Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (CAPAL) Annual Meeting 2019

Date

June 2, 2019 08:30 - June 4, 2019 12:00

Location

Vancouver

Details

Website: https://conference.capalibrarians.org/

Theme: The Politics of Conversation: Identity, Community, and Communication

Hashtag: #CAPAL19

In keeping with the Congress 2019 theme, Circles of Conversation, the theme of CAPAL19 is Politics of Conversation: Identity, Community, and Communication.

This conference provides an opportunity for the academic library community to critically examine and discuss the ways in which our profession is influenced by its social, political, and economic environments. By considering academic librarianship within its historical contexts, its presents, and its possible futures, and by situating it within evolving cultural frameworks and structures of power, we can better understand the ways in which academic librarianship may reflect, reinforce, or challenge these contexts both positively and negatively.

In what kinds of conversation are we or are we not engaging within the profession, academia, and civil society? How are the various identities that constitute our communities reflected (or not) within academic librarianship, and how do we engage in conversations within our own communities and with communities that we may see as external.