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September 20, 2021 – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries’ Strengthening Capacity Committee is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 Practicing Librarian category of the Research in Librarianship Grant fund. The Practicing Librarian Grant is awarded to new … More >> 2021 Winners of CARL’s Research in Librarianship Grant

September 10, 2021 – CARL is delighted to announce that two new Visiting Program Officers (VPO) have joined our team.  On September 1, 2021, Susan Cleyle was appointed as CARL Visiting Program Officer for Leadership Development Initiatives. Rowena Johnson takes … More >> CARL Welcomes two new Visiting Program Officers

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

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 Digital Access Policy

CARL has submitted ten recommendations to the Federal Government that focuses on better funding for Library and Archives Canada for their role as the federal government archives, modifications to support reconciliation, means to address creation of alternate formats, ways to … More >> CARL’s Brief to the Federal Government’s Access to Information Act Review

CARL would like to thank the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Finance for seeking the views of Canadians on their priorities for the 2022 federal budget. Consult the Brief.

August 03, 2021 – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries is pleased to share our 2020 Annual Report. CARL 2020 Annual Report (PDF)

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