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SUMMARY:Bibliometrics and Research Impact Community of Practice December Call: ORCID Adoption and Integration Panel: Maximizing Research Impact
DESCRIPTION:Date: December 2\, 2025\nTime: 1:00pm-2:00pm ET \nRegistration \nThe Bibliometrics and Research Impact Community of Practice (BRI CoP) invites you to join a panel discussion on ORCID adoption and integration across Canadian research institutions. This session will explore strategies\, tools\, and challenges for maximizing ORCID’s potential to improve researcher visibility and data interoperability. \nToby Malone\, Research Impact Librarian\, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU)\nWhile generally acknowledged as a vital academic tool across its campus\, an environmental scan of ORCID uptake at Toronto Metropolitan University showed only a fraction of all faculty were using the tool at all\, let alone maximizing its potential. Since the January 2025 adoption of the ORCID Affiliation Manager\, ORCID integration has grown exponentially at TMU\, led by Research Impact Librarian Toby Malone. In his short talk\, Toby Malone will introduce the adoption process of ORCID Affiliation Manager across a medium-sized faculty body\, along with the challenges and opportunities he discovered along the way. \nNikolas Lamarre\, Canadian Persistent Identifier Community Officer\, Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN)\nResearch outputs are often scattered across systems\, making it difficult to see the full picture of scholarly activity. Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) bridge these gaps\, linking data to make research information more interoperable\, discoverable and FAIR. Nikolas will highlight the ORCID Data Visualization Tool\, adapted by CRKN\, which integrates data from ORCID\, ROR\, Crossref\, and DataCite to visualize institutional collaboration networks. In alignment with Canada’s National PID Strategy\, upcoming enhancements aim to further deepen insights into researcher activity across the country. \nPierre Lasou\, Scholarly Communications Librarian\, Université Laval\nLaval went live with the DSpace ORCID module in September 2025. Pierre’s talk will focus on the reasons that made them use this advanced module in DSpace (as it requires the use of the entity model) and the challenges they encountered so far while configuring it\, using it and promoting it to their faculty. \nJack Young\, Research Impact & Bibliometrics Librarian\, McMaster University\nJack will explore ORCID integration within McMaster University’s research information management system (Symplectic Elements). He will explain how researchers can link and sync their ORCID with their McMaster-branded researcher profile to ensure accurate publication data and seamless updating. He will also describe how access to enhanced research impact services has been used as an incentive for faculty to keep ORCID up to date. \nThis session will be recorded.
URL:https://www.carl-abrc.ca/evenement/bibliometrics-and-research-impact-community-of-practice-december-call-orcid-adoption-and-integration-panel-maximizing-research-impact/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Bibliometrics & Research Impact
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SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] National DPC RAM Benchmarking Project: Office Hours [in French]
DESCRIPTION:UPDATE: Unfortunately\, this week’s office hours have been cancelled. We hope to reschedule at a later date. \nDate: December 3\, 2025\nTime: 2:00 – 3:00 pm ET \nAre you a CARL member planning to complete the DPC RAM this fall? Join us for group office hours and get started with support from your digital preservation peers! \nThese informal sessions are a friendly space to ask questions\, get some feedback\, or just have dedicated time to work on the assessment. While members of the Digital Preservation Working Group (DPWG) will be present and help facilitate the conversation\, this is envisioned as a community network event where participants can collectively share knowledge and tackle tough questions together. \nNote that the English language office hours will be held on Thursday\, December 4\, 12:00 – 1:00 pm ET. \nThese events will not be recorded. \nFor more information\, visit the project web page.
URL:https://www.carl-abrc.ca/evenement/national-dpc-ram-benchmarking-project-office-hours-in-french/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Digital Preservation
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SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] National DPC RAM Benchmarking Project: Office Hours
DESCRIPTION:UPDATE: Unfortunately\, this week’s office hours have been cancelled. We hope to reschedule at a later date. \nDate: December 4\, 2025\nTime: 12:00 – 1:00 pm ET \nAre you a CARL member planning to complete the DPC RAM this fall? Join us for group office hours and get started with support from your digital preservation peers! \nThese informal sessions are a friendly space to ask questions\, get some feedback\, or just have dedicated time to work on the assessment. While members of the Digital Preservation Working Group (DPWG) will be present and help facilitate the conversation\, this is envisioned as a community network event where participants can collectively share knowledge and tackle tough questions together. \nNote that the French language office hours will be held on Wednesday\, December 3\, 2:00 – 3:00 pm ET. \nThese events will not be recorded. \nFor more information\, visit the project web page.
URL:https://www.carl-abrc.ca/evenement/national-dpc-ram-benchmarking-project-office-hours-december/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Digital Preservation
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SUMMARY:Open Education Community of Practice December Community Call - Keeping Accessibility in Mind: H5P and Other OER Creation Practices
DESCRIPTION:Date: December 10\, 2025\nTime: 12:00pm – 1:00pm ET \nRegistration \nThe Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) is pleased to invite you to the December meeting of the Open Education Community of Practice. \nThis month\, we’re bringing the community together to explore practices for improving accessibility when creating H5P interactive content and in OER creation more generally. Our guest speakers are Shauna Roch and Jason Benoit from Fanshawe College’s OER Design Studio who will share their H5P Description Generator including the tool’s purpose\, design and how it supports accessibility. The H5P Generator is a part of a suite of apps developed to support the OER Design Studio. \nShauna Roch\, Project Lead\, OER Design Studio\, Fanshawe College\nJason Benoit\, Developer\, OER Design Studio\, Fanshawe College \nA discussion period will follow the presentation to share and learn from each other about practices around developing H5P with accessibility in mind\, along with other ways you bring accessibility into your work in Open Education. \nAll CARL members and non-members working in or interested in open education are welcome to join. \nIf you would like to be part of the Open Education Community of Practice and stay informed about upcoming events and activities\, subscribe to OE-COP-CARL-L\, the Open Education CoP discussion list. For more information\, visit the OE CoP webpage. \nThe session will not be recorded. It will be presented in English\, but we welcome questions and discussion in English or French.
URL:https://www.carl-abrc.ca/evenement/open-education-community-of-practice-december-community-call-keeping-accessibility-in-mind-h5p-and-other-oer-creation-practices/
LOCATION:Online Event
CATEGORIES:Open Education
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SUMMARY:Canadian Repositories Community of Practice December Call: Current Challenges and Future Directions for Institutional Repositories: Snapshots from the Literature
DESCRIPTION:Date: December 11\, 2025\nTime: 12:00pm-1:00pm ET \nRegistration \nThis session is part of the Article Release Party! series\, hosted by the Canadian Repositories Community of Practice. To get the most out of the discussion\, attendees are encouraged to read Current challenges and future directions for institutional repositories: A systematic literature review ahead of time. To suggest a future article\, contact Steering Committee Chair Priscilla Carmini at pcarmini@uwaterloo.ca. \nInstitutional repositories (IRs) are essential in advancing Open Access and facilitating the dissemination of scholarly work. Unfortunately\, numerous challenges are faced by IRs in areas such as strategic alignment\, content acquisition\, funding\, staffing\, quality assurance\, and technology. \nDuring this session\, participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of the current challenges facing institutional repositories worldwide. The discussion will encompass areas such as strategic planning\, staffing\, governance\, funding\, technology\, user engagement\, and additional relevant topics. The findings in this work underscore the importance of strategic integration with institutional goals and funders’ policies\, professionalization and technological readiness\, securing consistent funding\, and addressing challenges in content acquisition\, rights management\, and researcher participation. This study contributes to the broader discourse on strengthening IRs as critical components of scholarly communication within the Open Science ecosystem. \nLaura Rothfritz is a research associate and PhD candidate at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science’s department of Information Management. She studied at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and completed her MA in Information Sciences in 2019. Her doctoral research started in 2020 and is scheduled to be completed in 2026. Since 2023\, she is a member of the Board of Directors of the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF). Her main research interests are in the area of research data management\, infrastructure studies and open science with a special focus on socio-technological perspectives on the relationship between data infrastructures and societies\, and a strong relation to STS (Science and Technology Studies). The topic of her dissertation is trust and distrust in public data infrastructures with a focus on Data Rescue activities in the US. \nLisa Matthias is a research associate in the project “Professionalisierung der Open-Access Repositorien-Infrastruktur in Deutschland (Pro-OAR-DE).” Previously\, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki\, Finland. With a PhD in Political Science from Free University Berlin\, she brings extensive experience in mixed-methods research\, data analysis\, and project management. Her research on the topic of Open Access has been widely received and has garnered significant media attention in publications such as Nature News. Lisa has contributed to multiple international research projects\, including as a visiting scholar at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver\, Canada. Her research interests include open access (specifically the sustainability and costs of different access models)\, research evaluation\, and research policy. She is a member of the ScholCommLab. \nThis session will be recorded.
URL:https://www.carl-abrc.ca/evenement/canadian-repositories-community-of-practice-december-call-current-challenges-and-future-directions-for-institutional-repositories-snapshots-from-the-literature/
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SUMMARY:Futurescape Libraries AI Toolkit Workshop
DESCRIPTION:« All Events\n \n\n	Futurescape Libraries AI Toolkit Workshop\n\n			December 15\, 2025\n	  –\n	December 16\, 2025\n	 \nThe Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) and the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL)\, together with University of Ottawa\, Library and Archives Canada\, and Carleton University\, are pleased to offer ARL/CNI’s Futurescape Libraries AI Toolkit Workshop. This is the first Futurescape Libraries AI Toolkit Workshop to take place in Canada\, and the last of these workshops offered by ARL in 2025. The workshop is designed for senior library leaders and those leading strategic development in AI.  \n\n	Library and Archives Canada\n\n395 Wellington Street\n		\n		Ottawa\,\n	Ontario\n	K1A 0J1\n	Canada\n\n\n	+ Google Map \n\n					\n			(613) 996-5115			\n	 \n\n	View Venue Website \n\n\n					\n				About the Workshop & Toolkit\n		\n				\n				Registration\n		\n				\n				Accommodation\n		\n				\n				Program Schedule\n		 \nAbout the Futurescape Libraries AI Toolkit Workshop\nThis workshop introduces participants to a toolkit featuring practical reusable activities and templates research libraries can use to plan for consequences\, challenges\, and opportunities vis-à-vis AI futures. Participants will learn tips and techniques for bringing AI future-planning back home to their own organizations for iterative reuse. They will collaborate and gain experience for using the toolkit to create actionable\, cross-cutting\, and scenario-specific plans\, projects\, and activities at their research libraries. \nThe ARL/CNI Futurescape Libraries AI Toolkit is designed for leaders of research libraries who want to integrate the ARL/CNI AI Scenarios into ongoing planning activities—such as annual operating plans\, strategic reviews\, or cross-institutional conversations. \nOrganized into five flexible modules\, the toolkit offers structured activities to help leadership teams\, staff\, and occasionally external stakeholders: \n\nExplore future possibilities\nTest current strategies\nIdentify opportunities and vulnerabilities\nBuild readiness for long-term change\n\nThe toolkit was developed to explore scenario-specific strategies and activities that libraries can undertake to prepare for various AI-influenced futures. \nRegistration\nThe workshop is designed for senior library leaders and those leading strategic development in AI. Spaces are limited to a maximum of one or two attendees per institution. To confirm your place\, please complete the registration form below and submit the CAD $150 commitment fee using the PayPal payment link provided. \n \n  \n					\n									Register for the Futurescape Libraries AI Toolkit Workshop\n					 \nAccommodation\nHilton Garden Inn Ottawa Downtown361 Queen St\, Ottawa\, ON K1R 0C7Tel: (613) 234-6363 \nA block of rooms has been reserved for December 15-16\, 2025 at Hilton Garden Inn Ottawa Downtown\, at a cost of $229 CAD/night. The special room rate will be available until November 20th\, 2025 or until the group block is sold-out\, whichever comes first. We suggest that you reserve as soon as possible to ensure that you can get a room. \n					\n				\n									Booking Link\n					 \nProgram Schedule\nMonday\, December 15: 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.Tuesday\, December 16: 9:00 a.m. – 01:00 p.m. \n					\n									Futurescape Libraries AI Toolkit Workshop Program Schedule (PDF)\n					 \n\nEdit\n\n\nStart Time\nTopic\nModule\n\n\n\n\nDay One – Monday\, December 15\, 2025\n\n\n8:30am\nBreakfast and Registration\n\n\n\n9:00am\nIntroductions\n\n\n\n\nScenario Planning and the ARL/CNI scenarios\n\n\n\n\nThinking about the Future\n1\n\n\n10:00am\nDrivers and Signals\n2.1\n\n\n10:30am\nEnvironmental scanning\n2.2\n\n\n11:00am\nThree questions\n2.3\n\n\n11:30am\nSynthesis\n2.4\n\n\n12:00pm\nLunch\n\n\n\n12:30pm\nScenario Immersion\n3.1\n\n\n1:30pm\nTesting Strategic Readiness\n3.3\n\n\n2:30pm\nScenario Action Planning Part 1\n3.4\n\n\n3:15pm\nSynthesis before Action\n3.6\n\n\n3:30pm\nScenario Action Planning Part 2\n3.4\n\n\nDay Two – Tuesday\, December 16\n\n\n8:30am\nBreakfast\n\n\n\n9:00am\nAI Opportunity Mapping\n4.2\n\n\n9:45am\nImpact vs Difficulty\n4.3\n\n\n10:30am\nPrioritizing Action\n4.4\n\n\n11:15am\nWild Cards\n4.5\n\n\n11:45am\nExtending Foresight\n5\n\n\n\nAbout the Futurescape Libraries AI Toolkit Workshop\nThis workshop introduces participants to a toolkit featuring practical reusable activities and templates research libraries can use to plan for consequences\, challenges\, and opportunities vis-à-vis AI futures. Participants will learn tips and techniques for bringing AI future-planning back home to their own organizations for iterative reuse. They will collaborate and gain experience for using the toolkit to create actionable\, cross-cutting\, and scenario-specific plans\, projects\, and activities at their research libraries. \nThe ARL/CNI Futurescape Libraries AI Toolkit is designed for leaders of research libraries who want to integrate the ARL/CNI AI Scenarios into ongoing planning activities—such as annual operating plans\, strategic reviews\, or cross-institutional conversations. \nOrganized into five flexible modules\, the toolkit offers structured activities to help leadership teams\, staff\, and occasionally external stakeholders: \n\nExplore future possibilities\nTest current strategies\nIdentify opportunities and vulnerabilities\nBuild readiness for long-term change\n\nThe toolkit was developed to explore scenario-specific strategies and activities that libraries can undertake to prepare for various AI-influenced futures. \nRegistration\nThe workshop is designed for senior library leaders and those leading strategic development in AI. Spaces are limited to a maximum of one or two attendees per institution. To confirm your place\, please complete the registration form below and submit the CAD $150 commitment fee using the PayPal payment link provided. \n \n  \n					\n									Register for the Futurescape Libraries AI Toolkit Workshop\n					 \nAccommodation\nHilton Garden Inn Ottawa Downtown361 Queen St\, Ottawa\, ON K1R 0C7Tel: (613) 234-6363 \nA block of rooms has been reserved for December 15-16\, 2025 at Hilton Garden Inn Ottawa Downtown\, at a cost of $229 CAD/night. The special room rate will be available until November 20th\, 2025 or until the group block is sold-out\, whichever comes first. We suggest that you reserve as soon as possible to ensure that you can get a room. \n					\n				\n									Booking Link\n					 \nProgram Schedule\nMonday\, December 15: 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.Tuesday\, December 16: 9:00 a.m. – 01:00 p.m. \n					\n									Futurescape Libraries AI Toolkit Workshop Program Schedule (PDF)\n					 \n\nEdit\n\n\nStart Time\nTopic\nModule\n\n\n\n\nDay One – Monday\, December 15\, 2025\n\n\n8:30am\nBreakfast and Registration\n\n\n\n9:00am\nIntroductions\n\n\n\n\nScenario Planning and the ARL/CNI scenarios\n\n\n\n\nThinking about the Future\n1\n\n\n10:00am\nDrivers and Signals\n2.1\n\n\n10:30am\nEnvironmental scanning\n2.2\n\n\n11:00am\nThree questions\n2.3\n\n\n11:30am\nSynthesis\n2.4\n\n\n12:00pm\nLunch\n\n\n\n12:30pm\nScenario Immersion\n3.1\n\n\n1:30pm\nTesting Strategic Readiness\n3.3\n\n\n2:30pm\nScenario Action Planning Part 1\n3.4\n\n\n3:15pm\nSynthesis before Action\n3.6\n\n\n3:30pm\nScenario Action Planning Part 2\n3.4\n\n\nDay Two – Tuesday\, December 16\n\n\n8:30am\nBreakfast\n\n\n\n9:00am\nAI Opportunity Mapping\n4.2\n\n\n9:45am\nImpact vs Difficulty\n4.3\n\n\n10:30am\nPrioritizing Action\n4.4\n\n\n11:15am\nWild Cards\n4.5\n\n\n11:45am\nExtending Foresight\n5
URL:https://www.carl-abrc.ca/evenement/futurescape-libraries-ai-toolkit-workshop/
LOCATION:Library and Archives Canada\, 395 Wellington Street\, Ottawa\, Ontario\, K1A 0J1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence,Workshops & Institutes
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