• 2025 Spring Member Meeting

    Inn at the Forks, Winnipeg, Manitoba 75 Forks Market Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

    « All Events 2025 Spring Member Meeting May 26, 2025 @ 09:00 EDT - May 29, 2025 @ 16:00 EDT The Canadian Association of Research Libraries is pleased to invite member directors to the 2025 Spring Member Meeting. This annual gathering serves as a vital platform for the exchange of ideas, strategic planning, and collaborative […]

  • Join the First Assessment Community of Practice Call

    Online Event

    Date: Thursday, May 22, 2025 Time: 12:00pm-1:30pm ET Registration The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) is pleased to invite you to the first meeting of the new Assessment Community of Practice. With over 50 participants already signed up from across the country, this CoP brings together library professionals working in assessment and impact to connect, collaborate, […]

  • Communications Community of Practice May Call – Communicating Change: A Discussion About Current Disruptions in Library Operations

    Online Event

    Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2025 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm ET Registration How do we proactively think about the future of academic libraries when the infrastructures of trust–technological and social–upon which our profession depends, are under threat and challenged? Join the Communications Community of Practice (a.k.a. the CommUNITY) for an open and thought-provoking discussion on how libraries are […]

  • CARL Inclusive Collections Webinar Series – From Shelves to Streams: How Format Shifts Impact Diversity in Academic Film Collections

    Online Event

    Date: Friday, May 2, 2025 Time: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ET Registration The Canadian Association of Research Libraries’ Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Working Group (CARL EDIWG) is pleased to announce the third in a series of planned webinars on inclusive collections. Canadian research libraries are actively engaged in the ongoing process of decolonizing their collections, […]

  • CARL Canadian Repositories Community of Practice April Call – Being Trustworthy: CoreTrustSeal Certification and Repositories

    Online Event

    Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET Registration Several national and international funders have mandated requirements for data management and preservation, leaving researchers in search of a trustworthy place to deposit their data. What does digital preservation mean for a data repository? Can we provide this infrastructure for researchers? Join the CARL […]

  • Evidence Synthesis Institute Canada 2025 (in English)

    Online Event

    Applications will be open from December 11th, 2024 and will close on February 3, 2025 at 11:59 pm PT. Successful applicants will be notified by March 3rd, 2025. The Institute itself is planned to run virtually from April 14-17, 2025. The Institute will run from 12-5 pm ET / 9am-2pm PT on each of the […]

  • CARL Bibliometrics and Research Impact Community of Practice April Call – OpenAlex for Research Analytics

    Online Event

    Date: Thursday, April 10, 2025 Time: 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. ET Registration Join the CARL Bibliometrics and Research Impact Community of Practice for a presentation and discussion on OpenAlex for Research Analytics with invited speaker Kyle Demes. Institutions of all shapes and sizes rely on data about the activities, outputs, and impacts of their researchers, as well as those at other […]

  • Communi-tea Time with CARL’s Communications Community of Practice

    Online Event

    Date: March 26, 2025 Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm ET Registration Let’s spill the tea! Join us for an informal gathering of library communications professionals to explore how AI is shaping our work. This is a great opportunity to ask any lingering questions from our last session, Artificial Intelligence in Action: Ethical and Effective Library Marketing with Business […]

  • CARL Webinar: Beyond Marrakesh: Fair Dealing and Creating Accessible Copies of Works for Disabled Persons

    Online Event

    Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2025 Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST (11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST) Registration required Presenter: Rowan Meredith Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) Student, University of Toronto The Marrakesh Treaty, which entered into force in 2016, was designed to create exceptions to copyright infringement for the creation of accessible copies […]

  • CARL Library Publishing Community Engagement Team Community Call – Publishing Standards

    Online Event

    Date: February 26, 2025 Time: 12:00 – 1:30pm ET Registration The CARL Library Publishing Community Engagement Team welcomes you to join our next community call about publishing standards.  In 2022, several publishing organizations (DOAJ, COPE, OASPA, and WAME) jointly published updated Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. These principles are just one […]

  • CARL Canadian Repositories Community of Practice February Call – Repository Horror Stories, Episode I: My Repository Broke My Heart

    Online Event

    Date: Thursday, February 13, 2025 Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm ET Registration Has your repository broken your heart? Are you on the outs with your service provider? Did a bad online encounter turn into a cybersecurity nightmare? What’s the strangest redaction request you’ve received?  Repository managers often encounter unique workplace situations that are not well understood […]

  • CARL Bibliometrics and Research Impact Community of Practice February Call: A Dataset and Bibliometric Approach to Estimating Annual Article Processing Charges for Six Scholarly Publishers

    Online Event

    Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2025 Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET Registration Join the CARL Bibliometrics and Research Impact Community of Practice for a presentation and discussion on A Dataset and Bibliometric Approach to Estimating Annual Article Processing Charges for Six Scholarly Publishers. The author-pays model, in which publishers charge authors an article processing charge (APC) […]