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CAPAL16: BEYOND THE LIBRARY: AGENCY, PRACTICE, AND SOCIETY
Deadline for Proposals: Proposals must be received by 9:00 a.m. PST, Monday January 18th, 2016.
CAPAL/ACBAP Annual Conference – May 28–31, 2016
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2016
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta

The Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (CAPAL) invites participation in its annual conference, to be held as part of Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2016 at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (http://congress2016.ca/). (more…) Continue reading CAPAL16: Call for Proposals – Deadline Extended→

The Board of CAPAL has written to our new Heritage Minister, Mélanie Joly, expressing our concern that no mention of restoration of funding to Library and Archives Canada was made in the Minister of Canadian Heritage Mandate Letter. We expressed our interest in meeting with the Minister to discuss the impact of the cuts to LAC’s budget in recent years, and the importance of restoring this funding.

The full letter is here:
http://capalibrarians.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/CAPAL-Letter-Minister-of-Heritage-English.pdf Continue reading CAPAL Urges Minister Joly to Restore LAC Funding→

Please see updated info at: http://capalibrarians.org/2016/01/capal16-proposals-extended/