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Internationalization continues to gain traction among US colleges and universities as overseas branch campuses now dot the globe alongside an established and growing group of independent American-modeled institutions of higher education, some founded as early as the 19th century. As higher education and the academic library environment evolves, librarians at many of these independent institutions are identifying priorities that include not only collaborating with educational stakeholders, enhancing teaching and learning, and connecting to the institution’s mission, but also positioning themselves as active and creative partners in increasingly digital learning and scholarship. An international environment is both a challenge and an opportunity for these priorities.
Library Partnerships in International Liberal Arts Education explores these challenges and opportunities through perspectives that are inherently international and intercultural because of the authors’ own backgrounds, and in particular because of their institutional environments. The authors are librarians, faculty, and technologists at institutions that belong to the AMICAL Consortium, a consortium of American-modeled international liberal arts institutions working together on common goals for libraries, technology, and learning. The chapters describe library-anchored collaborations that demonstrate struggles, but also successes and rich possibilities, in these thoroughly international—and increasingly digital—liberal arts institutions. They provide cumulative knowledge, reference points, and aspirational targets for planning future library-related collaborations in similar environments.
While a fascinating look at new collaborative roles and digitally focused priority areas for academic librarians as they are being addressed within AMICAL’s membership, the compelling ideas arising from these intercultural contexts have broad application and introduce opportunities to engage in international collaboration with the members of this unique consortium.
Foreword
Celeste Schenck
Introduction
Jeff Hiroshi Gima and Kara Malenfant
Chapter 1. Researching Rome: The Librarian as Research Mediator
Livia Piotto
Chapter 2. The Digital Humanities in the Global Liberal Arts: Discovery and Collaboration
Laurence Amoureux, Elizabeth Kinne, and Everett Robinson
Chapter 3. Embedding Information Literacy into a Humanities Course Using the ACRL Framework as a Guide: A Faculty-Librarian Collaboration Model
Aziz El Hassani
Chapter 4. Changing a Teaching Culture in an International University Context: Introducing English and Research Competencies for the Price of a Cup of Coffee
Dr. Tara Keenan, Dr. Manlio Perugini, and Dr. Seth N. Jaffe
Chapter 5. Partnering for Transformation: Strategically Adopting a Collaborative Library-Faculty Mind Set
Jyldyz Bekbalaeva
Chapter 6. Partnering for Egyptian Heritage Oral History: Internal and External Collaborations Pursued by the Archives
Stephen Urgola
Chapter 7. A Collaboration through Three Digital Humanities Projects: Challenges and Perspectives
Mariette Atallah and Elie Kahale
Chapter 8. Digital Humanities and the Preservation of Cultural Heritage: Opportunities and Challenges
Abdelaziz Galal
Chapter 9. One-World Classroom: Designs for Global Learning across the AMICAL Network
Dr. Tamo Chattopadhay and Maya Sharsheeva
Chapter 10. Libraries and Collaborative Capacity Building for International Digital Liberal Arts
Jeff Hiroshi Gima
About the Authors