium, Science Building (Room 402) |
| 10:50 - 11:00 AM | Break |
| 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM | Learning from Our Students: What They Can Teach Us About Our Library Spaces, Services, and Their Research Practices Moderator: Marie-Therese Mitri Speakers: Nancy Foster, Elisabetta Morani, Sania Battalova, Martha Speirs, Benson Ali, Isabella Clough Marinaro, Peg Peoples, Livia Piotto, Kimberly Sims Dunia & Naji Boulos Auditorium, Science Building (Room 402) |
| 12:15 - 1:15 PM | Lunch (sponsored by HP) |
| 1:15 - 2:00 PM | Lightning Talks (Theme: Users and e-Content - Teaching/Learning) Teaching e-Primary Sources Reference and Instruction Services Beyond the Library Catalog and Webpage: The AUB Experience Information Literacy in a Library 2.0 World: Enhancing Collaboration and User-Driven Access Dunia & Naji Boulos Auditorium, Science Building (Room 402) |
| 2:00 - 2:50 PM | Interest Groups Group A: Dunia & Naji Boulos Auditorium, Science Building (Room 402) Group B: Classroom 403 Group C: Classroom 404 Group D: Classroom 405 |
| 2:50 - 3:20 PM | Interest Groups Report Back Convenor: Caline Trad Dunia & Naji Boulos Auditorium, Science Building (Room 402) |
| 3:20: 3:30 PM | Wrap-Up Session Speaker: Jeff Gima Dunia & Naji Boulos Auditorium, Science Building (Room 402) |
| 3:30 PM | End of Conference |
| 4:00 PM | Buses Leave for Byblos City |
| 4:30 - 7:00 PM | Various Tours around Byblos City (Sponsored by Byblos Municipality) |
| 7:30 PM | Buses Leave for Restaurant |
| 8:00 - 10:00 PM | Dinner in Byblos (sponsored by EBSCO) |
| 11:00 PM | Arrival to Beirut |