• CARL Canadian Repositories Community of Practice November Call – Going Beyond Articles: What Else Belongs in Institutional Repositories?

    Online Event

    Date: Tuesday, November 21, 2023 Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET Event Registration This year’s Open Access Week theme, “Community Over Commercialization,” asked us to consider how open scholarship can serve the needs and the interests of the academic community and the public. Institutional repositories have an important role to play in this. As […]

  • Bibliometrics and Research Impact Canadian Community of Practice November Call: Social Networks in Knowledge Mobilization Work

    Online Event

    Date: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 Time: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET Registration We invite all those across Canada interested in bibliometrics and research impact indicators to join this month’s community call of the CARL Canadian Bibliometrics and Research Impact (BRI) Community of Practice. This month’s invited speaker is Dr. Stephen McGregor (University of Calgary) who […]

  • 2023 Canadian Library Assessment Workshop

    London, Ontario , Canada

    Date: October 23 - 25, 2023 Location: London, Ontario The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) and Western Libraries invite you to participate in the 2023 Canadian Library Assessment Workshop (CLAW) which will take place in London, Ontario from October 23 - 25, 2023. The theme of this year’s event is assessment in a time of change, […]

  • Canadian Repositories Community of Practice Event – DSpace 7: How’s it going?

    Online Event

    Date: September 27 Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET The race to migrate to DSpace 7 has been keenly felt by many academic institutions with institutional repositories across Canada. DSpace 7 presents a steep learning curve for institutional repository managers and developers, due to extensive changes to the User Interface and new backend features. For this event, […]

  • Bibliometrics and Research Impact Canadian Community of Practice September Call – Indexing Tools and Journal Level Indicators

    Online Event

    Date: Tuesday, September 12, 2023 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 Canadian Bibliometrics and Research Impact (BRI) Community of Practice.  This insightful session will delve into two aspects of academic publishing: Open Alex and the […]

  • CARL Inclusion Perspectives Webinar Series: Sixth Panel Featuring Library Colleagues with Intersectional Identities

    Online Event

    Date: August 23, 2023 Time: 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. ET Registration closed Please note that this event is open to all (not just CARL institutions) and will be recorded. The Canadian Association of Research Libraries’ (CARL) Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Working Group is pleased to announce the sixth in a series of planned webinars on […]

  • CARL Canadian Repositories Community of Practice June Call – Community Conversations: Shared Infrastructure for Repositories

    Online Event

    Date: June 29, 2023 Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET  Registration Invited speaker: Geoff Harder, Associate University Librarian (University of Alberta) and CARL Project Director for National Shared Repository Infrastructure  Institutional repositories have become increasingly vital to the digital scholarship landscape at Canadian post-secondary institutions. Over the last twenty years, we’ve gained a lot […]

  • Bibliometrics and Research Impact Canadian Community of Practice June Call – Using VOSviewer to Visualise Patterns in Research Topics & Research Collaboration

    Online Event

    Date: Thursday, June 15, 2023 Time: 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. ET Registration How can we tell the story of our research beyond the usual counts and rankings? This session will demonstrate one tool that can be used to visualise patterns in research collaboration and research topics. For this example, we will look at existing collaborative […]

  • 2023 Librarians’ Research Institute

    Ottawa, Ontario , Canada

    Date: June 12 - 15, 2023 The four-day Institute is jointly hosted by Carleton University and the University of Ottawa (June 12-15, 2023), and will be geared toward taking current research skills to the next level, building upon current research interests, and making connections with other researching academic librarians, from across Canada. The Institute will […]

  • 2023 Spring Member Meeting

    Calgary Marriott Downown Hotel 110 9th Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    « All Events 2023 Spring Member Meeting May 29, 2023 - June 1, 2023 The Canadian Association of Research Libraries is pleased to invite member directors to the 2023 Spring Member Meeting. This annual gathering serves as a vital platform for the exchange of ideas, strategic planning, and collaborative discussions that shape the future of […]

  • Evidence Synthesis Institute Canada 2023

    Online Event

    Date: April 17 - 20, 2023 Evidence Synthesis Institute Canada, which piloted in 2022, will be offered again in Spring 2023. ESI Canada is based on the original Evidence Synthesis Institute (which is a US Institute of Museum and Library Services-supported program geared towards providing training on evidence synthesis). The Institute is aimed at library staff […]

  • Bibliometrics and Research Impact Canadian Community of Practice April Community Call – Linking Canadian Research: The state of PIDs in Canada

    Online Event

    Date: April 11, 2023 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. ET Registration In our next Bibliometrics and Research Impact Canadian Community of Practice session, John Aspler, Manager of the Canadian Persistent Identifier (PID) Community at the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, will: Describe research PIDs such as ORCiD and DOIs and discuss the problems they solve. Review […]