Program
All session times are listed in Eastern Time (ET).
Conference Sessions
May 15, 2024
If you want to learn more about CRKN and the work that we do to make knowledge accessible to all, join us for this pre-conference Intro to CRKN session.
May 22, 2024
Welcome
May 22, 2024
1:00pm
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Academic libraries have an opportunity and a responsibility to support language revitalization efforts in Indigenous communities, and an opportunity to celebrate the diversity and complexity of these languages in support of research and teaching at our institutions. While recognizing that collecting
May 22, 2024
1:30pm
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Since 2021, the Edmonton Queer History Project (EQHP), MacEwan University Archives, and the University of Alberta Library have been working together on a community-led digital queer history collection by utilizing the organizational strengths of each group. This presentation will talk about how the
Ādisōke, the forthcoming shared facility of the Ottawa Public Library (OPL) and Library and Archives Canada (LAC), will bring together under one roof the rich collections of a world-class public library and a national institution, bringing to life the stories and histories that unite them. The
May 22, 2024
2:45pm
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Recognizing the pivotal role of community engagement in advancing the research principles of open science, our presentation focuses on the organization and hosting of the inaugural Open Research Symposium. This event aimed to forge connections to build a vibrant, inclusive and sustainable campus
May 22, 2024
3:00pm
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Materials on websites of galleries, libraries, archives, museums (GLAM) are woefully siloed from each other and from scholarly contexts. Missing links hamper interpretation, shackle researchers, and perpetuate biases and colonial legacies from older systems. Linked data allows researchers to address
May 22, 2024
3:30pm
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What goes on behind the scenes as a journal flips to open access? Before dropping the paywall, what conversations happen, what supports are put in place, and who is involved? The recent experience of the Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development (JAED) is an interesting case-in-point: within one
May 23, 2024
PIDs or Persistent Identifiers, unique alphanumeric codes associated with specific entities, are a useful tool for providing authoritative, disambiguated, and persistently available information within and across resources. Academics have adopted ORCIDs to distinguish between the dozens of Richard
May 23, 2024
1:15pm
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This presentation describes SFU Library’s support for in-class publishing projects. These projects promote collaboration, knowledge sharing, and responsible content use, and involve making connections within and beyond the library. The presenters, a Digital Scholarship Librarian and a Copyright
May 23, 2024
1:30pm
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Capturing stories about queer and trans organizing on campus’ has been an important step in understanding the rich history of radical gathering, socializing, celebrating, organizing, and protesting that has happened in our region. Queer Joy Now! A Dusting off of Histories is an archiving and
In alignment with our commitment to support open access (OA) publishing which aims to enhance research impact and increase equitable access to research, McMaster Libraries actively engage in OA publishing agreements, both through consortial and local initiatives. Licenses with a range of publishers
May 23, 2024
2:30pm
The Respectful Terminology Platform Project (RTPP), a project of the National Indigenous Language and Knowledge (NIKLA-ANCLA), is an Indigenous-led multi-year project to be completed over six years to create a permanent and sustainable online platform that will be a dynamic, multilingual source for
The Internet Archive’s (IA) Community Programs helps memory and research organizations around the world provide universal access to all knowledge. We achieve this mission by working with partners to develop sustainable efforts that respond directly to community needs. In this session, presenters
May 23, 2024
3:30pm
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A large number of individuals work across Canada conducting analyses to support researchers and institutions using both bibliometric and qualitative assessments. These analysts are often working by themselves in this work and are in an environment where they have to figure out how to answer very
May 24, 2024
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) holds vast records documenting the federal government's control over Chinese immigration and, by extension, the Chinese Canadian community from the late-19th century through to 1967 when Canada finally shed its race-based immigration policy. Many Chinese immigration
As librarians, we found a gap in our controlled gender and sexuality vocabularies. Under the leadership of an UQAR librarian, a French translation group was born, with the purpose of the 2,000 English terms of Homosaurus. Our initiative aims to make accessible a French version of this open tool and
May 24, 2024
1:00pm
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With some of our earliest Read and Publish agreements having recently come up for renewal, and new agreements being regularly brought forward, librarians at Western Libraries have built an assessment framework to measure whether these agreements have had the return on investment that we’d originally
Computer science students at UPEI working with librarian Melissa Belvadi have just developed 3 open source tools: a new COUNTER usage data harvester, a tool to harvest LC call numbers from a list of ISBNs, and a desktop app designed specifically for the spreadsheets that the CRKN KBESC committee is
May 24, 2024
2:45pm
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To many researchers, the Rube Goldberg machine that's kicked into action when they publish or share their work is inscrutable. PIDs are "minted", copies are pushed to servers and repositories, citations are created and duplicated. Institutions and librarians are telling them all the important things