Date: July 9, 2025 Time: 1:00-2:00pm ET Registration Having Open Repositories FOMO (fear of missing out)? Join the Canadian Repositories Community of Practice for an OR Recap event! For many years, Open Repositories (OR) has served as a key point of knowledge sharing and collaboration for repository managers at institutions across the globe. Unfortunately, due to decreasing budgets for […]
Date: Friday, June 20, 2025 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm ET Recording Join us for an informal conversation on action items from @RiskNorth3: Safeguarding the Canadian Digital Record, the digital preservation summit that took place in November 2024. Sarah Lake (Concordia), CARL Visiting Program Officer for Digital Preservation, will give a short presentation on the high-level outcomes of @RN3, […]
Date: June 19, 2025 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm ET Registration There is a global effort to evaluate research in a more responsible manner, and Canada is no exception. Several Canadian institutions have recently signed on to DORA, the Declaration on Research Assessment. But what does it take to actually implement DORA-aligned practices in a Canadian research context? […]
Date: June 18, 2025 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 pm ET Registration The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) is pleased to invite you to the first meeting of the new Open Education Community of Practice. Join us for a candid community conversation on the financial realities of supporting and scaling OER initiatives. Whether you’re navigating reduced funding, […]
« 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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
