Detailed Program

CARL AGM 2019 Agenda

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Venue: The Union Club of British Columbia
805 Gordon Street, Victoria, BC V8W 1Z6

Tuesday, April 30

8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Board Meeting (Union Club: McKenzie Lounge)

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
President’s Reception (Swans Hotel Penthouse – 506 Pandora Ave, Victoria, BC V8W 1N6)


Wednesday, May 1

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM
Breakfast and Registration (Union Club: Centennial Ballroom)

8:00 AM – 8:30 AM
VPO Lightning Talks (during Breakfast) (Union Club: Centennial Ballroom)

  • Erin Fields, Liaison Librarian (Humanities and Social Sciences) and Flexible Learning Coordinator, University of British Columbia; VPO for Open Education
  • Maha Kumaran, Head of the Education & Music Library, University of Saskatchewan; VPO for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

8:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Advancing Research Committee Meeting (Union Club: McKenzie Room)
Strengthening Capacity Committee Meeting (Union Club: McKenzie Lounge)

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Break (Union Club: Centennial Ballroom)

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Policy Committee Meeting (Union Club: McKenzie Room)
Assessment Committee Meeting (Union Club: McKenzie Lounge)

1:00 PM – 2:15 PM
Lunch (Union Club: Centennial Ballroom)

2:15 PM – 3:45 PM
Program – Strategic Plan Finalization (Union Club: Centennial Ballroom)

  • Susan Gibbons, ARL President
  • Merrilee ProffittSenior Manager, OCLC Research Library Partnership
  • Jonathan Bengtson, University Librarian, University of Victoria; CARL Vice-President

Slides: ARL Action Plan 2019-2020

Slides: CARL OCLC Innovation Survey

Draft: 2019-2022 Strategic Framework

(Google Doc)

3:45 PM – 4:00 PM
Break (Union Club: Centennial Ballroom)

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Spring Annual General Meeting (Union Club: Centennial Ballroom)

6:30 PM – 10:00 PM
CARL Reception and Dinner (Fireside Grill – 4509 W Saanich Rd, Victoria, BC V8Z 3G1)


Thursday, May 2

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM
Breakfast and Registration (Union Club: Centennial Ballroom)

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM
Program – Portage: Repositories and Training Update (Union Club: Centennial Ballroom)

  • Jeff Moon, Portage Director

Portage Training Resources

Portage Progress Report: For the period of January – March, 2019

Slides: Portage Continuum of Training and DRI Update

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Program – Research Information Management Systems Landscape (Union Club: Centennial Ballroom)

  • Dale Askey, Chief Librarian, University of Alberta
  • Donna Bourne-Tyson, University Librarian, Dalhousie University; CARL President
  • Vivian Lewis, University Librarian, McMaster University
  • Beth Sandore Namachchivaya, University Librarian, Waterloo University

Slides: Research Information Management Systems Landscape: Introduction

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Break (Union Club: Centennial Ballroom)

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Program – Open Infrastructure Investment: Status and Discussion (Union Club: Centennial Ballroom)

  • Catherine Steeves, Chief Librarian, University of Western Ontario
  • Mackenzie Smith, University Librarian, University of California Davis
  • Kathleen Shearer, Research Associate, CARL

Slides: University of California and Elsevier: status of transformative publishing agreements

12:00 PM – 12:45 PM
Lunch (Union Club: Centennial Ballroom)

1:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Shuttle to University of Victoria (Departing at 1:00 PM in front of Union Club)

1:45 PM to 4:00 PM
Program – Ethics of Sensitive Information; Repatriation of Cultural Materials; Decolonizing Metadata (Update) (First People’s House, Victoria, BC V8P 5C2)

  • Elder Victor Underwood
  • Jonathan Bengtson, University Librarian, University of Victoria; CARL Vice-President
  • Lisa Goddard, Associate University Librarian, Digital Scholarship and Strategy, University of Victoria
  • Dr. Andrea Walsh, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Victoria
  • Stacy Allison-Cassin, Digital Humanities Librarian, York University

Slides: Digital Ethics and Reconciliation

Closing Reception (Digital Scholarship Commons – McPherson Library)

5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Board Meeting (University of Victoria Library: Room 403)

7:15 PM
Board Dinner (Marina Restaurant, 1327 Beach Dr, Victoria, BC V8S 2N4)