This paper looks at solicitor-client privilege from the perspective of the harm done to legal history and Canada’s documentary heritage by the claim that privilege never ends. Solicitor-client privilege provides that communications between lawyer and client in pursuit of legal advice cannot be disclosed without the consent of the client. Absent that consent, privilege lasts forever. The supposedly permanent duration of privilege has resulted in a gap in the sources for legal history, parti...

Many librarians suspect a misalignment between what students actually need to facilitate curricular research, what librarians think students need, and the librarian-curated tools created to meet those perceived needs. Specifically, academic librarians often create online, asynchronously accessible, research guides in order to aggregate relevant sources and outline research strategies.  Unfortunately, two problems persist: 1) If created without a specific request, guides may not...

Since 2018 we have been investigating the 2017-2019 parliamentary review of the Copyright Act, focusing on the recommendations made to the review committee for changes to fair dealing and other topics relevant to libraries and higher education. A new review of the Copyright Act was expected to be announced in late 2022 so in the past year we have shifted our focus to think about how this research might support copyright advocacy in libraries and library organizations.This has us thinking a...

By reviewing SSHRC grant projects between 2015–2022, this research intends to determine which recipients have published their findings in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, whether funding was used to cover the cost of an APC, and, if so, was a transformative agreement applied. This research intends to gain insight into:Have the publishing practices of early-career Social Sciences and Humanities researchers have shifted,a. If so, has this occurred more within specific discip...

Closing remarks from Pat Riva, Interim University Librarian, Concordia University. Recording: https://youtu.be/D0jUMPnm2nA