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We are excited to welcome Kathia Ibacache (University of Colorado, Boulder) to the CIFNAL Speaker Series to speak on " Access to The Haitian Zombie in Academic Collection"
We are excited to welcome to the CIFNAL Speaker Series Eva Jurczyk and Daniel Godefroy to speak on "Access to Literature by Black Canadians." 
Join CRL on Wednesday, May 31, for the first community-wide convening of CRL’s process to strengthen and reinvest in global collections. This convening will provide an opportunity for the community to debrief on findings from Phase 1 (Discovery). The Educopia project leads Jessica Meyerson and Katherine Kim will facilitate community conversation and share their analysis of data collected through a robust series of focus groups and targeted interviews.  

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We are excited to welcome Aurélie Gadrat from Amalivre. She will speak on "Collecting Francophone comic books : illustrated reasons to collect Bande dessinées" Her presentation will cover: 

CIFNAL Meeting

Friday, January 20, 2023 - 10:30am to 12:00pm

CIFNAL will meet on Friday, January 20 from 10:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m.Central Time.
Charlotte Denoël, Chief Curator of the Bibliothèque nationale de France's Manuscripts Department, presents on the Bibliothèque's collections and programs.
Quinn Dombrowski (Academic Technology Specialist in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and in the Library, at Stanford University) presents as part of CIFNAL's ongoing spring speaker series.
Scholar and translator Nathan H. Dize builds on his research in this presentation as part of CIFNAL's spring speaker series.
Continuing CIFNAL's spring speaker series, this vendor session will feature representatives from CAIRN (Jérémie Roche), OpenEdition (Julie Therizols), and Erudit (Emilie Chouinard).    Click here to register  
Darlene Hull of Caribbean book vendor Libros de Barlovento presents as part of CIFNAL's ongoing spring speaker series.     Click here to register  
M. Stephanie Chancy, postdoctoral fellow at Florida International University's Department of History, presents on her work at the Digital Library of the Caribbean.
Clovis Gladstone, Senior Research Associate and Associate Director of the Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) at the University of Chicago, presents on the project's digital collections. Registration required.   Click here to register  

CIFNAL Meeting

Thursday, June 17, 2021 - 2:00pm

The Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections (CIFNAL) will meet on Thursday, June 17 from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. Central Time.

CIFNAL Meeting

Tuesday, February 9, 2021 - 1:00pm

The Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections (CIFNAL) will meet on Tuesday, February 9 from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. Central Time.

CIFNAL Members Meeting

Tuesday, June 23, 2020 - 11:00am

The members of the Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections (CIFNAL) will meet on Tuesday, June 23 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Central Time.

New Shape of Sharing: Networks, Expertise, Information

Monday, May 11, 2020 - 9:00am to Thursday, May 14, 2020 - 5:00pm

This multi-day forum of panel presentations, a poster session, and interactive breakout sessions on key issues facing Western European collections and public services will encourage both structured and unstructured debate.

CIFNAL Members Meeting

Saturday, June 22, 2019 - 8:30am

The members of the Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections (CIFNAL) will meet on Saturday, June 22, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Eastern time in the Kalorama Room of the Washington Hilton Hotel, which is located at 1919 Connecticut Ave, NW.

CIFNAL Members Meeting

Saturday, June 23, 2018 - 8:30am

The members of the Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections (CIFNAL) will meet on Saturday, June 23, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Central time in Room 216 of the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.

Frankfurt Symposium Debrief Session for CIFNAL and GNARP

Sunday, February 11, 2018 - 10:30am

Members of GNARP and CIFNAL will meet informally to share reflections of the New Directions for Libraries, Scholars, & Partnerships: An International Symposium held in Frankfurt, Germany on October 13, 2017.
The symposium will take place on Friday, October 13, 2017, at the German National Library during the Frankfurt Book Fair.  Anticipated session topics include: collections and collaboration, digital scholarship, the publishing revolution, new dimensions of service to scholars and students, and new strategies for services and partnerships.