Infusing Knowledge of Indigenous Lifeways Into Graduate Collection Management Education. Issue 3 (2nd October 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Roy, Loriene
• Is Part Of: Collection management. Volume 42:Issue 3/4(2017)
• Page Start: 351
• Page End: 369
• Publication Date: 2017-10-02
• Subjects: Collection management -- Indigenous ways -- LIS education -- standards -- survey; Collection management (Libraries) -- Periodicals; 025.205
• DOI: 10.1080/01462679.2017.1351902
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0146-2679

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In 2013, we conducted a survey of faculty and recent graduates from graduate schools of library and information science (LIS). The purpose of this study was to assess student (as represented by recent graduates) and faculty awareness and opinions about incorporating content about Indigenous ways into their curricula. In short, we found that recent graduates and their faculty were both aware of Indigenous ways but sought varying ways to inform themselves. Faculty believed that they covered this topic in the classes they taught, while graduates reported that they did not hear of Indigenous ways in their course work. Of the courses that LIS students take in their programs, a class on collection management provides a useful platform through which to explore Indigenous identity and access and care of Indigenous cultural knowledge.