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Past Activities

  • Thematic Networks Success Story: "DALAM Network Educates about Decolonization of Metadata"
    • Read the Success Story here.
  • Subject-Headings describing Indigenous Peoples in the RVM: a tailor-made methodology, an extraordinary project - January 15, 2025.
    • Lecture and demonstration by Susanne Brillant, Universite Laval. 
  • A Rough Guide to German Arctic and other Decolonisation Efforts: Backgrounds, Institutions and Results - March 19, 2025
    • Dr. Christian Salewski of the Archiv für deutsche Polarforschung (AdP), Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany presented an overview of the attitudes towards colonization over Germany's history, as well as current decolonization awareness and activities in the Germany archives sector. 
  • Vocabulaire décrivant les ​Peuples autochtones dans le RVM​ : Présentation à la Table de concertation du milieu archivistique québécois,​ 15 octobre 2025.
    • A 30 minute Zoom presentation by DALAM members, Susanne Brillant and Joë Bouchard, on their project to revise the subject headings describing Indigenous peoples in the  Répertoire de vedettes-matière (RVM). Zoom presentation to “Table de concertation du milieu archivistique québecois”. 
  • Finding Better Words, Interview of Joë Bouchard by Hugo Samson, published in Issues of Scholarly Dissemination.
    • An interview with DALAM member,  Joë Bouchard, regarding  the revision of the vocabulary concerning the Indigenous peoples in the Répertoire de vedettes-matière (RVM, Directory of Subject Headings) of the Bibliothèque de l’Université Laval.  Joë Bouchard  is a librarian at the Université Laval and specializes in Indigenous documentary heritage.

Presentations in 2023:

  • Moorman R, Cox D, Digou, L. Alaska Native Subject Headings Grant Project: An Update. November 7, 2023.
  • Häkkilä , Jonna.  The Nuohtti Service. September 26, 2023.
  • Desmeules, Robin.  Discussion of Best Practices for Authority Work Relating to Indigenous Groups in the U.S  published by the Latin American and Indigenous Peoples of the Americas SACO Funnel. June 13, 2023.
  • Brillant, S. Révision du vocabulaire décrivant les Peuples Autochtones dans le RVM : méthodes de travail et évolution du projet. Presentation as part of the course “Bibliographic description and documentary analysis” of the School of Library and Information Sciences (EBSI) of the University of Montreal. Online presentation. April 12th, 2023. (40 students)
  • Brillant, S. Révision du vocabulaire décrivant les Peuples Autochtones dans le RVM : a series of webinars for our clients about our decolonizing project of the French subject-headings in Canada related to Indigenous Peoples. Regroupement des bibliothèques collégiales (REBICQ). Online presentation. March 2, 2023. (45 attendees)
  • Brillant, S. Révision du vocabulaire décrivant les Peuples Autochtones dans le RVM : a series of webinars for our clients about our decolonizing project of the French subject-headings in Canada related to Indigenous Peoples. Association des bibliothèques publiques du Québec (Quebec Public Library Association) (ABPQ).Online presentation, February 21, 2023. (60 attendees)
  • Brillant, S. Révision du vocabulaire décrivant les Peuples Autochtones dans le RVM : a series of webinars for our clients about our decolonizing project of the French subject-headings in Canada related to Indigenous Peoples. Réseau informatisé des bibliothèques gouvernementales (RIBG). Online presentation, February 16, 2023. (25 attendees)
  • Brillant, S. Révision du vocabulaire décrivant les Peuples Autochtones dans le RVM : a series of webinars for our clients about our decolonizing project of the French subject-headings in Canada related to Indigenous Peoples. Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) » and for « Library and Archives Canada-Bibliothèque et Archives du Canada (LAC-BAC). Online présentation, January 26, 2023 (75 attendees)
  • Brillant, S. Révision du vocabulaire décrivant les Peuples Autochtones dans le RVM : a series of webinars for our clients about our decolonizing project of the French subject-headings in Canada related to Indigenous Peoples. Partenariat des bibliothèques universitaires du Québec (PBUQ), Online Presentation January 19, 2023. (55 attendees)
  • Farnel, S. Decolonizing Metadata. Online workshop presented by the Decolonizing Arctic Library and Archives Metadata (DALAM) Thematic Network. January 17, 2023
  • List of Decolonization-related Presentations and Publications by DALAM Members Pre - 2023 can be found here. (Updated April 16, 2023)

 

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