"There was a time when there was just a few Native people known for a connection with libraries. I used to think there was one person 20 years older than me, there was one person 10 years older than me, and there were three of us around the same age. There were so few of us that a lot of people called us by the same name...Finally, I was getting tired of it, and I said I'm not Lisa, she's Mohawk, I'm Anishinabe. I tried to help people understand there was difference...We're building our critical mass of Native librarians. We don't have capacity yet, but it's getting there. I think it's starting to shift."
-Loriene Roy
GUEST INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Loriene Roy is Anishinabe, enrolled on the White Earth Reservation, and is a member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. She has had a long-standing career as a faculty member at the School of Information at the University of Texas-Austin – where she has joint appointments at the College of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction, the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, and the Native American and Indigenous Studies Program. She was the President of the American Indian Library Association (AILA) from 1997-1998 and she was the 2007-2008 President of the American Library Association (ALA). She is the first Indigenous President of the ALA. Through her work she seeks to develop and promote library services and cultural heritage initiatives with and for Indigenous populations, public libraries, and measurement and evaluation of library services.
READINGS (selected by Loriene Roy)
Andrews, Nicola. “Reflections on Resistance, Decolonization, and the Historical Trauma of Libraries and Academia.” In Maura Seale & Karen Nicholson, eds., The Politics of Theory and the Practice of Critical Librarianship (Sacramento, CA: Library Juice, 2018), 181-192. [preprint]
Burns, Kathleen, Doyle, Ann, Joseph, Gene, and Krebs, Allison. “Indigenous Librarianship.” In Marcia J. Bates and Mary Niles Maack, eds., Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences (3rd ed.) (New York: Taylor & Francis, 2010), 2330–2346.
Nakata, Martin. “Indigenous Knowledge and the Cultural Interface: Underlying Issues at the Intersection of Knowledge and Information Systems.” IFLA Journal 28, nos. 5-6 (2002): 281-91. https://doi.org/10.1177/034003520202800513
Roy, Loriene. “Advancing an Indigenous Ecology within LIS Education,” Library Trends 64 (2) (Fall 2015): 384-414. Available at: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/158312908.pdf
Roy, Loriene. “Leading a Fulfilled Life as an Indigenous Academic,” AlterNative 10 (3) (2014): 303-310. https://doi.org/10.1177/117718011401000308
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Roy, Loriene, and Ciaran B. Trace. (2016). Preparing Entry-level Information Professionals for Work with and for Indigenous Peoples. In C. Callison, L. Roy & G. A. LeCheminant (Eds.) Indigenous Notions of Ownership and Libraries, Archives and Museums (pp. 157-178). Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG.
Roy, Loriene. “Indigenous Cultural Heritage Preservation: A Review Essay with Ideas for the Future.” IFLA Journal 41, no. 3 (October 2015): 192–203. https://doi.org/10.1177/0340035215597236.
Roy, Loriene, Anjali Bhasin, and Sarah K. Arriaga, eds. Tribal libraries, archives, and museums: Preserving our language, memory, and lifeways. Scarecrow Press, 2011.
Roy, Loriene, and Kristen Hogan. (2010). "We collect, organize, preserve, and provide access, with respect: Indigenous peoples’ cultural life in libraries. In J.B. Edwards & S. P. Edwards (Eds.) Beyond Article 10: Libraries and Social and Cultural Rights (pp. 113-148). Duluth: Litwin Books.