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CARL Releases Documentation to Support Canadian Repositories’ Participation in OpenAIRE

August 16, 2021. – Members of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)’s Open Repositories Working Group (ORWG) have released a suite of resources designed to get Canadian repositories’ contents […]

Call for Expressions of Interest – CARL Visiting Program Officer for Digital Access Policy

The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) is the national voice of Canada’s twenty-nine largest university libraries and two federal institutions. A bilingual not-for-profit organization, CARL coordinates national initiatives across […]

CARL’s Brief to the Federal Government’s Access to Information Act Review

CARL has submitted ten recommendations to the Federal Government that focuses on better funding for Library and Archives Canada for their role as the federal government archives, modifications to support […]

CARL Brief to the Federal Government on Budget 2022

CARL would like to thank the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Finance for seeking the views of Canadians on their priorities for the 2022 federal budget. Consult the Brief.

CARL Releases 2020 Annual Report

August 03, 2021 – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries is pleased to share our 2020 Annual Report. CARL 2020 Annual Report (PDF)

CARL Applauds Supreme Court’s Copyright Ruling on the Application of Tariffs and Fair Dealing

Friday, July 30, 2021. – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) welcomes today’s judgment by the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) in the York University v. Canadian Copyright Licensing […]

Call for Participation: The Canadian Web Archiving Coalition

Imagine a world in which libraries and archives had never existed. No institutions had ever systematically collected or preserved our collective cultural past: every book, letter, or document was created, […]

ARL, CARL, and Ithaka S+R Launch Joint Project to Advance the Research and Learning Mission

July 23, 2021 – The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) launched a joint project in June 2021 to explore how libraries advance […]

ARL/CARL Joint Task Force on Research Data Services Releases Final Report

July 19, 2021 – The Association of Research Libraries (ARL)/Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) Joint Task Force on Research Data Services has released its final report. The task force […]

Larry Alford Honoured with CARL Award for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship

May 18, 2021 – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) honoured Larry Alford with the CARL Award for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship during its Annual General Meeting. This […]