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The CAPAL/ACBES Awards Committee is thrilled to announce Jeein Park as the recipient of the inaugural 2025 Student Research Paper Award for her paper “Investigating the Relationship between Two Factors Affecting Student Retention Rate: Group Presentations and Instagram Accounts.”
Congratulations to Jeein for this incredible achievement!
Learn more: https://capalibrarians.org/about/committees/awards-committee/
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!
Learn more: https://capalibrarians.org/about/committees/awards-committee/
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!
Learn more: https://capalibrarians.org/about/committees/awards-committee/
The CAPAL25 conference is right around the corner, and we are looking for volunteers! If
you would like to volunteer to moderate or wayfind, please email us at [email protected] with the heading "Volunteer for CAPAL25."
Have a look at the schedule: https://www.conference.capalibrarians.org/schedule-capal25
and let us know any sessions that you would like to moderate and any sessions when you definitely DO NOT want to volunteer. We will reach out to confirm with you and then create a schedule. Thanks for any help!
Get ready for CAPAL25, happening June 2 &3 2025!
Learn more here: https://www.conference.capalibrarians.org/
If you have any questions, email [email protected]!
We’re excited to announce an opportunity for library students and new researchers - our free 6-week Summer Research Accelerator Program!
To apply or learn more about the program, please visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdnYuE_3iPv6vXpKDUcSmE90IkyGgAZMK3-iOg6745r3qNQVw/viewform
Applications close Friday May 2, 2025.
Thank you for your interest in our first Research Accelerator Program. Priority for this program is reserved for CAPAL members. We're limited to 30 participants. If you sign up, you are expected to attend at least 5 out of 6, 1.5 hour (90 minute) sessions and participate in the activities during the sessions. The program is online and synchronous, at 1 pm / 13h EDT, each Wednesday from July 9 to August 13, 2025. Being a CAPAL member and participating in least 5 of the 6 sessions is the requirement to receive a CAPAL certificate of participation. Sessions will not be recorded. At what time? 10 am in PDT 11 am in MDT 11 am in CST (Saskatchewan) 12 pm in CDT (Manitoba) 1 pm / 13h EDT 2 pm ADT Since space is limited, we appreciate your commitment in attending all sessions. The application deadline is Friday, May 2, 2025. There is no fee to attend the Research Accelerator program. We have received ethics approval to study the outcomes of this series. Please see the following page for more details. Participation in the research study is not required to participate in the program or receive the certificate of completion.
