Indigenous knowledge in a post‐apology era: Steps toward healing and bridge building
Abstract EDITOR'S SUMMARY An important aspect of ASIS&T's international outreach is service to indigenous populations, a need that has received greater recognition since Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's public apology in 2008 for past disruption of Native families. The eme...
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crwiley:10.1002/bult.2014.1720400511 2024-06-02T08:06:45+00:00 Indigenous knowledge in a post‐apology era: Steps toward healing and bridge building Ghaddar, Jamila Caidi, Nadia 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bult.2014.1720400511 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fbult.2014.1720400511 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bult.2014.1720400511 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology volume 40, issue 5, page 41-45 ISSN 2373-9223 2373-9223 journal-article 2014 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1002/bult.2014.1720400511 2024-05-03T11:24:48Z Abstract EDITOR'S SUMMARY An important aspect of ASIS&T's international outreach is service to indigenous populations, a need that has received greater recognition since Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's public apology in 2008 for past disruption of Native families. The emerging field of indigenous librarianship can contribute significantly to the process of reconciliation in Canada and other countries with similar colonial legacies. Indigenous librarianship requires reconsidering the organization, classification and representation of library materials from a perspective free of culture‐ and language‐based assumptions. Key themes in indigenous librarianship include removing barriers to access, providing culturally relevant materials and services and departing from widely used knowledge organization systems such as the Dewey Decimal System to create classifications that reflect the Native worldview and epistemology. Successful examples include Australia's Pathways thesaurus project, the Māori Subject Headings from Aotearoa/New Zealand and the British Columbia First Nations Names Authority . Increased involvement by Indigenous people in information studies will enhance accurate representation of their cultures. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Wiley Online Library British Columbia ENVELOPE(-125.003,-125.003,54.000,54.000) Canada Dewey ENVELOPE(-64.320,-64.320,-65.907,-65.907) New Zealand Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology 40 5 41 45 |
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Abstract EDITOR'S SUMMARY An important aspect of ASIS&T's international outreach is service to indigenous populations, a need that has received greater recognition since Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's public apology in 2008 for past disruption of Native families. The emerging field of indigenous librarianship can contribute significantly to the process of reconciliation in Canada and other countries with similar colonial legacies. Indigenous librarianship requires reconsidering the organization, classification and representation of library materials from a perspective free of culture‐ and language‐based assumptions. Key themes in indigenous librarianship include removing barriers to access, providing culturally relevant materials and services and departing from widely used knowledge organization systems such as the Dewey Decimal System to create classifications that reflect the Native worldview and epistemology. Successful examples include Australia's Pathways thesaurus project, the Māori Subject Headings from Aotearoa/New Zealand and the British Columbia First Nations Names Authority . Increased involvement by Indigenous people in information studies will enhance accurate representation of their cultures. |
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Indigenous knowledge in a post‐apology era: Steps toward healing and bridge building |
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