Mandate and Role
The Teaching and Learning Committee aims to advance strategic areas and core principle(s) outlined in CARL’S Strategic Focus 2025-2028 and the institutional academic mission by:
- Articulating the strategic role of research libraries in supporting the delivery of education (both teaching and learning);
- Working collectively to develop and implement a pan-Canadian framework to support essential student, faculty and researcher literacies (digital skills, information literacy, maker literacy, science literacy, data literacy, open educational practices);
- Pursuing strategic partnerships and innovative, scalable opportunities to promote equity as it pertains to student and faculty access to information and ways of knowing, potentially including:
- Promoting greater access to learning materials, whether through open educational resources, more affordable e-textbook licensing and pricing, controlled digital lending, etc.;
- Guiding the implementation of Marrakesh treaty outcomes and promoting greater accessibility;
- Partnering in Indigenizing and decolonizing curriculum content and delivery;
- Optimizing library use of learning technologies (LMS, AI applications, CDL) and optimal user experience;
- Partnering in initiatives to enhance student academic success in CARL institutions including student mental health and wellness.
Learn more about our work in Advancing Teaching and Learning
Working Groups
Communities of Practice
Past Sub-Groups
Open Education Working Group OEWG (2019-2024)
The Open Education Working Group (OEWG) was a group of Canadian librarians working in and committed to open education (OE). The group is designed to offer experienced insight towards ensuring ongoing relevance of CARL’s open education activities, and towards creating high-quality opportunities for librarians to develop capacity and leadership skills in open education.
Members:
- Lesley Balcom, Dean of Libraries, University of New Brunswick (chair)
- Ann Ludbrook, Toronto Metropolitan University (CARL Visiting Program Officer, Open Education)
- Karen Nicholson, University of Guelph (CARL Visiting Program Officer, Open Education)
- Nicole Askin, University of Manitoba
- Hailey Babb, SPARC
- Marilou Bourque, Université Laval
- Michelle Brailey, University of Alberta (on leave)
- Mélanie Brunet, University of Ottawa
- Emily Carlisle-Johnston, Western University
- Sarah Coysh, York University
- Erin Fields, University of British Columbia
- Josie Gray, Manager, Production & Publishing, BCcampus
- Rachel Harris, Concordia University
- Cynthia Holt, CAAL-CBUA
- Michelle Johnson, Centennial College
- Manisha Khetarpal, Maskwacis Cultural College
- Catherine Lachaîne, University of Ottawa
- Donna Langille, University of British Columbia Okanagan
- Lindsey MacCallum, Mount Saint Vincent University
- Karen Meijer-Kline, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
- Cal Murgu, Brock University
- Paula Parlette, Fanshawe College (on leave)
- Wilson Poulter, Fanshawe College (leave replacement)
- Stephanie Quail, Business Librarian, York University
- Sarah Shaughnessy, University of Alberta
- Ann Smith, Acadia University
- Victoria Volkanova, Université de Moncton
AI Task Group (2023-2024)
- Sheril Hook (Chair), York University
- Dianne Cmor, Concordia University
- Karen Munro, Simon Fraser University
- Dominique Lapierre, Université Laval
- Mark Robertson, Toronto Metropolitan University
- Helen Kula, McMaster University
- Lesley Balcom, University of New Brunswick
- Marc Comeau, Dalhousie University
Digital Literacy Task Group (2023-2024)
- Lesley Balcom (Chair), University of New Brunswick
- Navroop Gill, University of Toronto
- Nicole Nolan, Brock University
Members
As of June 2025
- Amber Butler (Carleton) - chair
- Lesley Balcom (New Brunswick)
- Dianne Cmor (Concordia)
- Sheril Hook (York)
- Dominique Lapierre (Laval)
- Nicole Nolan (Brock)
- Lionel Villalonga (UQAM)
The CARL President and Executive Director are ex-officio members of all CARL Strategic Committees.
CARL Liaison & Committee Secretary
Elizabeth Kalbfleisch