Registration is now open for Concordia University Library’s 17th Annual Research Forum, in Montreal. This year’s Research Forum will be held on Friday, April 26th, 2019, at the Loyola Jesuit Hall and Conference Centre.
Registration is free and includes a light breakfast and lunch. To register and view the preliminary conference schedule, please click here.
The Research Forum provides an opportunity for librarians, archivists, graduate students, teaching faculty, and information professionals to describe and promote their completed or in-progress research, practical case studies or projects. The Forum also provides a venue for researchers to seek suggestions for enhancing their research interests, to identify potential new partners for projects, to test the effectiveness of their undertakings, and to promote research in academic libraries.
This year’s keynote speaker is Camille Callison, Tsesk iye (Crow) Clan of the Tahltan Nation, who is the Learning & Organizational Development Librarian and a PhD student (Anthropology) at the University of Manitoba. Camille is Past Chair of the Indigenous Matters Committee and a Copyright Committee member of the Canadian Federation of Library Associations (CFLA-FCAB). She chaired the CFLA-FCAB Truth and Reconciliation Committee and is an Indigenous Partner on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Taskforce. Camille is a member of IFLA Indigenous Matters Section Standing Committee and the Canadian Commission for UNESCO Memory of the World Committee and Sector Commission on Culture, Communications & Information.
For more information about the Concordia University Library’s 17th Annual Research Forum please contact Michelle Lake, Chair of the Research Forum Steering Committee at Michelle.Lake@concordia.ca.
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