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Future-facing consortial roles: Communicating across institutions, Collaborating within them, and Focusing on local value. Jeff Hiroshi Gima Director, AMICAL Consortium The American University of Paris. 1. Easy Communication. Facebook. Why AMICAL needs good online communication. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Future-facing consortial roles: Communicating across institutions, Collaborating within them,
and Focusing on local value
Jeff Hiroshi GimaDirector, AMICAL Consortium
The American University of Paris
Where are our members (online)?2012 2013
Facebook 83% 87%
Twitter 42% 52%
Google+ 28% 38%
Reddit -- 4%
Flickr 28% 22%
LinkedIn 28% (probably undercounted significantly since respondents had to write this in “other”)
80%
Other (Pinterest, Course Networking, Diigo, Delicious, Instagram)
-- 7%
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AMICALconnect:Chat Live
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by Pink Sherbet Photography: http://flickr.com/photos/pinksherbet/4243127560
Lessons learned
• Assess existing online habits, and bridge with them
• Maximize cross-authentication and seamlessness between service platforms
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Communication: Make it easy (for your community)
to advance learning, teaching and research through the collaborative development of library and information services and curricular resources at member institutions
AMICAL’s mission:
Library silos
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by Brian Fuller: http://www.flickr.com/photos/birdwatcher63/5367727228/
AMICAL members attending the Annual Conference
Librarians - 50%
Faculty - 21%
IT managers/staff, instructional technologists - 19%
Academic administrators - 8%
Other (graduate student, IT library consultant) - 2%
Institutional mission
An example from an AMICAL institution:The mission of the American University in Bulgaria is to educate students of outstanding potential in a community of academic excellence, diversity, and respect ...
Key AMICAL program areas
• Staff and faculty development• Consortial purchasing of licensed resources
Key AMICAL program areas
• Staff and faculty development• Consortial purchasing of licensed resources• OCLC membership and services
Key AMICAL program areas
• Staff and faculty development• Consortial purchasing of licensed resources• OCLC membership and services• Support for collaborations in teaching and
learning
Be valuable to our institutions
ACRL:
“Develop library impact on student learning”http://www.acrl.ala.org/value
“What the world needs research libraries to do now…is provide broad and easy access to the intellectual content of rare and unique non-commodity documents that would otherwise remain unfindable and unusable”
Rick Anderson
Unique local resources
Focus on curating unique local digital materials:•Acquire•Digitize•Make discoverable
Unique local resources
Increasing need to focus on• non-commodity materialsbut also on• non-commodity services
Unique local resourcesof smaller libraries
Key AMICAL program areas
• Staff and faculty development• Consortial purchasing of licensed resources• OCLC membership and services• Support for collaborations in teaching and
learning
OCLC membership & services
• Web-scale library services
• Awareness of global library standards and practices
• Curating local materials