Conférences des associations

The Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (CAPAL) invites you to join us at George Brown College in Toronto on June 2nd-3rd, 2025. The conference is an opportunity for academic librarians and allied professionals to meet in-person, share research and build relationships.

The theme for CAPAL25 is The Fabric of Librarianship: A Patchwork of Experience

Academic librarians draw upon a diverse array of past experiences.

Community experiences: How do the communities and spaces in which we live inform our work? How do our hobbies and play transform our work?

Research experiences: How are our experiences as researchers informed by our backgrounds? Does our research involve storytelling to highlight the connections forged with our communities? Can librarians create research methodologies specifically for the library as our milieu?

Work experiences: How have our experiences as academic librarians been shaped by other library types or academic worlds? How does the diversity of skills, perspectives, and roles that academic librarians fulfill piece together into the quilt of our professional community?

Lived experiences: How do our identities and life stories manifest to accomplish our goals? Do we reach within ourselves or extend outwards to meet the needs and challenges of our profession?