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Jeff Hiroshi Gima Director, AMICAL Consortium The American University of Paris

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.

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Jeff Hiroshi Gima Director, AMICAL Consortium The American University of Paris

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  1. 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

  2. 1. Easy Communication

  3. Facebook

  4. Why AMICAL needs good online communication

  5. Where are our members (online)?

  6. Email cc licensed (BY-NC-ND) flickrphotos by baking_in_pearls:http://www.flickr.com/photos/baking_in_pearls/500406685/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/baking_in_pearls/500406771/

  7. Wiki

  8. Wiki

  9. Custom social network: AMICALconnect

  10. AMICALconnect: Find People

  11. AMICALconnect:Chat Live cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by Pink Sherbet Photography: http://flickr.com/photos/pinksherbet/4243127560

  12. AMICALconnect: Join and create groups

  13. AMICALconnect: Publicize events

  14. AMICALconnect: Organize information about consortial progams

  15. AMICAList

  16. AMICALconnect

  17. Integrating social media

  18. Integrating social media

  19. Crowd-sourcing ideas

  20. http://www.campaignmonitor.com/ User-centered support and knowledgebases

  21. Lessons learned • Assess existing online habits, and bridge with them • Maximize cross-authentication and seamlessness between service platforms

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  23. Communication: Make it easy (for your community) cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo by spackletoehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/spackletoe/90811910

  24. 2. Institutional Mission

  25. AMICAL’s mission: to advance learning, teaching and research through the collaborative development of library and information services and curricular resources at member institutions

  26. Who participates in AMICAL?

  27. AMICAL members

  28. Who participates in AMICAL?

  29. Library silos cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by Brian Fuller: http://www.flickr.com/photos/birdwatcher63/5367727228/

  30. 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 ...

  31. Key AMICAL program areas • Staff and faculty development

  32. Key AMICAL program areas • Staff and faculty development • Consortial purchasing of licensed resources

  33. Key AMICAL program areas • Staff and faculty development • Consortial purchasing of licensed resources • OCLC membership and services

  34. Key AMICAL program areas • Staff and faculty development • Consortial purchasing of licensed resources • OCLC membership and services • Support for collaborations in teaching and learning

  35. Why focus on teaching and learning?

  36. Be valuable to our institutions ACRL: “Develop library impact on student learning” http://www.acrl.ala.org/value

  37. 3. Unique Local Resources

  38. Unique local resources http://bit.ly/19zNWMt

  39. Unique local resources “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

  40. Unique local resources • Focus on curating unique local digital materials: • Acquire • Digitize • Make discoverable

  41. Unique local resources of smaller libraries • Increasing need to focus on • non-commodity materials • but also on • non-commodity services

  42. Key AMICAL program areas • Staff and faculty development • Consortial purchasing of licensed resources • OCLC membership and services • Support for collaborations in teaching and learning

  43. OCLC membership & services • Web-scale library services • Awareness of global library standards and practices • Curating local materials

  44. Easy communication • Institutional mission • Unique local resources

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