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

1. Easy Communication

Facebook

Why AMICAL needs good online communication

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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Email

Wiki

Wiki

Custom social network: AMICALconnect

AMICALconnect: Find People

AMICALconnect:Chat Live

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AMICALconnect: Join and create groups

AMICALconnect: Publicize events

AMICALconnect: Organize information about consortial progams

AMICAList

AMICALconnect

Integrating social media

Integrating social media

Crowd-sourcing ideas

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/

User-centered support and knowledgebases

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)

2. Institutional Mission

to advance learning, teaching and research through the collaborative development of library and information services and curricular resources at member institutions

AMICAL’s mission:

Who participates in AMICAL?

AMICAL members

Who participates in AMICAL?

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

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

Why focus on teaching and learning?

Be valuable to our institutions

ACRL:

“Develop library impact on student learning”http://www.acrl.ala.org/value

3. Unique Local Resources

Unique local resources

http://bit.ly/19zNWMt

“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

1. Easy communication2. Institutional mission3. Unique local resources