Full Name
Maria Theres Cleire Lauron
Institution/Organization
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Speaking At
Speaker Bio
Cleire Lauron (she/her) is an early career Filipina-Canadian librarian living and working on the unceded traditional and ancestral lands of the Kwantlen, Musqueam, Katzie, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen, Qayqayt and Kwikwetlem peoples. She is the Metadata & Discovery Librarian at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, where she is responsible for the creation, maintenance, and enrichment of metadata representing the library’s physical and digital collections. Her areas of interest include RDA (Resource Description and Access), subject analysis, classification, and EDI (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) in metadata. Her most recent project is the implementation of an Indigenous classification (modified Brian Deer classification) to KPU Library’s χʷəχʷéy̓əm Indigenous Collection.