The CAPAL18 conference abstracts are now available, including some select papers and presentations. Papers that have been uploaded include Jennifer Dekker’s “Third Party Intervention in Collective Bargaining Disputes”, Paul Campbell’s “Narrowing the Scope: Transitioning from general librarianship to specialized subject librarians”, and Emily Carlisle and Roger Chabot’s “Just How Open is Open Access?”. Presentation slides […]

*La version française suit* It is time to start the work of organizing and planning CAPAL19! The Congress 2019 theme is “Circles of Conversation.” As with past conferences, CAPAL19 will be held in conjunction with the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, hosted by University of British Columbia in Vancouver, 2019 June 1-7. CAPAL19 will […]

Two new book reviews are now available in the Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship. Nailisa Tanner review of Lawrence Busch’s Knowledge for Sale: The Neoliberal Takeover of Higher Education highlights particular areas of interest in the book to librarians, such as data on citation practices/journal prestige. Siham Alaoui’s review of Brunot Bachimont’s Patrimoine et numérique […]

The latest issue of CAPAL Connections is available now. In this issue, read a report from the board, hear about what has been happening with each of CAPAL’s Committees, and learn more about the CAPAL18 dine around. The newsletter is available in both English and French here: English: http://capalibrarians.org/newsletter/ French: http://fr.capalibrarians.org/bulletin/ A big thanks to all the […]