45 minute session (followed by 15 min for Q&A).

Location: Online. Upon registration, link will be emailed

Time: Part 1: Tuesday, September 22, 2-3 pm MT Edmonton  Part 2: November 3, 2-3 pm MT

Title: Making Indigenous language visible in your catalogue: ten years+ of Nunavut experience

Description: Over the past decade, Nunavut libraries have developed and incorporated descriptive cataloguing standards that accurately represent materials in various forms of Inuktut (Inuit language). These standards include the use of non-roman scripts such as Inuktitut syllabics in bibliographic records for items written in syllabics, the development of an Inuktitut bibliographic description vocabulary, and the establishment of multilingual, cross-referenced authority files for Inuit names and places. This session will explain methods of describing multilingual and multiscript materials, as well as authors, in their own languages and scripts, while respecting national and international cataloguing standards. Some best practices that can be used by any library to meet the needs of Indigenous library users will be suggested.

Presenter: Carol Rigby specializes in creating original multilingual and multiscript library catalogue records, with a focus on Inuit language. She has over two decades’ experience working in school, public and special libraries in Nunavut, both in front-line public service and in technical services. Since 2004, she has provided cataloguing services on contract for the Nunavut Legislative Library, the Pond Inlet Library and Archives Society, and Nunavut Public Library Services. A member of the Nunavut Library Association, she works with the national library community in Canada advocating for the right of Indigenous languages to be presented on their own terms in library catalogues.

Carol holds a B.A. Hons and M.A. from Carleton University, a Library and Information Technician diploma from Algonquin College, and an MSc in Information and Library Studies from The Robert Gordon University (Aberdeen, Scotland). I did much of my LIT diploma initially by distance ed through SAIT, finishing at Algonquin, and all of my MSc by distance learning while my family was located in Iqaluit--so I'm very familiar with the challenges of distance ed. Only when I started back in the '90s, it was all by fax machine!


Cost: Free
Registration required.

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This is part of the Maskwacis Cultural College Microlearning Series and is open to the public.
Contact Manisha Khetarpal by email via mkhetarpal@mccedu.ca or call toll free: 1 866 585 3925