2013/04/08
by Francis • CAPAL News, Uncategorized • Tags: Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, freedom of expression, Library and Archives Canada (LAC)
A joint public statement by the Association des archivistes du Québec, the Association of Canadian Archivists, and the Canadian Council of Archives issued a public statement protesting the new “Code […]
2013/04/06
by Francis • CAPAL News, Uncategorized • Tags: Academic librarianship, diversity, racism, survey
One of the issues that members of the CAPAL Steering Committee have discussed and the CAPAL membership-at-large have noted as important, is the issue of ethnic diversity in academic libraries […]
2013/04/04
by Francis • CAPAL News, Uncategorized • Tags: Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Intellectual Freedom, Library and Archives Canada (LAC), opinion
In January 2013, Library and Archives Canada released to considerable debate and concern a Code of Conduct: Ethics and Values for its employees. The Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians […]
2013/04/02
by Francis • CAPAL News, Uncategorized • Tags: Academic librarianship, communications, website
Today we launched a Resource Page on the CAPAL website. It’s at http://capalibrarians.org/resources (or click “Resources” on the top menu). There are links to issues in academic librarianship such as research […]
2013/04/09
Access Copyright Legal Action
by Francis • CAPAL News, Uncategorized • Tags: Access Copyright, CAUT, York University
The Steering Committee of CAPAL is troubled to learn that Access Copyright is taking legal action against a number of institutions which it claims “copy -and promote the copying – […]