Category Archives: News

Leadership 2050: Contextualizing Global Leadership Processes for the Future The 2015 Volume in the ILA Building Leadership Bridges (BLB) Series Call for Chapter Proposals – Submit 1200 word max proposal by June 20, 2014 View the Complete Call: http://www.ila-net.org/Publications/BLB/2015BLBCFP.pdf Expected … Continue reading →

From the Black Caucus of ALA website: The Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA), condemns the American Library Association’s (ALA) decision to continue with plans to hold the ALA 2016 annual conference in Orlando, Fla. in the wake … Continue reading →

News from The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) that might be of interest to MLS/MIS library students who are visible minorities: “ARL is accepting applications for the Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce (IRDW), a program designed to recruit master … Continue reading →

The Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (CAPAL) conference at Congress 2014  will be held at Brock University, St. Catharines, May 25-26, 2014. The following sessions are diversity-related and might be of interest to ViMLoC members. “Why Diversity‟ Is Not … Continue reading →

To help kick off the 2014 CLA conference in Victoria, the Visible Minority Librarians of Canada (VimLoc) Network invites you to attend our first ever dinner social on Wednesday, May 28 at 7 pm at The Old Spaghetti Factory Restaurant, … Continue reading →

A big thank you to all those who participated in the survey on collecting statistics of visible minority librarians currently working in Canadian institutions.  The survey was open from December 9th 2013 to January 31, 2014.  There were 120 complete … Continue reading →

Thursday, April 17, 2014.  Facilitator:  Dr. Loriene Roy  Dr. Loriene Roy (Anishinabe), Professor in the School of Information, the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin), served as the 2007-2008 President of the American Library Association (ALA) and the 1997-1998 President … Continue reading →

Colleagues, We are pleased to share with you the Preliminary Programme for the Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians’ (CAPAL) inaugural conference Shifting Landscapes: Exploring the Boundaries of Academic Librarianship to be held at the Congress of Humanities and Social … Continue reading →

Dear Friends: 2013 proved to be a year of great activity for ViMLoC!  January 2013 began with presentations by ViMLoC members at the Ontario Library Association Super Conference in Toronto on Thursday January 31st.  Topics discussed included: job market challenges … Continue reading →

The year 2014 promises to be an active year for ViMLoC.  First of all, we should introduce ourselves as the new co-moderators for ViMLoC (January 2014 – December 2015). Norda Majekodunmi is reference and instruction librarian at York University and … Continue reading →