The Education & Professional Development Committee promotes and supports Communities of Practice (COPs) to share information and experiences, increasing knowledge and awareness of timely and important issues in librarianship.
Please note that funding is available for COP projects. See our funding policy.
Current Communities of Practice include:
- Artificial Intelligence facilitated by Amanda Wheatley (amanda.wheatley@mcgill.ca)
- Climate Action contact: Michael Lines (mlines@uvic.ca)
- Data Visualization Co-facilitators: Alexandra Wong (wongalex@yorku.ca) and Subhanya Sivajothy (subhanya.sivajothy@mcmaster.ca)
- Digital Accessibility in Academic Libraries (DAAL), co-facilitated by Mark Weiler (mweiler@alumni.sfu.ca) and Aneta Kwak (aneta.kwak@utoronto.ca)
- Displays, Outreach and Engagement, facilitated by Anna Flak (flaka1@mcmaster.ca)
- Game-based Learning, facilitated by Martha Attridge Bufton (MarthaAttridgeBufton@cunet.carleton.ca)
- Information Literacy, coordinated by Helen Power (helen.power@usask.ca) and facilitated by Carol Leibiger (c.leibiger@usd.edu)
- The International Student Services Community of Practice, facilitated by Michael Dudley (m.dudley@uwinnipeg.ca)
- Research and Writing, facilitated by Lydia Zvyagintseva (lydiaz@ualberta.ca) and Margaret Hoogland (University of Toledo, hoogland.margaret@gmail.com)
- The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, coordinated by Kelly Keus (kelly.keus@keyano.ca) and facilitated by Sarah Brown (s24brown@waterloo.ca)
If interested in joining a Community of Practice, please contact the facilitator. If interested in creating a new Community of Practice, please review the Community of Practice Guidelines and contact the EPD Committee chair (helen.power@usask.ca).