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November 17, 2020 – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) honoured Dr. Kathleen DeLong with the CARL Award for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship during its Fall General Meeting. This award is conferred annually to a Canadian individual who … More >> Dr. Kathleen DeLong Honoured with CARL Award for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship

November 17, 2020 – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) is pleased to have presented Eugene Barsky, Head, Research Commons, University of British Columbia Library, with the CARL Award of Merit during its Fall General Meeting. The CARL Award of … More >> CARL Honours Eugene Barsky with Award of Merit

Libraries and Equitable Access to Course Materials Equitable access to high quality educational resources is essential for student academic success. The cost of textbooks and other course materials can present major financial hurdles for students.[1] With textbooks costing students between … More >> Equitable, Affordable Access to Digital Course Materials for University Students: Issues and Solutions

November 12, 2020. – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has designed the Graduate Student Research Grant to support library school students’ active engagement in research activities. CARL invites applications from students currently enrolled in an accredited Canadian Library and Information … More >> Call for Applications – CARL Graduate Student Research Grant

November 5, 2020 – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries / Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada (CARL) wishes to conduct a diversity and inclusion study of, and for, its members. (Click here for a PDF of the Request … More >> Request for Proposal: The State of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in CARL Libraries 2021

October 28, 2020. – The Canadian Web Archives Coalition (CWAC) is excited to announce its 2020-21 webinar series, which will cover a range of topics on web archiving, new developments within the community, and special areas of interest as they … More >> Announcing the 2020-21 Web Archives Webinars Series

                          BACKGROUND Researchers frequently need to know where and when they can share a copy of their submitted, accepted and/or published journal articles in order to: meet the … More >> Creating More Visibility for Canadian Journals’ Self-Archiving Policies: An Open Access Week 2020 Crowdsourcing Project

Although the Canadian academic library community is active in promoting open access and open scholarship all year round, CARL wishes to highlight the many activities being organized for Open Access Week 2020. SPARC, the organization behind this annual international initiative, … More >> October 19-23, 2020 is Open Access Week

October 13, 2020 – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries’ Strengthening Capacity Committee is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Practicing Librarian category of the Research in Librarianship Grant fund. The Practicing Librarian Grant is awarded to new and … More >> 2020 Winners of CARL’s Research in Librarianship Grant

The Canadian Federation of Library Associations (CFLA) and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) are calling on federal and provincial governments to make official publications more accessible to Canadians by assigning a Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) to … More >> Canadians Need Unfettered Access To Government Publications In Face Of COVID-19