Below are the abstracts, presentation slides and papers from the CAPAL 2015 conference.
The conference was held at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa ON, May 31 – June 2, 2015.
The CAPAL 2015 conference program is at: http://capalibrarians.org/archive/conferences/2015/CAPAL2015-Program.pdf
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Presentations from CAPAL 2015
| Session | Presenter(s) | Title | Abstract | Published item(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0A | Drabinski, Emily ; Heidi Jacobs ; Jessie Loyer | Plenary: On Critical Practice: Opening Reflections | Abstract | |
| 0B | Giroux, Henry | Keynote I: Disposable Futures: Neoliberalisms Assault on Higher Education | Abstract | |
| 0C | Roberts, Sarah T. | Keynote II: Digital Humanity: LIS Research, Practice, Politics and the Imperative to Act | Abstract | |
| 1A | McDonough, Beth | Critical Information Literacy in Practice: An Interpretive Review | Abstract | |
| 1A | Harris, Benjamin R. ; Anne Jumonville | Assessment is Dead, Long Live Assessment: Considering the Risks of Engaged Critical Pedagogy | Abstract | |
| 1A | Gray, LaVerne | Trusting the Process: Utilizing Critical Engaged Pedagogy in Information Literacy | Abstract | |
| 1B | Brook, Freeda | Whiteness, Diversity, and the Academic Library Workforce: An Anti-Racist Approach to Recruitment, Hiring, and Retention | Abstract | |
| 1B | Ellenwood, Dave | Unmasking Whiteness: An Anti-Racist Approach to Reference Services | Abstract | Slides |
| 1B | Schlesselman-Tarango, Gina | Critical Whiteness Studies for Academic Librarianship: Problems and Possibilities | Abstract | Slides |
| 1C | Hayman, Richard | Promoting Progressive Approaches to Open Access | Abstract | |
| 1C | Groover, Myron ; Allison Trumble | Policy, Politics, Porn: Implications of VPLs Public Internet Policy Debate for Intellectual Freedom and Critical Discourse in Libraries | Abstract | |
| 1C | Kaufman, Amy | (How) Do We Serve the Public? The Evolving Relationship between Academic Libraries and the Wider Community | Abstract | |
| 2A | Morrison, Kim | Emancipatory Pedagogy: Students Developing Agency and Academic Literacy Using AssetsBased HipHop Pedagogy & Critical Information Literacy | Abstract | |
| 2A | Keer, Gretchen | Information Literacy Instruction and Research Justice: A Case Study | Abstract | |
| 2A | Fenno-Smith, Kyzyl | Value and Validity in Information Literacy Theory and Praxis | Abstract | |
| 2B | Henk, Mandy | Corporate Control of the Professional Discourse and Implicatory Climate Denial: The Case of OCLC | Abstract | |
| 2B | Enright, Nathaniel F. | The Austerity of Literacy: The Financialization of Information and the Politics of Debt | Abstract | |
| 2B | Lilburn, Jeff | "Secrets are Lies:" Academic Libraries and the Corporate Control of Privacy in the Age of Commercial Social Media | Abstract | Paper |
| 2C | Thorne, Lydia | The Myth of Librarian Neutrality: Adobe Digital Editions and the Digital Rights "Movement" | Abstract | Slides |
| 2C | Gunn, Michael | Peer-to-Peer File Sharing as Users Rights Activism | Abstract | Slides |
| 2C | Barnes, Leslie ; Graeme Slaght | Librarianship as Repair: Text-Mining and Finding the Value in Fixing Stuff | Abstract | Slides |
| 3A | Forbes, Carrie | Using Critical Feminist Pedagogy to Reframe Information Literacy Sessions for Adult Female Students | Abstract | |
| 3A | McGinniss, Jeremy | Whats With All the Owls? Critical Pedagogy and Student Staff Development | Abstract | Paper |
| 3A | Harker, Yasmin Sokkar | "It Costs How Much?" Developing Student Critical Perspectives through a Discussion of Legal Information Costs | Abstract | Slides, Paper |
| 3B | Stoytcheva, Sveta | Steven Salaita and the Critical Importance of Context: Contingency and the ALA Code of Ethics | Abstract | |
| 3B | Johnson, Heidi | Foucault, the "Facts," and the Fiction of Neutrality: A Critique of Neutral Librarianship | Abstract | |
| 3B | Roberto, K.R. | You Cant Be Neutral on a Moving Booktruck: The Salaita Decision and What It Says About Academic Librarians | Abstract | Slides |
| 3C | Gerolami, Natasha | The Library Assemblage: Creative Institutions in an Information Society | Abstract | |
| 3C | Sahadath, Catelynne | Moving Technical Services Offsite: Impetus, Impact, and Attitudes | Abstract | |
| 3C | Clyde, Jerremie ; John Wright | The Bureaucratic Library: Agent for Change | Abstract | Slides |
| 3D | Royal Society of Canada (panel) | The Future Now: Canadas Libraries, Archives, and Public Memory | Abstract | |
| 4A | Lupien, Pascal | Knowledge as Power: Teaching Students to Think Critically about Information at University and Beyond | Abstract | |
| 4A | Smith, Lauren | "I Think the Only Time I Care about Politics, Is if It Affects Me or My Family. If It Doesn't, I Have No Reason to Care about It:" Exploring Young Peoples Political Agency and The Role Of Information Literacy from a Critical Pedagogical Perspective. | Abstract | |
| 4A | Nord, Martin | Information Literacy as Utopia? A Critical Evaluation of Information Literacys Emancipatory Potential | Abstract | Paper |
| 4B | Cope, Jonathan | The Labor of Informational Democracy: Towards an Analytical Framework for LIS | Abstract | Slides |
| 4B | Tkach, David | The Situatedness of the Seeker: Toward a Heideggerian "Model" of Information Seeking | Abstract | |
| 4C | Sundaram, Chantal | Academic Librarians at the Bargaining Table | Abstract | |
| 4C | Vela, Sarah | Learning from Others: The Risks of Deprofessionalization as Seen in Museums | Abstract | Paper |
| 4D | Andrews, Penny | The Invisible Problem and the Special Case | Abstract | |
| 4D | Meyer, Erin | The Library as Third Space: Agency, Appropriation, Ownership in a Learning Commons | Abstract | |
| 4D | Shockey, Kyle | Resisting Neoliberal Aurality in the Academic Library | Abstract | |
| 5A | Critten, Jessica | Death of the Authority: De-Centralizing "the Author" in Information Literacy Instruction | Abstract | |
| 5A | Trumble, Allison | New Approaches to Authority: Library Instruction for a Changing Publishing Landscape | Abstract | |
| 5B | Boyd, Melanie ; Ozouf Sénamin Amedegnato | On the Front Line? The Prevalence of War Metaphor in Academic Libraries | Abstract | |
| 5B | Waugh, Courtney | Neoliberal Language in Canadian Academic Library Strategic Plans: A Critical Discourse Analysis | Abstract | Paper |
| 5C | Montoya, Robert D. | The Classification of Digital Emergence: A Critical Examination of the Material Production of Digital Libraries within Special Collections and Archives | Abstract | |
| 5C | Smyth, Tom ; Joanne Paterson | Web Archiving as a Collection Development Tool | Abstract | |
| 6A | Beilin, Ian ; Anne E. Leonard | Empowering Students, Renewing Teaching: A Sustainable Approach to Critical Information Literacy | Abstract | Slides |
| 6A | Holden, Irina | Librarians for Sustainability: Notes from the Classroom about Designing and Implementing a Freshman Seminar Connecting the Concepts of Science Literacy and Sustainability | Abstract | Slides |
| 6A | Pashia, Angela | Information Literacy through the Lens of Ferguson | Abstract | |
| 6B | Kuntz, Blair | Stolen Memories: Israeli State Repression and Appropriation of Palestinian Cultural Memory | Abstract | Paper |
| 6B | Dudley, Michael | Decolonizing Shakespeare Collections in Academic Libraries | Abstract | |
| 6B | Wilson, Anna | Comparing Indigenous Approaches to Autism with Western Approaches to Autism | Abstract | Slides, Paper |
| 6C | Bufton, Martha Attridge ; Sarah Todd | Writing Our Way into Critical Practice: Using Letters to Reflect upon University Teaching and Information Literacy Instruction | Abstract | Slides |
| 6C | Baer, Andrea | Shushing Library Instructors? Speaking about the Social Structures behind Service Models & Cultivating Equal Teaching Partnerships | Abstract | |
| 6C | Weiler, Mark | Asking Critical Questions of the Education of Academic Librarians in Canada | Abstract | |
| 7A | Beatty, Joshua | Reading Freire for First World Librarians | Abstract | Paper |
| 7A | Seale, Maura | Enlightenment, Neoliberalism, and Information Literacy | Abstract | Paper |
| 7A | Beilin, Ian | Supporting and Resisting Student "Success:" A Consideration of the Means and Goals of Information Literacy Instruction in the Neoliberal Academic Library | Abstract | Slides, Paper |
| 7B | Green, Rosemary | The Language We Use to Describe Learners: An Exploratory Review | Abstract | Slides, Bibliography |
| 7B | Miller, Sara D. | The Formation of an Information Literate Learner: Toward Pedagogies to Address Ontological Obstacles in the Liminal Space | Abstract | Slides |
| 7B | Weston, Wil | Key to Success: How the Academic Library Supports Student Persistence | Abstract | Paper |
| 7C | Shamchuk, Lisa ; Norene James ; Katherine Koch ; Denis Laplante | Changing Professional Roles in Academic Libraries: Structures and Relationships | Abstract | Slides, Paper |
| 7C | Revitt, Eva ; Sean Luyk | Library Councils in Canadian Academic Libraries: Scanning the Literature | Abstract | Slides |
| 7D | Morrison, Heather ; Jihane Salhab | Approaches to Support for Open Access Publishing | Abstract | |
| 7D | Calvé-Genest, Alexis | Library and Information Practice from the Commons Perspective | Abstract |