About me
Margaret Joyce is originally from Chicago, and has served as the original cataloger for the Hawaiian collection at Hamilton Library, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, since 2017. She received her Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a certificate in special collections, and a Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. For the past three years Margaret has served as the Metadata Specialist for Ka Wai Hāpai, helping to build a Hawaiian knowledge organization system. Margaret’s professional interests include special collections, cataloging ethics, critical cataloging and knowledge organization, including the creation of controlled vocabularies to represent different forms of knowledge. Margaret has served as the Chair of ALA’s Subject Analysis Committee as well as chair of the committee’s Devaluation of Cataloging Working Group.
