DESCRIPTION
Libraries play an important role in providing access to resources by, and about Indigenous communities. However, systemic issues within Western knowledge organization systems complicate these efforts. To foster respectful and ongoing relationships with Indigenous communities, cultural heritage organizations – including libraries – must confront their historical and ongoing representations and relationships with these communities.
This webinar will explore different strategies for improving access to resources by and about Indigenous communities. Librarians from the University of Hawaii, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and the University of Toronto will share their recent experiences in developing culturally appropriate metadata. Topics include implementing Indigenous knowledge organization components, introducing local subject terms, and addressing harmful subject terms.
SPEAKER BIOS
Margaret Joyce is originally from Chicago, and has served as the original cataloger for the Hawaiian collection at Hamilton Library, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, since 2017. She received her Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a certificate in special collections, and a Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. For the past three years Margaret has served as the Metadata Specialist for Ka Wai Hāpai, as part of a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous librarians working to develop conceptual domains and terms specific to Hawaiʻ. Margaret’s professional interests include special collections, cataloging ethics, critical cataloging and knowledge organization, including the creation of controlled vocabularies to represent different forms of knowledge. Margaret currently serves as the Chair of ALA’s Subject Analysis Committee as well as chair of the committee’s Devaluation of Cataloging Working Group.
Cleire Lauron is the Metadata & Discovery Librarian at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (Surrey, BC Canada). She lives and works on the unceded traditional and ancestral lands of the Kwantlen, Musqueam, Katzie, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen, Qayqayt and Kwikwetlem peoples. Her areas of interest include RDA (Resource Description and Access), subject analysis, classification, and EDI (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) in metadata.
Jordan Pedersen (she/her) is currently a Research & Scholarship Librarian at the University of Guelph in Canada, and was previously a Metadata Librarian at the University of Toronto. She is a settler of Northern European ancestry, and former co-chair of the Indigenous Metadata Working Group at the University of Toronto.
Juliya Borie is a Ukrainian Canadian settler living on the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit. On her mother’s side, her grandfather belongs to the Khakas Indigenous people of Siberia. As a librarian in Metadata Services and co-chair of the Indigenous Metadata Working Group at the University of Toronto Libraries, she has the privilege of learning and amplifying the voices of Indigenous peoples in our catalogue.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Registration Deadline for live event: August 13th. This webinar will be recorded and made available to registrants after the webinar is completed.
Webinar Rates: FREE but limited to 450 participants.
