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The CAPAL/ACBAP Membership Committee is putting out a call for a Committee Chair, to serve a two-year term (2018-2020). The Membership Committee launched the CAPAL Directory in 2017 and is now looking toward developing new benefits and incentives for our membership. As the Chair of the Membership Committee, responsibilities include: Lead monthly meetings of the […]

The identity of academic librarians as researchers is evolving. Engagement in research is increasingly becoming a professional expectation, leading to greater attention placed on the development and promotion of librarians as scholars. Within this context is a confusing mixture of circumstances. In some Canadian academic institutions, research and scholarship is an expectation for librarians’ tenure […]

Message from the CAPAL/ACBAP chair Dear CAPAL/ACBAP colleagues: Several months ago, the CAPAL/ACBAP board selected an area of focus for this academic year: to assist our members to more fully understand and inhabit their roles, responsibilities, and rights as academic staff. As one means to advance this goal, we will be offering a webinar on […]

CAPAL/ACBAP Open Letter to Mount Allison University January 19, 2018 Re: De-professionalization in Library Leadership The Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians / l’Association canadienne des bibliothécaires académiques professionnels (CAPAL/ACBAP) is concerned that recent strategic decisions in Canada’s post-secondary institutions threaten to undermine the academic purpose, function and professional autonomy of Canada’s academic libraries. Despite […]

The CAPAL Board has pledged its support and signed petition e-1090, a petition before the House of Commons that “[calls] upon the Government of Canada to immediately begin the process of turning over all historical documents to LAC; reform the ATI and Library and Archives Canada Act to ensure historical material does not remain hidden […]