Indigenous Resources: Collecting and Sharing

Block D Session 2:15 – 3:00 PM

Meg Sinclair and Julian Taylor will present work being done by school librarians and the Services aux autochtones et développement nordique (SADN), to identify and provide resources for Quebec educators who are teaching Indigenous perspectives.  The SADN works with 3 out of the 11 first nations in Quebec and are ready to share their work with teachers and librarians.  Meg Sinclair, with contributions from the LBPSB high school library technicians, has been creating resource lists and online links for classroom teaching across the curriculum. QSLiN librarians have also been contributing to this growing collection of resources. Our purpose is to share this information with the school library community, and to show how we hope to make these resources more accessible for us all.

Bios

Meg Sinclair

Meg Sinclair holds a Masters in Library & Information Studies (M.L.I.S.), McGill University (2003), and a B.A. (Hons) in Anthropology, Concordia University (1995).  Prior to that, she obtained a Library Technologies Diploma from Sheridan College, Oakville, ON. Meg has worked for the Lester B. Pearson School Board (LBPSB) from 2003 to the present time. Her last two years have been part-time and the focus has been on sourcing educational materials to support the teaching of indigenous perspectives in the curriculum.

Prior work experience includes managing a corporate research library, then a non-profit adult literacy resource centre; and that memorable first professional job, a cataloguing library technician in an academic library at Western University, London, ON.  Meg has enjoyed being a member of the L’Association des bibliothécaires du Québec-Quebec Library Association from 1990 to the present.

 

Julian Taylor

Julian Taylor is currently on a loan of service from the English Montreal School Board, where he normally works as a board-level librarian assisting other librarians, as well as administrators, educational consultants and teachers in helping to improve school library services for everyone. Over the past 4 and 1/2 years of the loan of service to the MEES-DSCA, he has been working on Information Literacy, Digital Citizenship, as well as the liaison between the MEES and school libraries in the English sector of Quebec. As part of that last role, he is the chair of the Quebec School Librarians Network (QSLiN), where he helps to coordinate school library initiatives across the English sector of Quebec.  In addition to these activities, he is also the President of the ABQLA (L’Association des bibliothécaires du Québec-Quebec Library Association). MLIS McGill 2000. BA McGill 1998.

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