Call for Proposals for Concordia University’s Library Research Forum 2025

December 3, 2024

Presentation proposals are now being accepted for Concordia University’s 23rd Library Research Forum. This year’s Research Forum will be a one-day event, with presentations taking place in person at Concordia University’s Loyola Campus on Friday, April 25, 2025.

The annual Research Forum provides an opportunity for librarians, archivists, graduate students, teaching faculty, and information professionals to describe and promote their completed or in-progress research, practical case studies or projects. The Forum also provides a venue for researchers to seek suggestions for enhancing their research interests, to identify potential new partners for projects, to test the effectiveness of their undertakings, and to promote research in academic libraries. Registration is free.

This year’s plenary speaker will be Sophie Montreuil. Sophie holds a Masters from the Université de Montréal and a doctorate and post-doc from McGill University. She is the Executive Director of Acfas as of December 2019, having been first Director of Research then part of the higher administration at Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. She currently or has recently served on the boards of several organizations and she chaired the Board of the Cegep du Vieux-Montréal for a six-year term. She has co-edited several collections, including Faire connaissance : 100 ans de sciences en français, published in 2023 by the Éditions Cardinal for the 100th anniversary of Acfas. In 2023, she was named to the rank of Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes académiques, and, in 2024, became a mentor for the Trudeau Foundation.

Themes

Proposals are invited on research or case studies in any area of Library and Information Science, including but not limited to:

• Library technologies
• Open scholarship and Open Access
• Social justice
• Decolonization and indigenization
• Universal design and accessibility
• Community engagement and outreach
• Assessment and impact
• Digital and information literacy
• Special collections, archives and digital preservation

Session Format

In-person Presentation – A 15-min formal presentation taking place onsite at Concordia’s Loyola Campus followed by a 5-min Q&A

Language

Presentations can be in English or French.

Submission

Fill out this form to submit. Deadline: January 24, 2025

The Committee will notify presenters who are selected by February 27, 2025

For more information, please visit: https://library.concordia.ca/about/staff/forum/index.php

Questions? Please contact the Forum Committee at lib-forum@concordia.ca

Library Research Forum Committee 2024-2025:

Tomasz Neugebauer
Kate Ripley
Pat Riva
Ellen Wright (chair)