Book review of: Aboriginal and Visible Minority Librarians edited by Deborah Lee and Mahalakshmi Kumaran.

Book review of: Aboriginal and Visible Minority Librarians: Oral Histories From Canada edited by Deborah Lee and Mahalakshmi Kumaran.

Looks at a research tool, implemented in 1982, that records biographical information about individuals and families from every state and territory in Australia.

Library guide contains information, newsletters, statistics, reports, resources, links, journals, and databases on Aboriginal health.

Findings based on literature review, survey (250 respondents), and three case studies. Produced as part of the National Reading Campaign's Aboriginal Policy Initiative.

Portal "brings together inter-disciplinary sources and information relating to Indigenous Studies and Native-newcomer relations at the University of Saskatchewan". Contains links to library & archive holdings, other collections, scholarly output, etc.

Study conducted, using interviews with six Aboriginal students attending the University of Alberta, to examine library use, resources and services.

Explores issues of interpretation of fair use, historical collection of material, intellectual property and copyright, and Indigenous people as new user groups.

Summarizes findings from interviews with representatives from libraries, literature review, environmental scan, program analysis, and training in rural and remote areas.

Website has links to thousands of primary resources materials including digital photographs, albums, oral histories, maps, documents and timeline.

This website features reports, historic photographs, newspaper articles, personal accounts, tools for teachers and resources about Alaska and its inhabitants, and links to other useful sites.

Focuses on the various functions of the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library and the benefits to the Red Crow Community College on the Blood Reserve.

Papers presented at a two-day colloquium, Libraries and Indigenous Knowledge, in December 2004, Sidney, Australia.

Compares the values of mainstream libraries to those of band and tribal libraries and discusses the differences.

Discusses outreach activities of the Tuzzy Consortium Library at Ilisagvik College.

Discusses both public and academic library services, including in the virtual realm.

Book review of: Aboriginal and Visible Minority Librarians edited by Deborah Lee and Mahalakshmi Kumaran.

Book reviews of 6 books: As Long as the Sun Shines and Water Flows edited by Ian Getty and Antoine S. Lussier. Native Children and the Child Welfare System by Patrick Johnston. A Bibliography of Algonquian Syllabic Texts in Canada Repositories by John Murdoch. Heritage of the North American Indian People: Some Suggestions Emphasizing the Eastern Woodlands by Daniel H. Page and Victor M.P. da Rosa. Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 10 by W.C. Sturtevant and A.

Offers culturally appropriate ways to offer assistance.

Discusses that more must be done to ensure First Nations peoples have access to library and information services.

Looks at Lotsee Patterson's determination to obtain federal grants that would allow her to open local tribal libraries, thereby setting the groundwork for many more across the United States.

Distributed Learning Thesis (M.A.)--Royal Roads University, 2004.

Comments on creation of a community library in the territory of Kahnawake, due to a letter written by a thirteen year old student to her local paper.

Information is dated (2005).

Material contained in the newspaper published in Montreal from 1869 until 1883; includes news from North American and Europe as well as some 4000 images.

Survey of publications (and their library holdings) by and about Canadian Inuit, over the last fifty years.

Brief profile of the prominent American Indian librarian and delegate to the White House Conference on Libraries and Information Services.

Asserts that the dominant cataloguing systems are inadequate for Indigenous material and discusses alternate systems which provide greater accessibility.

Discusses the principles of Ownership, Control, Access, and Possession (OCAP) which define how information can and should be used by researchers, governments and corporations.

Library and Information Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pittsburgh, 2002.

Discusses filters to be used in systematic reviews.

Recommends more Indigenous students in information science and increased collaboration between archives and Indigenous communities to decolonize archival methodology.

Authors offer a decolonial critique of academic attribution practices arguing that they maintain the Euro-centric hierarchies of knowledge production. They argue for the decolonizing attribution by reevaluating the process through Indigenous lenses of kinship and connection to land.

Author examines some of the projects currently under way in libraries which respond to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) Calls to Action; discusses possible first steps for cataloguers to add Indigenous Syllabics to records for Cree and Inuit Materials.

Report offers 26 recommendations for library staff and researchers seeking to decolonize their services in regards to collaborative research with Indigenous communities, the products of that research, and previously acquired archival materials. Multiple case studies included; majority are Canadian, but also includes cases from Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, and the United States.

Discusses the issues involved when institutions attempt to provide greater access to materials relating to Indigenous cultures.

Uses the example of the University of Georgia's project to preserve, archive and interpret culture to illustrate opportunities and problems associated with using technology to provide access to historical materials.

Authors discuss subverting the historically mainstream and assimilative culture of book clubs through preparatory research and community collaboration in order to create a space for engaging with Indigenous literatures.

Focuses on the challenges faced by libraries and other related institutions wishing to reproduce Australian Indigenous artwork.

Describes a project named “Gi bugadin-a-maa goom (‘To Sanction, To Give Authority, To Bring to Life’)" undertaken by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,and discusses questions which arise when digitization takes place.

As part of the Ithaca S+R report When Research is Relational researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi interview 17 faculty members about their research and teaching practices. Report presents finding and suggestions for improving library services to faculty in the area of Hawaiian Studies.

Panelists discuss strategies for selecting appropriate books and using them in the classroom. Duration: 1:06:32.

As part of the Ithaca S+R report When Research is Relational researchers interviewed seven Indigenous Studies (IS) scholars at Northwestern University. Findings indicated that the Library and the University could improve supports for IS scholars in areas of: Interdisciplinary Studies, Making & Maintaining Connections, Collections and Archives and Data, Publishing and Sharing.

Examines the format used to deliver overall library orientation and instruction to this specific group of students and their instructors.

Comments on the limited access First Nations people in British Columbia have to public library services due to administrative, cultural and social barriers.

Argues that current cataloguing practices are inadequate and biased with respect to Indigenous materials and evaluates the Brian Deer Classification and the Mäori Subject Headings.