Unsettling Our Practice: Decolonizing Description at the University of Alberta Libraries

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Lar-Son, Kayla
  • Koufogiannakis, Denise
  • Laroque, Sheila
  • Feisst, Debbie
  • Carr-Wiggin, Anne
  • Farnel, Sharon
  • Bigelow, Ian

• This poster provides an overview of the work of the University of Alberta Libraries to critically examine and revise its descriptive metadata practices to more accurately, appropriately, and respectfully represent Indigenous peoples and contexts. The poster was presented at the Diversity by Design Symposium in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 14 September 2017.

• Date created

  2017-09-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • LIS practice
  • Information ethics
  • Cataloguing
  • Metadata
  • Decolonization
  • Inclusive description

• Type of Item

  Conference/Workshop Poster

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3794175M

• License

  Attribution 4.0 International