Back to the Future: The 53rd Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science

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Welcome to CAIS 2025

The Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS/ACSI) is pleased to announce its 53rd annual conference to be held in a hybrid format at Dalhousie University, in the beautiful and vibrant oceanside city of Halifax, Nova Scotia from May 27-29, 2025.

This year’s conference is hosted by the Department of Information Science of Dalhousie University. We look forward to welcoming you to Halifax!

The CAIS 2025 conference is delighted to be joined by Emily Drabinski, Associate Professor at the Queens College (CUNY) Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, who will deliver the keynote address "Libraries at the End of the World". Her work focuses on critical perspectives in librarianship, including knowledge organization and information literacy and instruction. Drabinski is the immediate past president of the American Library Association.

The detailed conference program can be found here.

Important Dates

Submissions to CAIS 2025 are now closed.

  • Submission deadline: January 8th, 2025. January 20th, 2025, midnight Pacific Time.
  • Notification of acceptance: No later than March 15, 2025.
  • Submission of final versions: No later than April 30, 2025.
  • Deadline to register: May 16th.
  • Conference: May 27-29, 2025.

Organizing Committee

  • Philippe Mongeon, Dalhousie University
  • Maddie Hare, University of Ottawa
  • Geoff Krause, Dalhousie University
  • Constance Poitras, Université de Montréal
  • Poppy Riddle, Dalhousie University
  • Sandra Toze, Dalhousie University

For more information, contact us at conference@cais-acsi.ca.

Translators

We are very grateful to Université de Montréal students Ambre Lefaix-Franchi, Faye Daw-Yi Fung, and Alice Aubin-Mercier for their assistance translating the conference proceedings.

Volunteers

A big thank you to our dedicated volunteers: Cindy Bergeron, Kate Gaffney, Lisa Taylor, Rebecca Marjoram, Summer Wilson, Rowan Moore, Sarah Clarkson, and Sodiq Onaolapo.

Our Sponsors

CAIS 2025 is proud to be sponsored by the following organizations:

  • Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (EDID Initiatives Fund)
  • The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)
  • Érudit
  • ASIS&T Canada Chapter

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