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This accession consists of a small amount of textual records and 74 photographs taken and gathered by Charlotte Babicki which document the activities of the Systems and Computer Services and Records Management divisions within the Government of the Northwest Territories and the NWT Literacy Council. The accession is divided into two series.

This fonds consists of copies of a number of presentations made by the participants of the 1990 Circumpolar Conference on Literacy. Included is a copy of the conference program and copies of the text for speeches by Stephen Kakfwi, Minister of Education and Leslie J. Limage of UNESCO.

Records include correspondence and meeting minutes regarding an evaluation of the In-Service Training Program, correspondence and publicity materials relating to the promotion of literacy, and agendas, correspondence and reports from the Circumpolar Conference on Literacy held in 1990.

Records include Ministerial chronos (Minister Jakes Ootes) from 2001 as well as meeting minutes and presentation materials from the Ministerial Council on Literacy.

Records include photographs of school-oriented subjects such as classroom settings, school openings and events, awards presentations, and graduating classes dating from the 1980s and 1990s. Photographs also relate to departmental programs such as Arctic College, literacy programs, and special needs programs. The photographs are mainly of Yellowknife but also include photographs of school environments in Sachs Harbour, Fort Liard, and Fort McPherson.

Records date from 1997-2000 and include reference material, reports, plans, terms of reference, minutes and correspondence related to the work of the Postsecondary Education Review Steering Committee and NWT Standing Committee on Teacher Training. Records also consist of reports from the NWT Labour Force Development Forum, "The Bridge to my Future-A Report on Adult Basic Education in the NWT," and proceedings from a roundtable that was held on workplace literacy, and a report on literacy initiatives in the NWT.

Records include sound recordings from the Parish Council of Rae-Edzo's Dogrib Literacy Workshop, also known as the Dogrib Writer's Project, held in late August and early September 1992. The recordings were created as part of the reporting requirements for funding received under the Language Enhancement Program. The purpose of the project was to bring together Tlicho (Dogrib) literate people from the six communities of the North Slave Region to discuss the present state of the Tlicho written language and to develop ways to strengthen culture and identity through the Tlicho written word. Another aim of the project was to bring young people, who use Roman orthography, and elders, who use syllabics, together to identify those words not in common use and to ensure that they are recorded. The original proposal also called for the development of scripted stories to be read on local radio in Tlicho. One of the cassettes identifies Joe Erasmus as the interviewee.

This fonds consists of 8 cm of correspondence from children that attended school in the following communities between 1958-1969: Aklavik, Arctic Bay, Baker Lake, Belcher Islands, Broughton Island, Cambridge Bay, Cape Dorset, Chesterfield Inlet, Clyde River, Coppermine, Coral Harbour, Eskimo Point, Frobisher Bay, Great Whale River, Hay River, Fort Franklin, Fort Liard, Fort Resolution, Fort Smith, Fort Wrigley, Igloolik, Inuvik, Ivuyivik, Lac La Martre, Nahanni Butte, Norman Wells, Payne Bay, Port Harrison, Povungnituk, Resolute Bay, Snowdrift, Spence Bay, Sugluk, Whale Cove and Yellowknife. The letters were written in thanks to the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE) for books that were received by the children through the IODE Prize Books for Children of the Far North Project.