Talk out loud

  An ecotopian lexicon (2019) introduces readers to: Presents thirty novel terms that do not yet exist in English to envision ways of responding to the environmental challenges of our generation. Included are terms such as blockadia, nahua and sila. Janet Tamalik McGrath has authored the chapter on sila, which she defines as: the many interconnected concepts, depending on the context: outdoors, outer, globe, Earth, atmosphere, weather, air, sky, intellect, intelligence, spirit, energy, cosmos, space, universe, and even life force.  McGrath graduate from Carleton with a PhD in Canadian Studies. Her dissertation is entitled Umaksaqsiurutigijakka : conversationswith Aupilaarjuk towards a theory of Inuktitut knowledge renewal and available through CURVE, our institutional repository.

Carleton Branch Research Data Centre opens Spring 2020 The COOL Research Data Centre will be opening a branch office at Carleton in Spring 2020. It will be located in MacOdrum Library, Room 120. Carleton University, the University of Ottawa and the Université du Québec en Outaouais are collaborators of the COOL RDC, which is located in the Morisset Library at University of Ottawa. The COOL RDC is part of the CRDCN (Canadian Research Data Centre Network) and provides secure access to detailed Statistics Canada data for researchers with approved research projects.  The RDC is part of a national university initiative to use Statistics Canada master files with a view to strengthen social research capacity and support social and economic policy analysis in Canada.

The Canadian Federation of Library Associations (CFLA) and the National Indigenous Knowledge and Language Alliance (NIKLA) has released the draft of its First Nations, Métis and Inuit-Indigenous ontologies . I have added the link to this resource on the detailed subject guide for Indigenous Studies ( https://library.carleton.ca/research/subject-guides/indigenous-studies-detailed-guide ) because it provides a “living” list of the names of Indigenous communities that are preferred and used by community members. I have been suggesting to the students with whom I consult that this list is helpful in identifying the Indigenous community names that they should be using in their searches. If you have any questions, please contact me at martha.attridgebufton@carleton.ca.