Below are the abstracts and presentation materials from the CAPAL22 conference.
The conference was held online from June 6 and 7, 2022.
The CAPAL22 conference schedule with links to abstracts is at: https://capalibrarians.org/archive/conferences/2022/www.cais-community.ca/event/capal-2022/index.html
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| Session | Presenter(s) | Title (linked to description) | YouTube recording | Slides |
| 0A | Loyer, Jessie | Opening Keynote | Opening Keynote | |
| 1A | Paterson, Amy McLay | "A drop in the bucket": Academic Librarian Wellness during COVID-19. | "A drop in the bucket": Academic librarian wellness during COVID-19 | Slides |
| 1A | Samokishyn, Marta ; Victoria Tsonos | Assessing the impact of students' engagement and mental health on academic integrity during COVID-19 pandemic | Assessing the impact of students' engagement and mental health on academic integrity | |
| 1B | Oud, Joanne | Disability and wellness: An equity caution for libraries | Disability and wellness: An equity caution for libraries | |
| 1B | Michell, Ben | Neurodivergent wellness as quality of life, community, and autonomy in academic libraries | Neurodivergent wellness as quality of life, community, and autonomy in academic libraries | Slides |
| 1C | Cotton, Justine ; Chelsea Humphries ; Laurie Morrison | Working well: Finding space for movement, self-care, and community at the Brock Library | Working well: Finding space for movement, self care, and community at the Brock Library | Slides |
| 1D | Tellis, Cecilia ; Fatoumata Bah ; Megan McMeekin | Beyond bath bombs: Wellness through community building and connection at uOttawa Library | Beyond bath bombs: Wellness through community building and connection at uOttawa Library | Slides |
| 1E | Casenas, Carolyn ; Melissa Smith | Talking books: Building community and supporting wellness | Talking books: Building community and supporting wellness | Slides |
| 1E | Lockwood, Kayla ; Bronwen Maxson | Creating a digital mindfulness resource guide for students | Creating a digital mindfulness resource guide for students | Slides |
| 1E | Goodridge, Michelle ; Graham Lavender | CAPAL R&S pilot project: Year one review | CAPAL Research and Scholarship Committee pilot project: Year one review | |
| 1F | Li, Savannah ; Kaushar Mahetaji ; Amanda Yang | The "new" moderators of wellness: Academic librarians in the platform age | The "new" moderators of wellness: Academic librarians in the platform age | |
| 1F | Kuni, Kayla | Where is wellness going? | Where is wellness going? | |
| 1F | Ivan, Laura | Building an emergency virtual reference service during lockdown: A case study on service design and staff support through crisis | Building an emergency virtual reference service during lockdown: A case study. | |
| 2G | Humphries, Chelsea | Library yoga: Experiences with virtual yoga programming at the Brock University Library | Library yoga: Experiences with virtual yoga programming at the Brock University Library | Slides |
| 2G | Greenshields, Mary ; Sandra Cowan | Thinking about compassion & love in academic libraries | Thinking about compassion and love in academic libraries | Slides |
| 2H | Fitzgibbons, Megan | Applying principles of mindfulness and embodiment in library instruction to foster wellness | CAPAL22- Applying principles of mindfulness and embodiment in library instruction to foster wellness | Slides |
| 2H | Guillory, Mary A. | Creative intervention centers: How campus makerspaces can be tweaked to combat the pandemic-induced mental health crisis | | Slides |
| 2I | Dymarz, Ania | Strategic planning: How does it make you feel? | | |
| 2I | Fuhr, Justin | Librarian in the mirror: Using reflection for professional and personal wellbeing | Librarian in the mirror: Using reflection for professional and personal wellbeing | Slides |
| 2I | Lenart, Bartlomiej | Philosophical musings on mental health and wellness in post-pandemic academic libraries | Philosophical musings on mental health and wellness in post-pandemic academic libraries | |
| 2J | Yates, Elizabeth | "It's a very straight space": gender-diverse students' narratives about the library | "It's a very straight space": Gender-diverse students' narratives about the library | |
| 2J | Plante, Hazel Jane | "I'm a girl, and I'm plural": Emergency meditations on pedagogy, mindfulness, layered identities, and libraries | | |
| 3A | Bowman, Max | Closing Keynote | Closing Keynote by Max Bowman | |