CAPAL Conference 2014 – Programme

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SHIFTING LANDSCAPES:
EXPLORING THE BOUNDARIES OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIANSHIP
CAPAL/ACBAP Annual Meeting – May 25-26, 2014

CAPAL is currently organizing its first annual conference and next annual membership meeting. This page will be updated with the latest information as it is available. MARK YOUR CALENDARS to May 25 -26, 2014.

We are pleased to present the preliminary programme for the Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (CAPAL)/ L’Association canadienne des bibliothécaires académiques professionnels (ACBAP) 2014 inaugural conference. We invite you to join us as we explore the shifting landscapes of academic librarianship.

Day 1 – May 25, 2014
8:00 – 8:30 Registration
8:30 – 9:00 CONFERENCE OPENING

9:00 – 10:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Dr. Roma Harris, Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario
10:00 – 10:15 Break

10:15 – 11:45   EXPLORING ACADEMIC LIBRARIANSHIP IN A NEOLIBERAL AGE
Session 1A (concurrent)

“Intellectual Freedom in a Postmodern and Neoliberal Age: New Librarian Roles”
Dr. John Buschman (Dean of University Libraries, Seaton Hall University)
“Academic Freedom, Shared Governance and the Role of Post-Secondary Education”
Laura Koltutsky (Liaison Librarian, Psychology, Social Work & Sociology, University of Calgary)
“Peering into the Gap: An Exploration of Technical Services Outsourcing and the Library Profession”
Christina Zoricic, Leanne Olson (Metadata Management Librarians, Western University)

10:15 – 11:45   LIBRARIANS AS MEDIATORS IN ACADEMIC COMMUNITIES
Session 1B (concurrent)

“Academic Libraries and the Shakespeare Authorship Debate”
Michael Dudley (Indigenous and Urban Services Librarian, University of Winnipeg)
“Navigating a Shifting Copyright Landscape”
Robert Glushko (Scholarly Communications and Copyright Librarian, University of Toronto)
“Uneasy Bedfellows or Kindred Spirits: Librarians, Archivists, and the Management of Special Collections in Academic Libraries”
Michael Moir (University Archivist and Head, Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections, York University)

11:45 – 12:45   Lunch Break

12:45 – 1: 45   KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Mark A. Puente, Director of Diversity and Leadership Programs, Association of Research Libraries

2:00 – 3:30   UNSETTLING ORTHODOXIES IN LIS
Session 2A (concurrent)

“Crossing Academic Boundaries: Libraries and the Interdisciplines in the Social Sciences and Humanities”
Dr. Melissa Adler (Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, University of Kentucky)
“Why „Diversity‟ Is Not Enough: Towards an Anti-Racist Politics of LIS”
Dave Hudson (Learning & Curriculum Support Librarian, University of Guelph)
“Information as a Problem for Human Freedom: Jacques Ellul‟s Contribution to Library Science”
Lisa Richmond (College Librarian, Wheaton College)

2:00 – 3:30   LIAISON LIBRARIANSHIP: PERSPECTIVES ON EMERGING ROLES
Session 2B (concurrent)

Kathleen McMorrow (Librarian, retired, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto), Sean Luyk (Music Librarian, University of Alberta) Timothy Neufeldt (Music Librarian/Lecturer, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto), Janneka Guise (Head, Eckhardt-Gramatté Music Library, University of Manitoba), William Poluha (Liaison Librarian, Science and Technology Library, University of Manitoba)

3:30 – 3:45   Break

3:45 – 4:45   LIBRARIANS AND RESEARCH PRACTICE: DIFFERING ROLES
Session 3A (concurrent)

“Permeating the Porous Boundaries between Librarians and Faculty Research”
Barbara Brydges (Head, Doucette Library of Teaching Resources, University of Calgary), Kim Clarke (Head, Bennett Jones Law Library, University of Calgary)
“Autoethnography as a Research Methodology for Librarians”
Justine Wheeler (Head, Business Library/Downtown Campus Library, University of Calgary), Dr. Margaret Patterson (Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary)

3:45 – 4:45   POWER AND DISCOURSE IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIANSHIP
Session 3B (concurrent)

“#saveLAC: Information Workers, Digital Activism and Discourses of Resistance”
Cecile Farnum (Communications and Liaison Librarian, Ryerson University Library and Archives)
“Is the Sky Actually Falling: A Critical Comparative Examination of Contemporary Discourses in Academic Librarianship”
Kristin Hoffmann (Head, Research & Instructional Services, D. B. Weldon Library, University of Western Ontario)

5:00 – 6:00   ALL CONGRESS PRESIDENT‟S RECEPTION

Day 2 – May 26, 2014

8:30 – 9:00   Registration

9:00 – 10:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Dr. Stephen Bales, Assistant Professor & Humanities and Social Sciences Librarian, Texas A&M University Libraries

10:00 – 10:15   Break

10:15 – 11:45   EXPLORING CAREER TRAJECTORIES
Session 4A (concurrent)

“Recently Graduated and Newly Hired: Making the Transition from Student to Academic Librarian”
Catherine McGoveran (Bibliothécaire spécialisée en information gouvernementale / Government Information Librarian, Bibliothèque Morisset Library, Université d’Ottawa / University of Ottawa), Laura Thorne (Learning Services Librarian [Research], University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus)
“Professional Practice in a Shifting Landscape: Goal Setting and Self-Assessment”
Andrea Cameron (Assistant Head/Liaison Librarian, Business and Criminology, Fraser Library, Simon Fraser University), Ania Dymarz (Life Sciences Liaison Librarian, Simon Fraser University Library)
“Returning to the Ranks: Towards an Holistic Career Path in Academic Librarianship”
Mike Ridley (Librarian & Instructor, University of Guelph)

10:15 – 11:45   EMPOWERING USER COMMUNITIES
Session 4B (concurrent)

“Internationalization and the Canadian Academic Library: What Are We Offering?”
Jeannie Bail (Information Services Librarian, Memorial University), Ryan Lewis (Social Sciences Liaison Librarian, Memorial University), Amanda Power (Information Services Librarian, Memorial University)
“Support and Working with the Aboriginal Community at the University of Manitoba”
Camille Callison (Indigenous Services Librarian, University of Manitoba)
“Exploring the Online Information Seeking Strategies of Education Graduate Students”
Dr. Wil Weston (Head of Collection Development, Library and Information Access, San Diego University)

12:00 – 1:30   ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING / Lunch break

2:00 – 3: 30   LIBRARIANS AS RESEARCHERS: CREATING A CULTURE OF RESEARCH
Session 5A (concurrent)

Carolyn Doi (Music and Education Librarian, University of Saskatchewan [Moderator]), Heidi Jacobs (CARL Librarians’ Research Institute / Information Literacy Librarian, University of Windsor), Virginia Wilson (Director, Center for Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, University of Saskatchewan), Mê-Linh Lê (Health Sciences Liaison Librarian, University of Manitoba)

2:00 – 3:30   DIGITAL CURATION: ARE WE FULFILLING OUR OBLIGATIONS TO FUTURE GENERATIONS? HOW DOES “DIGITAL CURATION” RELATE TO THE CURATORIAL PRACTICES EMPLOYED BY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARIES?
Session 5B (concurrent)
A special joint session sponsored by the Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (CAPAL) and the Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC)

3:30 – 3:45   Break

3:45 – 4:45    KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Dale Askey, Associate University Librarian, McMaster University & Administrative Director of the Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship

4:45 – 5:15    CONFERENCE CLOSING

 

OFFICIAL CONGRESS WEBSITE: http://congress2014.ca

CFP: Call for Papers (see below)

Keynote Speakers Announced

The Programme Planning Committee is pleased to announce the keynote speakers for the Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians’ (CAPAL) inaugural conference Shifting Landscapes: Exploring the Boundaries of Academic Librarianship to be held at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Brock University, May 25-26, 2014:

Dale Askey, Associate University Librarian at McMaster University & Administrative Director of the Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship
Dale Askey currently serves as an Associate University Librarian at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, where he also occupies the role of Administrative Director of the Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship. He has filled a wide range of roles in libraries, primarily in collection development, public services, Web services, and information technology management. After starting out in libraries and IT at Washington University in St. Louis, he embarked on his professional library career at the University of Utah, with subsequent stays at Yale University and Kansas State University before joining McMaster in 2011. In 2009-2010, he was a visiting professor in electronic publishing and multimedia at the University of Applied Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, teaching in their library science, publishing, and museum studies programs. His ongoing research project is to document the cultural manifestations of the German-speaking minority that remained in the Czech and Slovak Republics after the 1946 expulsion decrees. He publishes and speaks frequently in Germany on various topics from the North American library world, and is currently translating the standard work on German libraries into English for publication in 2014.

Dr. Stephen Bales, Assistant Professor and Humanities and Social Sciences Librarian at Texas A&M University Libraries
Stephen Bales is Assistant Professor and Humanities and Social Sciences Librarian at Texas A&M University Libraries in College Station, Texas where he works as subject specialist for philosophy, religion, anthropology, and communication & journalism. He holds both a Masters in Information Science and a Ph.D. in Communication & Information from the University of Tennessee. His current research interests include the history and philosophy of libraries and librarianship, librarians and professional identity, and the academic library as an ideological institution. Stephen has recently published articles on tenure and intellectual freedom, novice academic librarians’ perceptions of their profession, counter-hegemonic academic librarianship, and has a forthcoming book chapter considering the academic library as a “crypto-temple.” Considering successful academic librarians to be transformative public intellectuals, he is currently working on a monograph,The Dialectic of Academic Librarianship: A Critical Approach, to be published by Library Juice Press. The book will provide a materialist framework for understanding the effects of the academic library as a sociocultural force and will serve as an “ABC of transformative librarianship” for encouraging positive social change.

Dr. Roma Harris, Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario

Roma Harris is a Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at The University of Western Ontario. Known for her work on gender relations and technology in librarianship and for her studies of abused women’s search for information, Harris is the author of Librarianship: The Erosion of a Woman’s Profession (Ablex, 1992) and, with co-author Patricia Dewdney, Barriers to Information: How Formal Help Systems Fail Battered Women (Greenwood, 1994). Recently, Harris’ work has focused on health information behaviour. In addition to leading the ‘Rural HIV/AIDS Information Networks Project’, she is co-editor, with Nadine Wathen and Sally Wyatt, of the books Mediating Health Information: The Go-Betweens in a Changing Socio-Technical Landscape and Configuring Health Consumers Health Work and the Imperative of Personal Responsibility (Palgrave MacMillan, 2008, 2010) which explore the significant assumptions that underpin the idea of personal responsibility for health, consider how these assumptions attach to changing information technologies, and discuss their influence on emerging forms of health ’work’, especially the often invisible health-related work (including health-informing work) that is increasingly expected of lay citizens. Currently, she is working on two projects concerning the implications of organizational performance measurement and auditing practices on the shape and scope of work in publicly-supported services, including libraries and shelters for abused women.

Mark A. Puente, Director of Diversity and Leadership Programs, Association of Research Libraries   
Mark Puente directs all aspects of the Association of Research Libraries’ diversity recruitment and leadership development programs, and serves as the ARL staff liaison to the ARL Committee on Diversity and Leadership. Mark advises the ARL ClimateQUAL Team on diversity issues. He is also responsible for the ARL Career Resources and services, designs and directs the annual ARL Leadership Symposium, and leads the planning of the National Diversity in Libraries Conference (NDLC), offered biennially. Mark has been actively involved with diversity and leadership issues since the beginning of his library career. He was a 2003 ALA Spectrum Scholar and continues to be engaged in the coordination of and programming for the Spectrum Scholar Leadership Institute. He is also a graduate of the Minnesota Institute for Early Career Librarians (MIECL) and the Harvard/ACRL Leadership Institute. Mark’s research interests are centered on diversity and leadership issues, particularly in the context of academic/research libraries and performing arts librarianship. He has presented at regional and national conferences on topics such as networking, minority recruitment strategies, diversity and inclusion in the workplace, and residency programs in academic libraries.

For more information (including the Call for Papers) and ongoing updates about the 2014 Conference please see:
http://capalibrarians.org/2014-annual-conference/
http://congress2014.ca/
The deadline for proposals is November 22, 2013.

 

 

CFP: Call for Papers

CAPAL/ACBAP Annual Meeting – May 25-26, 2014

Borders Without Boundaries, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2014, Brock University

“Shifting Landscapes: Exploring the Boundaries of Academic Librarianship”

The boundaries of academic librarianship are shifting. At its inaugural conference the Programme Committee of the Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (CAPAL)/ L’Association canadienne des bibliothécaires académiques professionnels (ACBAP) is seeking to engage the community around key issues. We aim to create a program that will challenge current thinking about professional issues, promote the exchange of ideas and enhance communication among our members, and forge new relationships with other organizations that share our goals and values. We also aim to provide a venue to present research and scholarship.
THEME AND TOPICS
The conference theme “Shifting Landscapes: Exploring the Boundaries of Academic Librarianship” speaks to a desire to bring together challenging perspectives relating to academic librarians while acknowledging the core values of academic librarianship. The Programme Committee invites papers in English or French on any aspect of academic librarianship which address the Conference theme.  Potential topics for exploration around which participants might share ideas, knowledge, experience and research include (but need not be limited to) the following:

• Academic Freedom in a Litigious Age
• Emerging Areas of Research and Scholarship
• Advocacy and Mobilization
• Promoting Diversity, Equity and Social Justice
• Evolving Roles and Professional Identity

The Programme Committee invites proposals for individual papers as well as proposals for panel submissions of three papers. Papers should be approximately 20 minutes in length. We also welcome proposals for other session formats. For individual papers, please submit a 250-word abstract, a brief biographical statement, and your contact information. For complete panels, please submit a 250-word panel abstract as well as a list of all participants including brief biographical statements, and a separate 250-word abstract for each presenter. Please identify and provide participants’ contact information for the panel organizer. Please feel free to contact the Programme Committee to discuss a topic for a paper, panel or other session format.  Proposals and questions should be directed to Mary Kandiuk, Programme Chair, at: mkandiuk@yorku.ca.

Deadline for proposals: November 22, 2013.  http://congress2014.ca
Members of the Programme Committee: Juliya Borie, Jennifer Dekker, Dean Giustini, Dave Hudson, Leona Jacobs, Rhiannon Jones, Mary Kandiuk, Harriet Sonne de Torrens, Mark Weiler

 

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