October is Latin American Heritage Month in Canada. Join other Latinx students and library and archive workers for a panel led by Latinx academic and public librarians.
Students are encouraged to submit questions before hand, but panelists will also accept questions on the day of the event. Let’s chat about life in the iSchool and in Canada, discuss jobs and libraries, and foster community.
We’ll host a potluck to ensure that everyone eats prior to their next class / meeting. Can’t bring food? All good, we all have been students on a budget in Vancouver! Can bring food? Awesome, we are dying to try it!
Questions? E-mail elizabeth.fernandes@ubc.ca.
Facilitator:
Emma Cornelius (she/her/hers) is the Reference Librarian at Lawson Lundell LLP. She graduated from UBC’s MLIS program in 2023, after which she completed a one-year contract as Learning Services Librarian at UBC Library. While a student, she worked at Xwi7xwa Library, University Canada West, and West Vancouver Memorial Library. Emma enjoys swimming, cooking, and has recently started her librarian-to-knitter journey by completing a sweater vest! Emma is an uninvited settler on Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territories and comes from Honduran and Welsh parents. Born on Treaty 6 Territory, she also grew up in Costa Rica, Peru, and Australia.
Panelists:
Emily Guerrero is a Mexican-American librarian living on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. They have worked across archives, art spaces, and academic libraries, and currently are a Community Librarian at the Burnaby Public Library. Emily is the chair of the BCLA’s Multicultural Services Interest group, and their writing on archival theory and art has been published most recently in Archivaria and C Magazine.
Adolfo R. Tarango is Cataloging & Metadata Librarian at the University of British Columbia. Adolfo has worked as a librarian in academic libraries for 28 years, most of the time serving in supervisory roles. Positions held have been either faculty or non-faculty status. He has served on a variety of international, national, and local committees, predominately related to cataloging and metadata, but more recently, on committees addressing equity, diversity, and inclusion. One such role is serving as Chair of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging’s Standing Committee on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Accessibility.
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