ABSTRACT
In August 2016, Memorial University Libraries (MUL) entered a partnership with a pair of Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) researchers to digitise and provide access to specific historical texts related to the Labrador Inuit. This chapter discusses the collaboration from the viewpoint of MUL librarians engaged in the project. These guiding principles shaped our own collaboration with the researchers and representatives of the Labrador Inuit in achieving the key project deliverables to provide local Indigenous communities with electronic access to the texts for their own use. Notwithstanding, MAIN is a benchmark for how to approach the description of indigenous information resources held by archives and libraries, and it provided a guide for the subject analysis of MUL texts about the Labrador Inuit. In the case of the settler publications digitised as part of the MUL project, the Labrador Inuit are subjects of the resources insofar as they provide evidence of contact with the Moravian evangelical mission.
