Making Pacific Languages Discoverable: A Project to Catalog the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Library Pacific Collection by Indigenous Languages

In this essay, we describe our recent three-year project to increase the discoverability and accessibility of the Pacific-language materials in the Pacific Collection at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa Hamilton Library by improving and making consistent the descriptive metadata in the catalog, using standards accepted by both library science and linguistic science.