Below are the abstracts, presentation slides and papers from the CAPAL 2017 conference.
The conference was held at Ryerson University, Toronto ON, May 29 – June 1, 2017.
The CAPAL 2017 conference program is at: http://capalibrarians.org/archive/conferences/2017/Program_CAPAL-ACBAP17.pdf
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Presentations from CAPAL 2017
| Session | Presenters | Title | Abstract | Published item(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1A | Bolan, John | Predictions of the Future of the Academic Library from Within and Without | Abstract | |
| 1A | Burkholder, Joel ; Jeremy McGinniss | Maintaining a Future: A Theory Toward Present Action and Future Thinking | Abstract | |
| 1A | Dudley, Michael | Seeing the Forest for the Trees on Mars: Rethinking the Ideology of the 'Library of the Future' | Abstract | |
| 1A | Dudley, Michael | Seeing the Forest for the Trees on Mars: Rethinking the Ideology of the 'Library of the Future' | Paper | |
| 1B | Aldrich, Alan W. ; Carol Leibiger | Measure Once, Analyze Twice: Putting Quantitative and Qualitative Data in Dialogue | Abstract | |
| 1B | Aldrich, Alan W. ; Carol Leibiger | Measure Once, Analyze Twice: Putting Quantitative and Qualitative Data in Dialogue | Slides | |
| 1B | Berg, Selinda ; Kristin Hoffmann ; Denise Koufogiannakis | Understanding Ourselves as Researchers: Critical Reflections on a National Survey | Abstract | |
| 1B | Revitt, Eva ; Amy Kaufman | The Story of Us: Putting the Who in the Canadian Academic Librarian | Abstract | |
| 2A | Eden, Brad | From 'Library' to 'Information' Science: The Challenge within Our Profession with Accreditation | Abstract | |
| 2A | Matteson, Miriam | Addressing the Elephant in the Room: An Examination of Soft Skills in Academic Librarianship | Abstract | |
| 2A | Ridley, Michael | Academic Librarians and the PhD | Abstract | |
| 2B | Gareau-Brennan, Céline | Marketing Sharing Mania: What Libraries Can Learn from the Collaborative Consumption Craze | Abstract | |
| 2B | Harrington, Marni ; Ania Dymarz | Consultants in Academic Libraries: Challenging, Renewing, and Extending the Dialogue | Abstract | |
| 2B | Nicholson, Karen | Critical Reflections: Exploring Narratives of Librarianship in the Corporate Research-Intensive University in Canada | Abstract | |
| 2C | Brayton, Spencer ; Natasha Casey | Critical Librarianship in Practice: A Case for Media and Information Literacy Instruction | Abstract | |
| 2C | Brayton, Spencer ; Natasha Casey | Critical Librarianship in Practice: A Case for Media and Information Literacy Instruction | Slides | |
| 2C | Bufton, Martha Attridge ; Aleksandra Blake ; Susan Tudin | Jump Start: Rethinking the Role of Academic Librarianship in Graduate Writing | Abstract | |
| 2C | Hill, Elizabeth ; Vince Gray | When You're Digging Up Data, How Dirty Do You Get Your Hands? | Abstract | |
| 3A | Cowan, Scott R. | Disassembling Neutrality: The Need for 'The Explicit' | Abstract | |
| 3A | Cowan, Scott R. | Disassembling Neutrality: The Need for 'The Explicit' | Slides | |
| 3A | Gerolami, Natasha | The Enchanted Academic Library: A Critique of the Neutral, Secular Library | Abstract | |
| 3A | Vangeest, Jacob | Towards an Ethics of Difference: The Pluralist Library | Abstract | |
| 3A | Vangeest, Jacob | Towards an Ethics of Difference: The Pluralist Library | Paper | |
| 3B | Paterson, Joanne ; Amy Buckland ; Lisa Quinn ; Peter Midgley ; Michael Sinatra ; Ann Ludbrook | Panel: Open Access and Non-Traditional Forms of Digital Scholarly Publication | Abstract | |
| 4A | Ludbrook, Ann ; Fangmin Wang ; Sally Wilson | Panel: Collaboratory Visioning: Creating Opportunities in the Academic Library | Abstract | |
| 4B | Adler, Kate | Building a Critical Anti-Poverty Reference Centre? | Abstract | |
| 4B | Beilin, Ian | Changing Spaces: Spatial Reorganization and the Nexus of Power in the Academic Library | Abstract | |
| 4B | Nicholson, Karen | Higher Education, Globalization and the Academic Library: On the Possibilities of a Human/Critical Geography Approach to LIS | Abstract | |
| 4C | Brown, Sarah ; Jackie Stapleton | Academic Librarians and Systematic Reviews: An Emerging Role in the Social Sciences | Abstract | |
| 4C | Brown, Sarah ; Jackie Stapleton | Academic Librarians and Systematic Reviews: An Emerging Role in the Social Sciences | Slides | |
| 4C | Ducas, Ada ; Nicole Michaud-Oystryk | Reinventing Ourselves: Benchmarking the New Roles of Librarians Working in Canada's Research-Intensive Universities | Abstract | |
| 4C | Murgu, Calin | Understanding Faculty Ambivalence to Alternative Scholarly Publishing | Abstract | |
| 5A | Levesque, Lisa | Material Culture Studies and Librarianship: Taking Objects Seriously | Abstract | |
| 5A | Levesque, Lisa | Material Culture Studies and Librarianship: Taking Objects Seriously | Slides | |
| 5A | Schlesselman-Tarango, Gina | How Cute! Race, Gender, and Neutralization in LIS | Abstract | |
| 5B | Antunez, Marilia ; Sean P. Kennedy | Impact of Career Mobility on Hiring Decisions for Academic Librarians | Abstract | |
| 5B | Antunez, Marilia ; Sean P. Kennedy | Impact of Career Mobility on Hiring Decisions for Academic Librarians | Slides | |
| 5B | Schmel-Hines, Samantha | Leadership Development for Academic Librarians: Maintaining the Status Quo? | Abstract | |
| 5B | Schmel-Hines, Samantha | Leadership Development for Academic Librarians: Maintaining the Status Quo? | Paper | |
| 5C | Cowan, Sandra | In Search of Library Philosophy | Abstract | |
| 5C | Kasten, Kathleen | Reading Libraries: Past Perspective Informs Future Practice in Humanities Libraries | Abstract | |
| 6A | Lilburn, Jeff | Sociopolitical Barriers to Information and Community Well Being: Implications for Librarian Teaching Practice | Abstract | |
| 6A | Miller, Michael David ; Urooj Nizami | Challenging University Hierarchies by Partnering with Student-Driven Journals: A Grassroots Approach | Abstract | |
| 6A | Stanfield, Andrea | Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going? A Review of Four and a Half Decades of Library Instruction Literature | Abstract | |
| 6A | Stanfield, Andrea | Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going? A Review of Four and a Half Decades of Library Instruction Literature | Slides | |
| 6B | Greenshields, Mary | Libraries and First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Peoples: Missed Connections? | Abstract | |
| 6B | Knight, F. Tim | Classification Bias: Channeling Sandy Berman | Abstract | |
| 6B | Weiler, Mark | Access to Information and the Advancement of Knowledge: Reflections on the 250th Anniversary of Freedom of Information Legislation | Abstract | |
| 6C | Buschman, John | Between Neoliberalism and Identity: Academic Librarianship and November 9, 2016 | Abstract | |
| 6C | Hudson, David James | On Cultural Competence in the Library World: Situating Anti-Racist Self Work as Neoliberal Racial Politics | Abstract | |
| 6C | Oud, Joanne | "I'm Not Sure if I Count": Academic Librarians with Disabilities in the Neoliberal Workplace | Abstract | |
| 7A | Baer, Andrea | News Literacy & Relativism in "Post-Truth" Moments: Emerging Pedagogical Strategies for Teaching about Contextual Authority | Abstract | |
| 7A | Knapp, Jeff | Fake News: Evaluating the News When We Can't Even Agree on Reality | Abstract | |
| 7A | Lupien, Pascal ; Lorna Rourke | Information and Reactionary Populism | Abstract | |
| 7B | Lee, Deborah ; Sara McDowell ; Darlene Ficher | Panel: Climbing The Mountain to Reconciliation in Academic Libraries: One Step at a Time | Abstract | |
| 8A | Nord, Martin | Using Social Epistemology to Understand Critical Information Literacy | Abstract | |
| 8A | Vong, Silvia | "Practice before You Preach": A Critical Reflection Model for Teaching Academic Librarians | Abstract | |
| 8A | Wade, Carrie | How Do You Pronounce Pedagogy? The Evolution of Critical Pedagogy and Praxis in Library Instruction | Abstract | |
| 8A | Wade, Carrie | How Do You Pronounce Pedagogy? The Evolution of Critical Pedagogy and Praxis in Library Instruction | Slides | |
| 8B | Leung, Sofia ; Vani Natarajan ; Eamon Tewell | Critical Library Practice and Higher Education: Locating Spaces of Agency and Resistance | Abstract | |
| 8C | Arlain, Mandissa ; Lisa Levesque ; Alison Skyrme | Transitions into Librarianship | Abstract |
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