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2016 CARL Board of Directors Elections

Congratulations to Ms. Gwen Bird (Simon Fraser University) and to Ms. Vivian Lewis (McMaster University) on their election to the CARL Board of Directors. Their terms of office will be […]

CARL issues new position paper: Canadian Universities and Sustainable Publishing

February 25, 2016. – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has issued a new position paper, Canadian Universities and Sustainable Publishing, authored by Martha Whitehead and Brian Owen. The […]

Canadian Libraries’ Response to Chapter 18 of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

                           The Canadian Library Association, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, and the Canadian Urban Libraries Council have jointly […]

CARL Member Libraries Celebrate Fair Dealing Week

February 22-26 is Fair Use / Fair Dealing Week. To mark this event, CARL member libraries have planned various activities and initiatives to increase their campus communities’ understanding of the […]

Falling Canadian dollar raises longstanding issue of journal costs

OTTAWA, February 3, 2016 – Research libraries in universities across the country are experiencing severe budget pressures owing to the weakening Canadian dollar combined with the extraordinarily high costs of […]

Compute Canada and CARL Join Forces to Build a National Research Data Platform

EDMONTON, ALBERTA, January 27, 2016 — Compute Canada and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) announced today that they will collaborate to build a scalable national platform for research […]