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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
Date: Thursday, January 23, 2025 Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET Registration Join the CARL Communications Community of Practice for a discussion on Artificial Intelligence in Action: Ethical and Effective Library Marketing. Led by Ann Liang, business librarian at the University of Saskatchewan, this session will explore the potential of AI in library marketing, from […]
Date: December 17, 2024 Time: 12:00 – 1:30pm ET Registration Please join the CARL Library Publishing Community Engagement Team for our next community call! The theme for this call will be “flipping to diamond open access.” No fee (diamond) open access journals have been around for many years, but it does feel like this model […]
Date: December 10, 2024 Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm ET Registration Since the advent of ChatGPT two years ago, library teaching and learning staff have stepped up to support the academic community to navigate an ever-growing range of GenAI tools safely and efficiently. Earlier this year, librarians at Concordia University and McGill University teamed up […]
Date: Thursday, December 5, 2024 Time: 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. ET Registration We invite those across Canada interested in bibliometrics and research impact indicators to join this month’s call of the CARL Canadian Bibliometrics and Research Impact (BRI) Community of Practice. This month we are being joined by several of our colleagues for a series […]
Date: Thursday, November 28, 2024 Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET Registration Let’s spill the tea at this roundtable discussion! Feeling verklempt about a recent fudge-up? Elated about a joyful conclusion to a library project or campaign? Join us to share professional successes, foibles, and follies and to learn from each other. Let’s end the […]
Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2024 Time: 1:00pm - 2:30pm ET Registration You’ve probably heard of open access by now, but not everything that is openly available is also shared on open infrastructure. Using free and open source software platforms like DSpace, Islandora, and OJS is essential for sustainable and equitable scholarly communication infrastructure, and is […]
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries and co-sponsoring organizations including Canadian Research Knowledge Network, Library and Archives Canada, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Internet Archive Canada, Digital Research Alliance of Canada, and the Digital Preservation Coalition are excited to host an in-person 1.5-day summit on Canadian digital preservation. Dates: November 21 and 22, 2024 Location: Library […]
