📖 New book review! 📖 Justin Bower reviews Search Foundations: Toward a Science of Technology-Mediated Experience, by Sachi Arafat and Elham Ashoori Read it here: doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #Library

New article! 📄 "Making the Invisible Visible: Workplace Bullying in Canadian Academic Libraries" by Maura Matesic. Read it here ➡️ doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #library

Making the Invisible Visible: Workplace Bullying in Canadian Academic Libraries | Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

Adams, Andrea. 1992. Bullying at Work: How to Confront and Overcome It. Virago.

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It's a summer of book reviews 😎📚 Check out our new reviews this month ⤵️ Nat Johnson-Tyghter reviews Exploring Contemporary Classification Practices, ed. by Jack Andersen and Joacim Hansson doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #Library

New book reviews published this morning! 📖 Jennifer Dekker reviews Platform Power and Libraries, ed. by Christine F. Smith: cjal.ca/index.php/ca... Nicole Slattery reviews Solving Names: Worldliness and Metaphysics in Librarianship, by Sam Popowich: cjal.ca/index.php/ca... #AcademicSky #Library

New reviews! 📖 🤖 Michael Ridley reviews Artificial Intelligence for Academic Libraries, by Clifford B. Anderson and Douglas H. Fisher ⤵️ doi.org/10.33137/cja... Brianna Calomino reviews Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI, by Karen Hao ⤵️ doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AI #Library

📖 New book review! 📖 Joel Blechinger reviews Critical Voices in Library and Information Work, by Stephen Bales and Tina Budzise-Weaver Read it here: doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #CritLib #Library

📖 New book review! 📖 Karly Gunson reviews Educating with Empathy: A Holistic Framework for Teaching the Research Process, by Dawn Rogers Stahura Read it here: doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #ResearchProcess #Library

Michael Kirby explores liberal climate activism, its "essentially unquestioned commitment to 'green growth,' or the notion that economic expansion can continue indefinitely alongside ecological sustainability," and greenwashing in libraries in our latest article ⤵️ doi.org/10.33137/cja...

"With growing concern over student stress, burnout, and wellbeing, libraries have an opportunity to support student success through creative means, including play." Read more in Glyneva Bradley-Ridout's "Making the Case for Play in Academic Libraries"➡️ doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #library

🎉CJAL is delighted to release our latest special issue, Reflections and Speculations on Critical Librarianship, co-edited by Sam Popowich, Lydia Zvyagintseva, and Maura Seale. Read the full volume here ⤵️ cjal.ca/index.php/ca... #CritLib #Libraries #AcademicSky

🎉 This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship! 🎉 cjal.ca/index.php/ca... #library #AcademicLibrary #AcademicSky

Susan Bond reviews "Knowing Our Value and Our Values: Toward an Ethical Practice of Library Assessment" by Scott W. H. Young in our latest book review 📖 Read it here ➡️ doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #Assessment #LibrarySky

Reminder: there are only 10 days left to submit to our latest CFP! ⌛ We are inviting submissions to our special issue on Libraries, Humans, Machines: Old Relationships, New Entanglements. Learn more and submit your proposal by Dec. 18: cjal.ca/index.php/ca... #AcademicSky #LibrarySky #OA

📖 New book review! 📖 Carol Leibiger reviews Training Library Instructors, Volumes 1-2, by Matthew Weirick Johnson Read it here: doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #library #pedagogy

Leah Guffroy and Jeff Verbeem explore trades librarianship in "Finding the Right Fit : How (and Why!) Academic Libraries can Support Trades Education". Read it here ➡️ doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #library #trades

📖 New book review! 📖 Lisa Shin reviews "Creating an Inclusive Library: Approaches for Increasing Engagement and Use with Students of Color", by Ngoc-Yen Tran, Michael J. Aguilar II, and Adriana Poo Read it here: doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #library

✍️CFP! We are inviting submissions to our special issue on Libraries, Humans, Machines: Old Relationships, New Entanglements. Read more and submit by Dec. 18: cjal.ca/index.php/ca... #AcademicSky #LibrarySky #OA

Renewal, promotion, and tenure are stressful academic career milestones. Power and Wheatley explore them in "Research, Promotion and Tenure Guidelines for Academic Librarians: An Analysis of the Vague Expectations in Canadian University Collective Agreements" ➡️ doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky

In one of our latest articles, Maureen Babb discusses how developing a personal research agenda can enhance librarians’ work and guide them in their research journey. Read it and find practical tips here: doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #AcademicLibrarian #research

Cassady, Hare, Mongeon, & Johnson investigate decision-making practices and processes of librarians concerned with the cancellation of Big Deals in one of our latest articles, "Big Deal Cancellations and Influences on Librarian Decision-Making" ↪️ doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #Libraries

📖 New book review! 📖 Erich Engler reviews "Critical Library Leadership: Managing Self and Others in Today's Academic Library" Read it here: doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #library

📖 New book review! 📖 Michelle Pettis reviews "The Kind Librarian: Cultivating a Culture of Kindness and Wellbeing in Libraries" Read it here: doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #library

📖 New book review! 📖 Maia Trotter reviews "Comic Books, Special Collections, and the Academic Library" Read it here: doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #library

📖 New book review! 📖 Douglas Fox reviews "The High-Impact Digital Library: Innovative Approaches for Outreach and Instruction." Read it here: doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky #library #OA

Congratulations, Kristin Hoffmann! 🥳 Kristin was a founding editor of CJAL, and the lasting impact of her contributions to CAPAL is evidenced by the success and growth of this journal. Read more: cjal.ca/index.php/ca...

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The CAPAL/ACBES Awards Committee is pleased to announce Kristin Hoffmann as the recipient of the inaugural 2025 Contributions to the Association Award. Congratulations to Kristin and thank you for your lasting impact on CAPAL!

Congratulations, Tina Liu! You can read her award-winning paper in CJAL: doi.org/10.33137/cja...

CAPAL-ACBES@capal-acbes.bsky.social · last yr.

The 2025 Early Career Researcher Award goes to Tina Liu for her paper “The Economics of Identity: How EDI Initiatives Treat Racialized Identities as Currency in Academic Libraries Congratulations to Tina for her incredible work on this paper and this well-deserved award!

📙 New book review! 📙 Natasha Gerolami reviews "Unravelling Research: The Ethics and Politics of Research in the Social Sciences," edited by Teresa Macias Read it here ➡️ doi.org/10.33137/cja... #libraries #AcademicSky

Le comité des publications de l'ACBES/CAPAL lance un appel à candidatures pour le poste de Rédactrice.teur en chef.fe français de la Revue canadienne de bibliothéconomie universitaire / Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship (Rcbu/CJAL), revue savante de l'ACBES: cjal.ca/index.php/ca...

📖 New book review! 📖 Victoria Levang reviews "Information literacy and Social Media: Empowered Student Engagement with the ACRL Framework," by Michele Santamaria and A. Nicole Pfnnenstiel Read it here ➡️ doi.org/10.33137/cja...

"Books created using copper acetoarsenite, a green pigment, remain in our libraries and personal collections, with potential health implications." See more in Bell & Canham, Pages of Poison: Identifying 19th Century Arsenical Green Books at Queen's University ❇️ doi.org/10.33137/cja... #AcademicSky