Scholars Portal Days 2025
Scholars Portal Days 2025: Building with Intention
Thursday, May 29 & Friday, May 30, 2025
12:30 - 3:30 p.m. EDT both days (English)
12h00 à 12h30 heure de l'Est, le vendredi 30 mai (français)
Online Event via Zoom
For Scholars Portal Days 2025 we want to discuss building with intention, both locally and consortially. The information and technology landscape continues to rapidly expand, with increasing pressure to match its pace. As new tools and access models are developed by vendors, how does Scholars Portal stand apart? What are the core values and priorities that form the foundations of our work, and how do we design services and infrastructure built on these foundations to support libraries for the long term?
Now more than ever we understand the importance of investing intentionally - not just financially, but also with time, expertise, and care. Together we can harness our commitment to evidence-based practices, data privacy, open source technologies and ongoing maintenance in order to build capacity and safeguard control over our own resources.
Join us May 29 and 30 from 12:30-3:30 p.m. EDT to celebrate the mindful innovation that fuels our community’s persistence and our shared dedication to Canadian academic library services well into the future.
Event Information
The event will be recorded and recordings will be shared publicly following the event. Live captions will be available in English.
Scholars Portal Days en français ! La majeure partie de notre programme est en anglais, mais une partie se déroulera en français. Rejoignez-nous le vendredi 30 mai de 12h00 à 12h30 pour des mises à jour sur les services and projets de Scholars Portal en français ! Veuillez noter qu'aucun service d'interprétation ne sera fourni. Le lien pour participer sera le même que le lien de Zoom de l'événement principal pendant les deux jours.
Post on Bluesky or Mastodon using the #SPDays25 and tag @scholarsportal!
Agenda
Thursday, May 29
| Time (EDT) | Session Description |
| 12:30-12:45 | Opening Remarks Catherine Davidson, Ontario Tech University |
| 12:45-1:45 | Bianca Wylie is a writer with a dual background in technology and public engagement. She is a partner at Digital Public, where she leads work on public interest technology advocacy. She worked for several years in the tech sector in operations, infrastructure, corporate training, and product management. Then, as a professional facilitator, she spent several years co-designing, delivering and supporting public consultation processes for various city governments and government agencies, including projects that focused on library operations, urban planning, and park design. She founded the Open Data Institute Toronto in 2014 and co-founded Civic Tech Toronto in 2015 and she sits on the advisory board of the Electronic Privacy Information Centre. Moderator: Gabby Crowley |
| 1:45-1:50 | Break |
| 1:50-2:20 | Lightning Talks Moderator: Ravit David |
| 2:20-2:35 | Break & |
| 2:35-2:50 | Amy Greenberg, Executive Director of OCUL |
| 2:50-3:05 | Catherine Steeves, Program Director; Kari Weaver, Program Manager |
| 3:05-3:25 | Lightning Talks Moderator: Harpinder Singh |
| 3:25-3:30 | Day 1 Wrap Up |
Friday, May 30
| Time (EDT) | Session Description |
| 12:00-12:30 | Les mises à jour sur les services and projets de Scholars Portal en français, y compris:
|
| 12:30-12:40 | Opening Remarks Day 2 Jacqueline Whyte Appleby, Associate Director of Scholars Portal |
| 12:40-1:10 | Scholars Portal Update Lightning Talk
Moderator: Jacqueline Whyte Appleby |
| 1:10-1:30 | Scholars Portal Update |
| 1:30-1:35 | Break |
| 1:35-2:05 | Scholars Portal Update Lightning Talk Moderator: Julia Gilmore |
| 2:05-2:40 | Scholars Portal Update Lightning Talks Moderator: Julie Shi |
| 2:40-2:55 | Break & |
| 2:55-3:20 | Scholars Portal Update Lightning Talk Moderator: Sabina Pagotto |
| 3:20-3:30 | Closing Remarks Lynne Serviss, McMaster University; Andrew Colgoni, Brock University |