Tuesday 25 April, 2023

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

1:00 PM

Welcome and Opening Remarks

15 minutes, 1:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Christine Smith, Concordia University (Speaker)

1:15 PM

Policy Recommendations from the CARL funded study entitled Margins: Lessons learned from the lived experiences of marginalized graduate students navigating the academy during the COVID-19 pandemic

30 minutes, 1:15 PM - 1:45 PM

Talk

Cecile Farnum, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) Libraries (Speaker)

Aditi Gupta, University of Victoria (Speaker)

Maha Kumaran, University of Saskatchewan (Speaker)

Lisa Levesque, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) Libraries (Speaker)

Darcia Roache, University of Saskatchewan (Speaker)

Our CARL-funded research project aimed to understand how marginalized graduate students at our institutions adapted to the pandemic situation, p...

1:45 PM

Promising practices for cultivating diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in frontline reference services

30 minutes, 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM

Talk

Emilia Marcyk, Michigan State University (Speaker)

Sharon Ladenson, Michigan State University (Speaker)

Recent library literature conveys an increasing interest in diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) practices for improving libra...

Software selection Policies: Do they exist?

30 minutes, 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM

Talk

Mona Elayyan, Wilfrid Laurier University (Speaker)

Joshua Chalifour, Concordia Library (Speaker)

In the ongoing research study, we explore: How can libraries establish selection guidelines for the evaluation, acquisition, and provision of so...

2:15 PM

Break

15 minutes, 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM

2:30 PM

Researching Research Support

30 minutes, 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Talk

Kayla Monaghan, Washington and Lee University (Speaker)

Emily K. Cook, Washington and Lee University (Speaker)

Many librarians suspect a misalignment between what students actually need to facilitate curricular research, what librarians think students nee...

Arsenic and the Book Trade: A Toxic Relationship

30 minutes, 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Talk

Kim Bell, Queen's University (Speaker)

Robin Canham, Queen's University Library (Speaker)

As the book trade expanded in the early nineteenth century, new technologies and materials began to be used in bookbinding, this included the in...

3:00 PM

Beyond the academic paper: Turning research into advocacy

30 minutes, 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Talk

Stephanie Savage, UBC (Speaker)

Jennifer Zerkee, Simon Fraser University (Speaker)

Will Power-Jenkins, The British Museum (Speaker)

Since 2018 we have been investigating the 2017-2019 parliamentary review of the Copyright Act, focusing on the recommendations made to the revie...

“Use Funnier Memes Please”: Assessing Instructional Video Tutorials using UX and Participatory Design

30 minutes, 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Talk

Tina Lin, University of California Santa Barbara (Speaker)

Becca Greer, University of California Santa Barbara (Speaker)

Instructional video tutorials have been a commonly adopted method for library instructors to extend their reach as teachers. The limitations of ...

3:30 PM

If At First You Don't Succeed Tri-Tri-Again? Assessing the Impact of the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications

30 minutes, 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Talk

Hannah Steeves, Sir James Dunn Law Library Schulich School of Law (Speaker)

By reviewing SSHRC grant projects between 2015–2022, this research intends to determine which recipients have published their findings in peer-r...

AskAway Chat Reference During COVID-19: Research Findings

30 minutes, 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Talk

Patricia L. Foster, University of British Columbia (Speaker)

Aline Goncalves, Yukon University (Speaker)

Aditi Gupta, University of Victoria (Speaker)

Barbara Sobol, University of British Columbia (Speaker)

This session will present the findings of research into the types of questions posed by patrons during the COVID-19 pandemic on AskAway, the pos...

4:00 PM

Closing remarks

15 minutes, 4:00 PM - 4:15 PM

Pat Riva, Concordia University (Speaker)

Wednesday 26 April, 2023

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

8:30 AM

Registration

30 minutes, 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Loyola Jesuit Hall and Conference Centre - Lounge

9:00 AM

Welcome and Opening Remarks

30 minutes, 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Loyola Jesuit Hall and Conference Centre - 130

Welcome and opening remarks from Christine Smith, Chair of the Librarians’ Research Forum, Concordia University. Recording:

9:30 AM

Keynote Address - Champions of Accessibility: A Call to Action for LIS Practitioners

1 hour, 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Loyola Jesuit Hall and Conference Centre - 130

Keynote

Victoria Owen, University of Toronto (Keynote speaker)

LIS practitioners are recognized as having deep expertise in information; in its collection, description, preservation, safeguarding, and, up to...

10:30 AM

Channeling Negative to Positive: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Uncover EDI Learning Stories

30 minutes, 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Loyola Jesuit Hall and Conference Centre - 130

Talk

Megan Fitzgibbons, Concordia University (Speaker)

Chloe Lei, Concordia University (Speaker)

This session presents results from a qualitative study of Canadian academic librarians’ learning experiences related to Equity, Diversity, and I...

11:00 AM

Break

30 minutes, 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

11:30 AM

Who is (not) counted? Ethno-racial and Indigenous identities in the Census of Canada, 1871-2021

30 minutes, 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Loyola Jesuit Hall and Conference Centre - 130

Talk

Kevin Manuel, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) Libraries (Speaker)

Rosa Orlandini, York University Libraries (Speaker)

Finding published data on race, racialized populations, indigenous populations, and anti-racism in Canada is a challenge when conducting researc...

12:00 PM

The Canadian Census Data Discovery Partnership: Bringing a Data Treasure Chest to Light

30 minutes, 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Loyola Jesuit Hall and Conference Centre - 130

Talk

Alex Guindon, Concordia University Library (Speaker)

This talk presents the Canadian Census Data Discovery Partnership, a research project that brings together librarians and researchers from sever...

12:30 PM

Lunch

1 hour, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Loyola Jesuit Hall and Conference Centre - 110

1:30 PM

Domaine public canadien : L’ impact de la loi C-19 sur la visibilité des autrices et des créatrices

30 minutes, 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Loyola Jesuit Hall and Conference Centre - 130

Talk

Marie D. Martel, Université de Montréal (Speaker)

La durée de protection du droit d’auteur au Canada a été prolongée de 20 ans par le biais de la loi C-19 mise en application le 30 décembre 2022...

2:00 PM

Factoring into Impact: Librarian involvement on knowledge synthesis projects and relationship to journal impact factor

30 minutes, 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Loyola Jesuit Hall and Conference Centre - 130

Talk

Krista Alexander, Concordia University (Speaker)

Katharine Hall, Concordia University (Speaker)

There are numerous benefits for a researcher to involve a librarian in their knowledge synthesis project. Previously published studies have show...

2:30 PM

Break

30 minutes, 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

3:00 PM

Acquiring Lawyers' Papers: Why Bother?

30 minutes, 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Loyola Jesuit Hall and Conference Centre - 130

Talk

Dr. Jean Dryden, University of Toronto (Speaker)

This paper looks at solicitor-client privilege from the perspective of the harm done to legal history and Canada’s documentary heritage by the c...

3:30 PM

Certificates of Presence: Authorial Portraits and the Orientalist Travelogue

30 minutes, 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Loyola Jesuit Hall and Conference Centre - 130

Talk

Stéphanie Hornstein, Concordia University (Speaker)

As a form of writing, travelogues are first-person accounts that present a given place as seen through the eyes of a specific interpreter. With ...

4:00 PM

Closing remarks

15 minutes, 4:00 PM - 4:15 PM

Loyola Jesuit Hall and Conference Centre - 130

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