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Call for Nominations: Western FIMS Alumni Award of Excellence
News February 11, 2025
Nominate a FIMS graduate for the new FIMS Alumni Award of Excellence and recognize someone for their outstanding professional achievement, community service, service to the university, or social impact and innovation.
Call for Participants: Library Job Satisfaction Study
News February 8, 2025
This study explores factors related to job satisfaction in libraries with an aim to better understand how to improve workplaces for library staff in Canada.
The Fifth Estate: The Shadow War on Libraries
News February 7, 2025
As Canada sees growing challenges to books about sex ed, gender identity and gay themes, CBC’s The Fifth Estate uncovers how activists have declared a shadow war on local libraries.
Save the date: GovInfo Day(s) Spring April 24 & 25
News February 6, 2025 1 comment
This year’s event will be hybrid event over two days: Thursday, April 24th (online and possibly in-person at the SFU Vancouver Downtown Campus) and Friday April 25th (in-person only at the Internet Archive Canada headquarters in Vancouver, BC).
Call for Proposals: 2025 ABC Copyright Conference
News January 20, 2025
Balancing Act—Copyright: Past, Present and Future
Call for Proposals: APLA 2025
News January 19, 2025
The APLA 2025 Conference Team invites proposals for consideration for presentation at the 2025 In-person Annual Conference from June 10-13, 2025.
Call for Applications: CAPAL Early Career Researcher Award
News January 19, 2025
The CAPAL Early Career Researcher Award is designed to encourage and celebrate research excellence among early career professional academic librarians.
Appel de candidatures : Prix ACBES pour chercheur·e en début de carrière
News January 19, 2025
Le Prix ACBES pour chercheur·e en début de carrière est conçu pour encourager et reconnaître l’excellence en recherche chez les bibliothécaires universitaires professionnel·le·s en début de carrière.
International Indigenous Librarians’ Forum (IILF) 2025 Toronto: Proposal Deadline Extension
News January 14, 2025
The International Indigenous Librarians’ Forum has extended the deadline to submit a proposal until February 21, 2025.
Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA) releases Competency Framework
News January 7, 2025
The Competency Framework outlines competencies generally required in the archives profession. Core competencies provide the foundation of the framework, describing the knowledge and skills needed to achieve professional goals.