Dear Colleagues,   The Conference Organizing Committee is seeking convenors for its sessions at the CAPAL19 Conference, June 2-4, 2019 at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.   Session convenors are vital to the success of the conference and your name and affiliation will be included in the conference program. It is a great opportunity […]

On behalf of the CAPAL19 Conference Organizing Committee, I am pleased to present the full conference program available now: https://conference.capalibrarians.org/main More details about conference related social activities will be available in the coming weeks. A calendar of open events at Congress is available here: https://www.congress2019.ca/calendar Still need to register? Head over to the conference page […]

CAPAL’s election for the board of directors is coming!   Three members are have put their names forward for the board (bios below):   Mary Greenshields (University of Alberta) Kevin Tanner (Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)) Dom Taylor (University of Manitoba)   These members will fill the three vacancies being left by outgoing members […]

Between July 11 and September 16, 2018, the Canadian Association of Academic Librarians (CAPAL) conducted Canada’s second census of academic librarians. The census initiative received 920 responses. On behalf of CAPAL, the Census Project Team is pleased to share the 2018 Census of Canadian Academic Librarians User Guide and Results Summary report. The report is […]

March’s member profile is with Kristin Hoffmann. Kristin is a Research and Scholarly Communications Librarian at Western University in London, Ontario, and an editor of CAPAL’s Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship (CJAL). Tell us about something you’re passionate about outside of work. The London Community Orchestra is one of the hidden gems in London, Ontario. […]