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Collaborating to Support Greater Visibility and Discoverability of Open Scholarship – DSpace 5 & 6 Extension Will Soon Enable Support for new OpenAIRE Guidelines

Monday, December 2, 2019. – Several Canadian research libraries are providing funding to ensure that the vast majority of DSpace repositories around the world can be discovered through OpenAIRE, an […]

CARL Issues Final Report of Study on Digital Preservation Capacity in Canadian Institutions

Friday, November 29, 2019. – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) is pleased to announce the release of the Final Report of the Survey on Digital Preservation Capacity and […]

Survey on Consultation Draft of Competencies for CARL / ABRC Librarians

November 28, 2019 – Reporting to the Canadian Association of Research Libraries’ (CARL) Strengthening Capacity Committee, the CARL / ABRC Competencies Working Group (CCWG) was struck in the summer of […]

Call for Applications – CARL Graduate Student Research Grant

November 20, 2019 – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has designed the Graduate Student Research Grant to support library school students’ active engagement in research activities. CARL invites applications from […]

CARL Issues Statement on Open Education

November 14, 2019 – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has released a statement on open education. CARL believes that the mission of universities is to create and disseminate […]

CARL Honours Dr. Selinda Berg with Award of Merit

Montebello, Quebec, November 7, 2019 – The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) is pleased to have presented Dr. Selinda Berg, Associate University Librarian, University of Windsor, with the CARL […]

Upcoming Open Education Training Opportunities

Following up on our October 16 webinar on accessibility in OERs, CARL’s Open Education Working Group is offering three additional webinars (descriptions below) which are a good opportunity to become […]

2019 Winners of CARL’s Research in Librarianship Grant Announced

October 28, 2019 – CARL’s Strengthening Capacity Committee is pleased to announce the winners of the 2019 Practicing Librarian category of the Research in Librarianship Grant fund. The Practicing Librarian […]

International Alliance of Research Library Associations (IARLA) Releases View of Plan S

October 24, 2019. — The International Alliance of Research Library Associations (IARLA), a platform for collaboration of five members associations representing research libraries, has released a view of Plan S, […]

CARL and Canada’s Federal Granting Agencies Working Together to Improve the Discovery of Canadian Research Outputs

October 23, 2019. – Canada’s three federal granting agencies have agreed to partner with the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) on a pilot project which seeks to use the […]