Full Name
                                                    Maria Theres Cleire Lauron
                                                    Institution/Organization
                                                    Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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                                                    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.
                        