CARL is committed to supporting provincial and national initiatives relevant to its mission, as well as developing formal and informal partnerships with relevant organizations in Canada and internationally.
External Relations
Currently, CARL is represented at the following external organizations/initiatives:
- Canadian Committee on Cataloguing – Susan Andrews (UBC)
- CFLA Copyright Committee – Martha Whitehead and Mark Swartz (Queen’s) and Susan Haigh (CARL)
- Indigenous Matters Committee – Mark Brogden (New Brunswick) and Jenna Walsh (SFU)
- Depository Services Program Library Advisory Committee – Carla Graebner (SFU) and Michael Shires (Regina)
- SPARC Steering Committee – Vivian Lewis (McMaster)
- Research Data Canada Steering Committee – Jeffrey Moon (CARL, Portage) and Martha Whitehead (Queen’s)
- Leadership Council for Digital Infrastructure – Martha Whitehead (Queen’s), Susan Haigh (CARL), and Jeffrey Moon (CARL, Portage)
- Canadian Consortium for Research – Susan Haigh (CARL)
- Canadian Science Publishing – Susan Haigh (CARL)
- CASRAI-CA Steering Committee – Susan Haigh (CARL)
- National Heritage Digitization Strategy Steering Committee – Martha Whitehead (Queen’s)
- International Alliance of Research Library Associations – Donna Bourne-Tyson (Dalhousie), Jonathan Bengtson (Victoria), and Susan Haigh (CARL)
- ORCID-CA Advisory Committee – Susan Haigh (CARL)
- Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services Board – Susan Haigh (CARL)
Partners
CARL also maintains a relationship through agreements, membership or informal means with the following groups:
| Canadian national library organizations | |
| APLIC | Association of Parliamentary Libraries in Canada |
| FMD | Fédération des milieux documentaires |
| CHLA | Canadian Health Libraries Association |
| CFLA | Canadian Federation of Library Associations |
| CULC | Canadian Urban Libraries Council |
| PTPLC | Provincial and Territorial Public Library Council |
| Canadian university library regional consortia | |
| BCI | Bureau de coopération interuniversitaire |
| CAUL | Council of Atlantic University Libraries |
| COPPUL | Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries |
| OCUL | Ontario Council of University Libraries |
| Canadian national research and higher education organizations | |
| ACA | Association of Canadian Archivists |
| CAGS | Canadian Association of Graduate Studies |
| CALJ | Canadian Association of Learned Journals |
| CANARIE | Canada’s Advanced Research and Innovation Network |
| CASRAI CA | CASRAI Canadian Chapter |
| CAUT | Canadian Association of University Teachers |
| CCA | Canadian Council of Archives |
| CCA | Council of Canadian Academies |
| CCR | Canadian Consortium for Research |
| CFHSS | Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Compute Canada | Canada’s National High Performance Computing (HPC) Platform |
| CRKN | Canadian Research Knowledge Network |
| CSAE | Canadian Society of Association Executives |
| CUCCIO | Council of University Chief Information Officers |
| PKP | Public Knowledge Project |
| UC | Universities Canada |
| Canadian government-related organizations and services | |
| CFI | Canada Foundation for Innovation |
| CIHR | Canadian Institutes of Health Research |
| Copyright Board | Copyright Board of Canada |
| CRTC | Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission |
| DSP | Depository Services Program (under Government of Canada Publications) |
| NSERC | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada |
| Open Government | Open Government |
| SSHRC | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada |
| National Libraries | |
| BAC-LAC | Library and Archives Canada |
| BAnQ | Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec |
| BL | British Library |
| BNF | Bibliothèque nationale de France |
| LoC | Library of Congress (US) |
| Non-Canadian and international organizations | |
| ACRL | Association of College and Research Libraries |
| ADBU | Association des directeurs et des personnels de direction des bibliothèques universitaires et des services documentaires de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche (FR) |
| ALA | American Library Association |
| ARL | Association of Research Libraries |
| CASRAI | Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information |
| CAUL | Council of Australian University Librarians |
| CNI | Coalition for Networked Information |
| CRL | Center for Research Libraries |
| EDUCAUSE | Advances higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology |
| IARLA | International Alliance of Research Library Associations |
| IFLA | International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions |
| LIBER | Association of European Research Libraries |
| OCLC | Online Computer Library Center |
| RLUK | Research Libraries UK |
| SCONUL | Society of College, National and University Libraries (UK) |
| SPARC | Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition |
