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
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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
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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