The first article from Vol. 3 of the Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship is available online: “Consultants in Academic Libraries: Challenging, Renewing, and Extending the Dialogue,” an article by Marni R. Harrington and Ania Dymarz, is now available in the Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship at cjal.ca « Consultants in Academic Libraries: Challenging, Renewing, and Extending […]

As information professionals, academic librarians facilitate discovery of and access to a wide variety of information. Canadians have a right to public and government information as covered under the Access to Information Act (ATIA), which originally came into force in 1985. The Centre for Law and Democracy joined a global coalition of civil society organizations […]

CAPAL Community of Practice Description: The Education and Professional Development Committee is proud to offer you our first online Community of Practice. This COP will discuss issues related to Information Literacy and will largely be shaped by the participants. If this is a topic that you are passionate about, please consider signing up for the […]

The CAPAL17 conference abstracts are now available, including some select papers and presentations. Papers that have been uploaded include Michael Dudley’s “Seeing the Forest for the Trees on Mars: Rethinking the Ideology of the ‘Library of the Future’”, Samantha Schmel-Hines’ “Leadership Development for Academic Librarians: Maintaining the Status Quo?” and Jacob Vangeest’s “Towards an Ethics […]