Call for Proposals – CAPAL22: Libraries and Wellness

January 9, 2022

The Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (CAPAL) invites you to participate in its annual conference, to be held online June 6-7, 2022. This year the conference will be free to attend for both members and non-members. This conference offers librarians and allied professionals across all disciplines an alternative space to share research and scholarship, challenge current thinking about professional issues, and forge new relationships.

CAPAL22: Libraries and Wellness

How do we define wellness and what does it mean in the context of the academic library? Can wellness play a role in academic libraries? Moreover, should it?

This CAPAL22: Libraries and Wellness conference will contemplate if and how wellness might be integrated into academic librarianship and academic library services. Together, we’ll wonder how our spaces, classrooms, and collections can contribute to a healthy, scalable, and sustainable future for academic libraries and their communities; if and how our current conceptions of wellness are compatible with equity, diversity and inclusivity projects, and how we can build ways of working together that are generative and affirming.

Potential Topics

Topics for papers, lightning talks, panels, and presentations should relate broadly to the topic of libraries and wellness and could include but are not limited to:

• Defining wellness in academic libraries
• The intersection of wellness and equity, diversity, and inclusion
• Wellness for diverse academic library community members
• The threat of misinformation on wellness
• Wellness-informed library services
• Meeting organizational demands in a sustainable and scalable way
• The impact of wellness on library staff recruitment and retention
• The future of wellness in libraries

The Program Committee invites proposals for individual presentations from students, practitioners, researchers, and academics. Presentations must be original.

• Paper presentations are typically 20 minutes in length
• Panel presentations are typically 60 minutes in length and include 3 panelists
• Lightning talks, approximately 5 to 10 minutes in length. Lightning talks can describe current research, works-in-progress, or other projects related to the conference theme

Proposals must include:

• An abstract of no more than 500 words
• A presentation title
• Up to 4 learning outcomes

Accepted presentations will be delivered online in both live and pre-recorded formats. Please indicate your format preference when submitting your application.

Proposals and presentations may be submitted in English or French. Please submit your proposal in English here: https://forms.gle/XrXHq1pSrdKa25wg7

Questions can be directed to the CAPAL22 Planning Committee at: CAPALconference@gmail.com

Proposal Deadline: February 15, 2021

The CAPAL Conference is committed to providing a space for everyone in academic librarianship to share their research, and meet and collaborate with colleagues. In striving to integrate our commitment to equity, inclusivity and representation, CAPAL welcomes and encourages proposals from researchers who identify as part of marginalized communities, including but not limited to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit individuals, Black individuals, people of colour, LGBTQIA2+ individuals, and disabled individuals.

We look forward to reviewing your submissions and seeing you at the conference,

The CAPAL22 Planning Committee