The preliminary program for the CAPAL18-ACBAP18 conference is available now. A full conference program in both English and French will be available in the coming weeks. A reminder that the deadline for early bird registration is March 31st. Registration is available now on the Congress website – add CAPAL #304 in Section 3 of the […]

CAPAL Webinar on Academic Freedom With Dr. James L. Turk, Director of the Centre for Free Expression and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University Thursday, March 22, 2018 9am Pacific / 10am Mountain / 11am Central / 12noon Eastern / 1pm Atlantic / 1:30pm Newfoundland The webinar will last one hour and will be presented […]

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 […]