Lisa Sloniowski has posted the text of her talk at the CAUT Librarians Conference in Ottawa last October: Who Speaks for Libraries and Librarians?

Four York librarians were at the October 2012 CAUT Librarians conference, "Contested Terrain: Shaping the Future Academic Librarianship." Lisa Sloniowski (with Jennifer Dekker from the University of Ottawa) gave a talk called "Who Speaks for Libraries + Librarians?" Three others attended and wrote conference reports: Mary Kandiuk, Marcia Salmon and Nick Ruest.

[This is a reposting of an announcement that has been sent to several mailing lists. Two York librarians, Mary Kandiuk and Stephen Spong, are on the CAPAL organizing committee.] Dear Academic Librarian Colleagues, We are writing to share with you information about a new, national non-profit membership organization that is being created to promote, advance […]

Call for Proposals for Forthcoming Book: In Solidarity: Academic Librarian Labour Activism and Union Participation in Canada EDITORS: Jennifer Dekker, University of Ottawa (jdekker@uottawa.ca) Mary Kandiuk, York University (mkandiuk@yorku.ca) PUBLISHER: Library Juice Press EXPECTED PUBLICATION DATE: 2014 BOOK ABSTRACT: With a focus on Canada, this collection will document the labour-related struggles and gains of academic […]

We admire this open letter written by Janet Friskney, president of the Bibliographical Society of Canada and our colleague here at York: President's letter about Library and Archives Canada.

[The text here is incomplete and does not include two lists of projects where York University has used the NADP and CCA. Please see the full PDF of the letter.] The Honourable James Moore, P.C., M.P. Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages House of Commons Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6 16 May 2012 Dear Minister: […]

[A PDF of this letter is also available.] The Honourable James Moore, P.C., M.P. Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages House of Commons Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6 16 May 2012 Dear Minister: On April 30, 2012, administrative staff at Library and Archives Canada announced that over two hundred professional staff had been served notice that […]

March 21, 2012 To: Councillor Paul Ainslie, Chair of the Toronto Public Library Board Jane Pyper, City Librarian We, the academic librarians and archivists of the Library Chapter of the York University Faculty Association, are writing in regards to the strike at Toronto Public Library and in solidarity with our colleagues in the Toronto Public […]

York librarian Lisa Sloniowski spoke at the Ontario Library Association conference last week, on a panel with Nick Ruest from McMaster, Sam Trosow from Western and Francesa Holyoke from UNB (the chair of the CAUT Librarians' Committee). Solidarity is a Two Way Street is her post about it on the blog she runs with Patti […]

York's Mary Kandiuk was one of the three organizers of Academic Librarianship: A Crisis or an Opportunity? Many York librarians and archivists attended this extremely informative and invigorating symposium. Mary, Harriet Sonne de Torrens and Diane Granfield reported on the day in Academic Librarianship: A Crisis or an Opportunity? in Partnership:The Canadian Journal of Library […]