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Are you attending #CAIS2025 / #ACSI2025? Share your experiences of the conference using our official hashtags. Whether you are attending in person or virtually, we'd love to see your thoughts, notes, and reflections.
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May 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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📣 LAST CALL / DERNIER APPEL 📣
CAIS/ACSI is recruiting for 2025–2026!

Now accepting nominations for:

🔹 Vice-President
🔹 Secretary
🔹 Student Representative
🔹 Awards Coordinator

📬 Nominate yourself or someone else by May 25, 2025!
📧 Send nominations to: anton.boudreau.ninkov@umontreal.ca
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May 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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📣 Reminder: Registration for CAIS 2025 closes May 16!
Join us in Halifax—or online—for CAIS 2025, happening May 27–29.

✨ Virtual registration is free
🏫 In-person rates are listed at the link below.

🔗 Register now: cais2025.ca/registration/
📩 Questions? conference@cais-acsi.ca
Bright yellow graphic promoting CAIS 2025 conference registration. Text reads: “CAIS 2025 Registration open. May 27–29, 2025. Virtual registration is free!” In-person rates are listed: Regular (non CAIS member): $100 Regular (CAIS member): $60 Student (non CAIS member): $20 Student (CAIS member): $0 A button-style label says “REGISTER.” Contact email is conference@cais-acsi.ca. Bottom corner features logos for CAIS ACSI and Dalhousie University. Image includes a circular photo of the Dalhousie University campus with a domed building surrounded by trees and ocean in the background.
May 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Attending CAIS 2025 in Halifax?

Consider attending Archives in Action—a roundtable on Indigenous film & archives.
📍Dalhousie, May 26, 2:30–4:30 PM
🥗 Food & drinks after
🔗 Free, limited to 25 spots! tinyurl.com/archives25
Poster for “Archives in Action” workshop. Event takes place Monday, May 26 from 2:30–4:30 PM at the Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building, Dalhousie University. Food and drinks provided after. Theme: Indigenous Film and Archives—the urgent need for frameworks for preservation, access, and distribution. Workshop welcomes archives practitioners, students, information professionals, and filmmakers. Roundtable aims to shape a “manifesto for action” toward a national policy agenda to protect Indigenous audiovisual heritage. Free registration, capped at 25 participants. Contact: stacy.allison@dal.ca.
May 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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📢 BIPOC attendees!

Planning to attend CAIS-ACSI 2025 in person? Apply for a full registration bursary—offered through the Federation EDID Initiatives Fund.

Applications open until April 30 (or until funds run out): docs.google.com/forms/d/17Qz...

#LIS #InfoScience #LISResearch
A bright pink and white promotional graphic for the CAIS 2025 BIPOC Registration Bursary. The top third is solid white with the CAIS/ACSI logo in the top left. The rest of the graphic is pink, with bold white text reading: “CAIS 2025 Conference. BIPOC Registration Bursary.” Smaller text reads: “For in-person attendees only. APPLY NOW for a full conference registration bursary. Open to all BIPOC attendees. Deadline to apply: April 30th, or until funds run out. cais2025.ca/registration.” The pink background features pixelated sparkly star along one side.
April 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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📢 LIS grad students! Join us for the CAIS/ACSI Student Research Forum 2025 🗓️ May 28, 12:45–2:15pm ADT (in-person + online option).

A space to share research, connect, and build the future of LIS—together.

Register by April 30: cais2025.ca/registration/

#LISstudents #LISresearch #InfoScience
April 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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If you thought you missed applying for our Awards, you're in luck! We have extended our deadline for applications/nominations to April 15, 2025.

Descriptions of all of our awards, as well as eligibility requirements, are here: cais-acsi.ca/Awards
April 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Applications are open for several awards celebrating the work of the Canadian LIS community:
 
Master's research award
Doctoral dissertation award
Emerging leader award
Career achievement award

Applications are due March 31, 2025, at midnight EST.
Learn more: cais-acsi.ca/Awards
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March 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Les inscriptions à la conférence de l'ACSI sont maintenant ouvertes! La 53e conférence annuelle de l'ACSI, sur le thème Retour vers le futur, se déroulera en format hybride du 27 au 29 mai 2025. Vous trouverez les informations relatives à l'inscription ici: cais2025.ca/registration/
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March 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Registration to the CAIS conference is now open!

Back to the Future, our 53rd annual conference, takes place from May 27-29th, 2025. Join us virtually or in Halifax, Nova Scotia, hosted by Dalhousie University's Department of Information Science. More information here: cais2025.ca/registration/
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March 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM