Below are the abstracts and presentation materials from the CAPAL21 conference.
The conference was held online from May 19 to 21, 2021.
The CAPAL21 conference program is at: http://capalibrarians.org/archive/conferences/2021/CAPAL21Program.pdf
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| Session | Presenter(s) | Chair(s) | Title | Description from Program | Presentation Materials and Papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0A | Dalton, Randy Foor | Koltutsky, Laura | CAPAL21 Keynote | Description | |
| 1A | Seigel, Adam | Craig, Romany | The Research Library as Colonial Power: Control, Resistance, and Bibliographic Ideology | Description | |
| 1B | Berroteran, Jeanine | Craig, Romany | Confronting History and Facing Reality: The Role of Lifelong Learning in Decolonizing Cataloguing and Name Authority Control | Description | |
| 1C | Popowich, Sam | Craig, Romany | What do we mean by "structural" oppression? Social Structure, Individual Agency, and Approaches to EDI | Description | Paper |
| 2A | Goodwin, Gavin | Hatch, Kelly | Classifying diversity: Composer identities and the composer diversity database | Description | Paper ; Slides |
| 2B | Henninger, Ean | Hatch, Kelly | Not Separate and Not Equal: Linguistic Justice in Academic Libraries | Description | Notes ; Script ; Slides |
| 2C | Isbister, Christian | Hatch, Kelly | Indian in the Metadata: Unpacking Student Relationships with Terminology in Library of Congress Subject Headings | Description | |
| 3.0 | Research and Scholarship Committee | Lavender, Graham ; Michelle Goodridge | Research Mentoring Program | Description | Slides ; Web Page |
| 3A | Li, Yanli ; Maha Kumaran ; Allan Cho ; Valentina Ly ; Suzanne Fernando ; Michael David Miller | Hector, Emily | Racism in Academic Libraries: Preliminary Findings from the 2021 ViMLoC Redux Survey | Description | Slides |
| 3B | Buschert, Kim ; Sajni Lacey | Hector, Emily | Interrogating EDI: An exploration of white supremacy in libraries using a reflective learning approach | Description | Slides |
| 3C | Eva, Nicole ; Mê-Linh Lê ; John Sheriff | Hector, Emily | Less money, less children, and less prestige: Differences between male and female academic librarians | Description | Slides |
| 4A | Adler, Melissa ; Marnie James ; Greg Nightingale | Greenshields, Mary | Desire in Sight: The Aesthetics of Knowledge Organization | Description | |
| 5.0 | Information Literacy Community of Practice | Greenshields, Mary | Conversations on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Information Literacy Instruction | Description | Slides |
| 5A | Wade, Carrie | Paterson, Amy | Harm Done: Dismantling the Colonial & Anti-Black Structures of Medical Research | Description | |
| 5B | Selman, Brianne | Paterson, Amy | Millennium4All One Year (+) On: Fighting Securitization of Libraries & Skill (& Lack) Sharing | Description | Slides |
| 5C | Ganjavi, Madhi | Paterson, Amy | Imperialist Knowledge Production: The United States and the School and Rural Library Development in Asia | Description | |
| 6A | Mahetaji, Kaushar ; Amanda Yang | Gavaris, Eva | Smart Libraries: A Smart Decision? | Description | References ; Slides |
| 6B | Kuntz, Blaire | Gavaris, Eva | Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, technological colonialism and the dystopian future for academic libraries | Description | Slides |
| 6C | VanderSchans, Arielle ; Sarah Cornwell ; Alex Mayhew | Gavaris, Eva | Alternative Scholarship Through Role-Playing Games | Description | Game Deck ; Slides |
| 7A | Tellis, Cecilia ; Michelle Brown ; Megan McMeekin ; Lisl Schoner-Saunders ; Julia Wells | Moffatt, Christine | What can "inclusion work" in academic libraries look like? A glimpse into three distinct roles | Description | Notes |