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Welcome to the inaugural issue of The PEN (ProfessionalDevelopment and Education News)! CAPAL’s Education andProfessional Development Committee has created The PENin an effort to provide CAPAL members with a spacededicated to professional development and educationalopportunities relevant to Canadian academic librarians.

Our goal is to publish three issues of the newsletter per yearand the next issue will be available in the winter of 2016.

If you have suggestions or recommendations for content youwould like to see in upcoming issues of The PEN, pleasecontact Amanda Power (arpower@mun.ca), Chair,Education and Professional Development Committee.

Thank you and enjoy!

CAPAL’s Education and Professional Development

Committee 

Upcoming conferences

By Rhiannon Jones

North America

Books and publishing in libraries October 19-20, 2015: Vancouver, BC

Augustana information literacy in academic librariesworkshop October 21-22, 2015: Camrose, AB

Digital library forum October 26-28, 2015: Vancouver, BC

Internet librarian 

In this issue:

Upcoming

conferences 1

Upcomingwebinars 2

Fundingopportunities 3

The pulse:academiclibrarianshipeducation inCanada 4

Calls forarticles/book

chapters 5

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October 26-28, 2015: Monterey, CA

EDUCAUSE October 27-30, 2015: Indianapolis, IN and online

Library marketing and communications conference 

November 3-4, 2015: Dallas, TX

Charleston library conferenceNovember 4-7, 2015: Charleston, SC

Association for information science and technology (ASIS&T) November 6-10, 2015: St. Louis, MO

LOEX fall focus conference November 13-14, 2015: Ypsilanti, MI

ALA midwinter 2016 

January 8- 12, 2016: Boston, MA

International

Internet librarian international October 19-21, 2015: London, UK

ECEL European conference on e-learning October 29- 30, 2015: Hatfield, UK

International conference on information management and libraries November 10-13, 2015: Lahore, Pakistan

Semantic web in libraries November 23-25, 2015: Hamburg, Germany

Upcoming webinars

By Luisa Fisher

Earlier this summer, the Education and Professional Development Committee conducted aPriorities Survey of CAPAL members in an effort to determine how the membership would likeour Committee to support their professional development needs. We discovered that members

have a desire for learning opportunities in emerging areas of academic librarianship, includingproject management, new technologies, and trends such as social media and open access.Research-related skills (such as ethics, data management, and systematic reviews) were alsotop priorities.

Webinars are an ideal way to develop competencies without breaking the bank. Many webinarsare available free of charge for participants, while others may charge a fee that is nonethelessmore budget-friendly than travel and registration for conferences. The Partnership’s EducationInstitute (EI) offers several webinars this fall that are aligned with topics identified in the priorities

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survey: Online videos for library instruction (November 17), Research design and analysis(November 26), and Top tech trends in libraries (December 1). Registration is $45 for membersof the provincial/territorial associations that comprise The Partnership, or $55 for non-members.See the Education Institute’s fall course calendar  for full descriptions.

Meanwhile, several American organizations’ fall webinar offerings may be of interest to

Canadian academic librarians. On October 7, Library Journal will be hosting TheresaWillingham, the author of a new guidebook on makerspaces in libraries, for a free webinar onthe topic of  best practices for getting a makerspace started in your library. Later in the month, onOctober 20, the ACRL’s Choice offers a free webinar entitled Faculty perspectives on publishingopen access. Finally, from December 4-18, the folks behind Electronic Resources & Libraries(who conduct the annual Electronic resources & libraries conference) will collaborate withLibrary Journal to offer a free, three-part webinar series on Data driven academic libraries. Sessions will discuss what it means to be a data-driven academic library, and will then focus ontwo specific examples: library usage data analysis and impact metrics.

Project management (PM) for libraries was one of the topics most frequently named by prioritiessurvey respondents as a desired area for learning opportunities. Members may be interested in

this two-part webinar series on PM (Part 1, Part 2), hosted by OCLC’s WebJunction. The seriesfocuses on the development and assessment of project plans. While the webinar did take placeearlier this year, all learning materials are archived and accessible online.

Funding opportunities

By Amanda Power

Conference funding 

LIBRAS conference fundingDeadline October 15, 2015

ALCTS (association for library collections & technical services) first step awardMust be ALCTS memberDeadline December 1, 2015

ALA Global financial data academic business librarianship travel awardDeadline December 4, 2015

ALA STARS-atlas systems mentoring awardDeadline December 4, 2015

Grants and awards

SSHRC funding: upcoming deadlines

ACRL Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab American book prices current exhibitioncatalogue awards Deadline October 15, 2015

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CAUL/CBUA Collaborative research and innovation grantDeadline Last Friday in October

CLA Advancement of intellectual freedom in Canada awardDeadline November 14, 2015

ACRL Ilene F. Rockman instruction publication of the year awardDeadline November 30, 2015

ACRL Achievement and distinguished service awardsDeadline varies - majority are either November 20 or December 4, 2015

ACRL WESS-SEES De Gruyter European librarianship study grantDeadline December 4, 2015

ALA BRASS student travel awardDeadline January 15, 2016

CAUT awards and scholarshipsDeadlines Vary

NSERC grantsDeadlines Vary

The pulse: academic librarianship education in Canada

By Mark Weiler

 As the national association of professional academic librarians, CAPAL is interested in the stateof professional education in Canada. Perhaps the most powerful force of education are the eight

 ALA-accredited schools in Canada.

This section will help CAPAL members get an insight into the ALA accreditation process.

The ALA’s Committee on Accreditation is the accrediting body of 59 librarian educationprograms, eight of which are at Canadian universities. The committee is comprised of 12appointed members, one of which must be Canadian.

The 2008 accreditation procedures defines six qualitative standards and involves acomprehensive review process. In February 2015, the ALA adopted a new set of accreditationstandards. Accreditation now revolves around five standards and has greater emphasis on

learning outcomes.

The most recent Canadian schools to have gone through the comprehensive review processare the University of Alberta, the University of Ottawa, the University of British Columbia, andthe Université de Montréal. The next in line are McGill (Fall 2016), the University of Toronto(Spring 2017), Western University (Spring 2018), and Dalhousie (Fall 2019). 

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Calls for articles/book chapters

By Amanda Power

Call for chapters: students lead the library: the importance of student contributions tothe academic libraryDeadline October 2, 2015

Call for chapters: library technology, funding, planning, and deploymentDeadline October 15, 2015

Call for chapters: library and information services for bioinformatics education andresearchDeadline October 15, 2015

Call for chapters: big data storage and visualization techniquesDeadline October 20, 2015

Call for chapters: the discovery tool cookbookDeadline October 23, 2015

Call for chapters: male gender studies in the library: case studies of innovative programsand resourcesDeadline October 28, 2015

Call for chapters: handbook of research on digital preservation tools and technologiesDeadline October 30, 2015

Call for papers: public services and user engagement: special issue of portal: librariesand the academyDeadline December 1, 2015

Call for submissions: the feminist among us: resistance and advocacy in libraryleadershipDeadline December 7, 2015

Call for proposals: inaugural issue of journal of critical library and information studiesDeadline December 18, 2015

Journal of access services: special issue call for papers: creating the single servicepointDeadline January 1, 2016

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