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February 28, 2023 The Canadian Association of Research Libraries seeks expressions of interest from 5-7 representatives from academic and research libraries across the country to serve a two-year term on the inaugural Canadian Repository Community of Practice Steering Committee (“Engagement … More >> Calls for Expression of Interest-CARL Canadian Repositories Community of Practice Steering Committee

The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) seeks 3-5 volunteers to serve a two-year term on the Steering Committee for the Canadian Bibliometrics and Research Impact (BRI) Community of Practice. This is an opportunity to connect and share knowledge with … More >> Call for Expressions of Interest: Steering Committee, Canadian Bibliometrics and Research Impact Community of Practice

January 18, 2023. – CARL invites applications for a Visiting Program Officer (VPO), Metadata & CARL Collaboration with OpenAIRE. The incumbent will work with the Canadian OpenAIRE Task Force to lead CARL’s ongoing collaboration with OpenAIRE, an international network that … More >> Call for Expressions of Interest – CARL Visiting Program Officer, Metadata & CARL Collaboration with OpenAIRE

September 6, 2022. – CARL is very pleased to announce that Geoff Harder joins our team today as Project Director, National Shared Repository Infrastructure. Bringing his extensive experience, knowledge, contacts, and enthusiasm to the role, Geoff will lead business case … More >> CARL welcomes Geoff Harder as Project Director, National Shared Repository Infrastructure

In 2019, CARL identified open education leadership as an important area for capacity building within its institutions and outlined activities and programs designed to bolster this emerging area of practice and support the development of national leadership in this arena. … More >> Call for Expressions of Interest to CARL’s Open Education Working Group

November 24, 2021. – On November 23, 2021, the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science was formally adopted at the full UNESCO General Conference after it was unanimously adopted by the UNESCO Science Commission on 16 November 2021.  The Recommendation provides … More >> Research Libraries: Key Partners in Implementing UNESCO’s Open Science Recommendation

The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) is the national voice of Canada’s twenty-nine largest university libraries and two federal institutions. A bilingual not-for-profit organization, CARL coordinates national initiatives across its member institutions and promotes their causes to achieve excellence … More >> Call for Expressions of Interest – CARL Visiting Program Officer for Open Education

August 16, 2021. – Members of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)’s Open Repositories Working Group (ORWG) have released a suite of resources designed to get Canadian repositories’ contents reflected in the OpenAIRE discovery service. In January 2018, CARL … More >> CARL Releases Documentation to Support Canadian Repositories’ Participation in OpenAIRE

Friday, July 30, 2021. – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) welcomes today’s judgment by the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) in the York University v. Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright) case. Having intervened in this case due … More >> CARL Applauds Supreme Court’s Copyright Ruling on the Application of Tariffs and Fair Dealing

Imagine a world in which libraries and archives had never existed. No institutions had ever systematically collected or preserved our collective cultural past: every book, letter, or document was created, read and then immediately thrown away. What would we know … More >> Call for Participation: The Canadian Web Archiving Coalition