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Conference Program
“The Learner's Perspective – Adapting Information Services for Today's Students” |
| Day 1 st, Thursday, May 21, 2009 |
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8:30 |
Breakfast
Bus from hotel to AUA
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9:00 - 10:00 |
Registration at
AUA Alex and Marie Manoogian Hall |
10:00 - 10:15 |
Welcome and Opening |
10:15 - 11:30 |
Keynote Speaker: Nancy Fried Foster
Using ethnographic methods to understand today's undergrads:
methods and findings
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11:30 - 12:00 |
Coffee Break, Photo slide show |
12:00 - 1:00
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Panel presentation and discussion:
Information Literacy: local approaches to information literacy, adaptation to study/research habits of today's students.
Moderator: Daphne Flanagan
Panelists:
-Rebecca Carter, AUA
-Jayme Spencer, AUC
-Kathy Ray, AUS
-Elisabetta Morani, John Cabot University
-Martha Speirs, AUN
Questions and Answers to the panelists |
1:00 - 2:00 |
Lunch Buffet (location: AUA Cafeteria) |
2:00 - 3:00 |
Information Literacy Panel (continuation) |
3:00 – 3:45 |
Coffee Break,
Tour of Paramaz Avedisian Building
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3:45 - 5:00
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General session: Reports on AMICAL activities:
-Jeff Gima, AMICAL Administrator
-Casey Grimmer, AUC
-Jayme Spencer, AUC
-Sania Battalova, AUCA
-Nigel Butterwick, FC
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| 5:00 - 5:45 |
Polycom presentation by Alain Civel |
| 5:45 - 6:30 |
AMICAL Member Council |
7:00 - 10:00 |
Dinner at Arvasar restaurant |
| Day 2 nd, Friday, May 22, 2009 |
8:30 |
Bus from hotel to AUA |
9:00 - 10:30 |
General session:
-James Simon: A day in the life of today's student and professor using web tools to access and use information resources.
- Nancy Foster: A day in the life of a College Student. |
10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
11:00 - 1:30
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Visit to Matenadaran ( Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts) with a tour.
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1:30 - 2:30 |
Working lunch and discussions of Professional Development (location: AUA Cafeteria) |
2:30 - 3:30 |
Deans' panel presentations on Characterizing our students
Moderator: Susan Perry
Panelists:
-Lucig Danielian, AUA
-Celeste Schenck, AUP
-John Mosbo, AUS
-Liviu Matei, CEU
-Peter Boyd, AUK
- Ouaouicha Driss, AUI
Questions and Answers |
3:30 – 4:00 |
Coffee Break |
4:00 - 4:30 |
Deans' panel presentations (continuation) |
4:30 - 5:00 |
Hold a raffle drawing |
5:00 -7:30
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Visit to Armenian Cognac Factory
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| 7:30 - 10:00 |
Dinner at “Ararat” hotel with the Armenian Classical Music |
| Day 3 rd, Saturday, May 23, 2009 |
8:30 |
Bus from hotel to AUA |
9:00 - 10:00 |
General session
-James Simon: Web portal to support students' information resource needs -- a big picture view |
| 10:00 - 10:40 |
General session:
-Billiana Alexandrova, GMU: Open access – ten years after. How can we benefit it in the times of financial crises? |
10:40 - 11:00 |
Coffee Breaks |
11:00 - 11:45 |
General session:
-Sam Sayer: OCLC consortial services |
11:45 - 12:30 |
Concurrent meetings: Group session 1
-Instruction & Information Literacy, Room # 214W
- RESPOND - priorities and planning for OCLC services at AMICAL institutions,
Room # 315E
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12:30 - 1:30 |
Lunch Buffet (location: AUA Cafeteria) |
1:30 - 2.15 |
Concurrent meetings: Group session 2
-E-resources/Databases - strategies and collection priorities for consortial negotiations with vendors, Room # 214W
-Faculty and curricular collaboration; Room #315E
-IT issues - common problems, potential areas of collaboration, Room #113W
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2:15 - 3:00 |
Wrap up with 5 min reports from each group, and closing |
3:00 - 3:15
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Photo taking in front of AUA building |
3:20 - 7:30 |
Trip to Garni temple and “Monastery in Cave” Geghard monastery complex |
7:30 - 10:00 |
Dinner with AAICU members at Bellagio restaurant |
| Day 4 th , Sunday, May 24, 2009 |
Post- conference workshop and a session with AAICU |
9:00 |
Bus from hotel to AUA |
9:30 - 11:00 |
Post-conference workshop, Computer Lab 9D
-Matt Goldner, OCLC: Next-generation catalogs and discovery layers: user-centered interfaces… for better searching -- and better finding. |
11:00 - 12:00 |
Coffee Break |
12:00 - 1:00 |
Post-conference workshop (continuation), Computer Lab 9D |
1:00 - 2:00 |
Lunch (location: AUA Cafeteria) |
2:00 - 4:00 |
Joint AMICAL – AAICU meeting, Alex and Marie Manoogian Hall |
| 4:00 |
Coffee Break |
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