"I believe that some of the models that we've developed working with this respectful engagement with terminology can be transferable to the BIPOC communities, to LGBTQIQ communities. It is really about creating those relationships and listening to communities."
Camille Callison
"Metadata captures the relationships between nations, governance, lands, and people [...] It is easy in some ways to talk about something. It is a lot harder to take those concepts and encode them in data and bring them into a system, and into relationship with each other."
Stacy Allison-Cassin
GUEST INSTRUCTORS: Dr. Stacy Allison-Cassin holds a contractually-limited appointment as Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto where she teaches in the Library and Information Studies stream. She is on leave from her position as Associate Librarian, Dept. of Student Learning and Academic Success at York University Libraries. A citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario, Allison-Cassin works on issues related to Indigeneity, libraries and digital culture, with a specific focus on knowledge organization and metadata. Allison-Cassin recently completed her PhD in Humanities at York University. Her dissertation is on love as an information system and utilized the information theory of Niklas Luhmann and psychoanalytic theory to analyze the music of Arcade Fire.
Camille Callison (Tahltan Nation) is a PhD student (Anthropology) and the Indigenous Strategies Librarian at the University of Manitoba. She is a passionate cultural activist who currently serves as the Chair, IFLA Indigenous Matters Section; Secretary, IEEE P2890™ Recommended Practice for Provenance of Indigenous Peoples’ Data; member, National Film Board’s- Indigenous Advisory Group and a member of Canada’s Steering Committee on Archives – Truth & Reconciliation Commission Taskforce. Over the past few years, she has served in many capacities including as a Canadian Federation of Library Associations (CFLA-FCAB) board member; Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee then subsequently Chair/Past Chair of Indigenous Matters Committee and as a Copyright Committee member. Camille was also Vice-Chair, Memory of the World Committee of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, that established Canada’s national program.
READINGS (selected by Camille Callison and Stacy Allison-Cassin)
National Indigenous Knowledge and Language Alliance-Alliance nationale des connaissances et des langues autochtones NIKLA-ANCLA. "First Nations, Metis and Inuit - Indigenous Ontology" https://nationalindigenousknowledgeandlanguagealliance.home.blog/2019/06/21/first-nations-metis-and-inuit-indigenous-ontologies-fnmiio/
Bone, Christine, and Brett Lougheed. Library of Congress Subject Headings Related to Indigenous Peoples: Changing LCSH for Use in a Canadian Archival Context." Cataloguing & Classification Quarterly 56 (1): 83-95. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01639374.2017.1382641
Cherry, Alissa, and Keshav Mukunda. (2015). A Case Study of Indigenous Classification: Revisiting and reviving the Brian Deer Scheme. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 53 (5-6), 548-567. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2015.1008717
Duarte, Marisa Elena., and Miranda Belarde-Lewis. (2015). Imagining: Creating Spaces for Indigenous Ontologies. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 53(5–6), 677–702. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2015.1018396
Littletree, Sandra, Miranda Belarde-Lewis, and Marisa Duarte. “Centering Relationality: A Conceptual Model to Advance Indigenous Knowledge Organization Practices.” Knowledge Organization 47, no. 5 (2020): 410–26. https://doi.org/10.5771/0943-7444-2020-5-410
OPTIONAL
Lougheed, Brett, Ry Moran, and Camille Callison. (2015) Reconciliation through description: Using metadata to realize the vision of the National Research Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 53.5-6, 596-614. https://ocul-uwo.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_UWO/1brq4iv/cdi_crossref_primary_10_1080_01639374_2015_1008718
Doyle, Ann M., Kimberley Lawson, & Sarah Dupont. (2015). Indigenization of Knowledge Organization at the Xwi7xwa Library. Journal of Library and Information Studies 13.2 107-134. https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubclibraryandarchives/494/items/1.0103204
Rigby, Carol. (2015) Nunavut Libraries Online establish Inuit language bibliographic cataloging standards: Promoting Indigenous language using a commercial ILS. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 53.5-6, 615-639. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2015.1008165
PROCEEDINGS
Sorting Libraries Out: Decolonizing Classification & Indigenizing Description, SFU Harbour Centre – March 12-14, 2019
Making Meaning Symposium – University of Alberta February 8 & 9, 2018
In Our Own Words: Decolonising Description in the Library & Archival Community, York University Library and Ryerson University Library June 14 & 15, 2018 https://scbrwiki.library.yorku.ca/in-our-own-words/