Save the date: Advancing Open!

Save the date: Advancing Open!
Monday, May 6 (evening) and Tuesday, May 7 (full day)
Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue (SFU), 580 W Hastings St, Vancouver, BC (across the street from the Harbour Centre)

Advancing Open is an opportunity for the Canadian academic library scholarly communication practitioner community to convene and explore refreshed strategies to foster open scholarship in Canada. Practitioners, who have constant immersion in the open access space, are uniquely positioned to consider activities, supports, and priorities at local, regional, and national levels that will advance open access and related open scholarship activities across Canada.

This 1.5-day highly interactive workshop will be led and facilitated by members of our open access  practitioner community and is timed to immediately precede the Library Publishing Forum and its pre-conferences in Vancouver. We welcome participation from anyone from a CARL or non-CARL institution. We invite not only scholarly communications librarians but any and all working in areas of the library that also directly support scholarly communications, especially those working in collection development, systems, and subject liaisons.

This workshop, organized by the CARL Open Repositories Working Group (and led by its Community-Building and Engagement Task Group*), will result in a synthesis document that builds on previous CARL initiatives and can be used by the Canadian community of open access advocates, leaders and practitioners as an instrument to strengthen our collective ability to match strategy to tactical implementation.

Please join us!

*The ORWG Community-Building and Engagement Task Group is: Ann Barrett (Dalhousie University), Lise Brin (CARL), Amy Buckland (University of Guelph), Lindsey MacCallum (Mount Saint Vincent University), Leah Vanderjagt (University of Alberta).

Questions about the event? Please email  .