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2016 CARL Board of Directors Elections

Congratulations to Ms. Gwen Bird (Simon Fraser University) and to Ms. Vivian Lewis (McMaster University) on their election to the CARL Board of Directors. Their terms of office will be […]

CARL issues new position paper: Canadian Universities and Sustainable Publishing

February 25, 2016. – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has issued a new position paper, Canadian Universities and Sustainable Publishing, authored by Martha Whitehead and Brian Owen. The […]

Canadian Libraries’ Response to Chapter 18 of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

                           The Canadian Library Association, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, and the Canadian Urban Libraries Council have jointly […]

CARL Member Libraries Celebrate Fair Dealing Week

February 22-26 is Fair Use / Fair Dealing Week. To mark this event, CARL member libraries have planned various activities and initiatives to increase their campus communities’ understanding of the […]

Falling Canadian dollar raises longstanding issue of journal costs

OTTAWA, February 3, 2016 – Research libraries in universities across the country are experiencing severe budget pressures owing to the weakening Canadian dollar combined with the extraordinarily high costs of […]

Compute Canada and CARL Join Forces to Build a National Research Data Platform

EDMONTON, ALBERTA, January 27, 2016 — Compute Canada and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) announced today that they will collaborate to build a scalable national platform for research […]

CARL Receives DHCP Funding from Library and Archives Canada

OTTAWA, December 16, 2015 – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) is pleased to announce that its project, The Student Voice, will receive funding through the Documentary Heritage Communities […]

2015 Research in Librarianship Grants Announced

OTTAWA, December 14, 2015 – The CARL Research Libraries Committee is pleased to announce the winners for this year’s competition in the Research in Librarianship Grant fund. The CARL Research in […]

Higher Education Groups Support Lingua Editors, Open Access

CARL, along with a number of other North American organizations have signed on to this open statement supporting the editors and editorial board of Lingua protesting Elsevier’s practices with respect […]

CARL applauds the decision to restore the mandatory long-form census

Ottawa, November 6, 2015 – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) applauds the Government of Canada’s decision to restore the mandatory long-form census. The data obtained through the mandatory […]