| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 316 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Challenging theories of curatorship and stewardship -- Collections are our relatives: disrupting the singular, white man's joy that shaped collections / Jessie Loyer -- Acknowledging Indigenous nationhood, sovereignties: a library's obligation / Desmond Wong -- Tracing a cosmopolitan subject: dislocation and haunting in the Southeast Asian archive / Judith Henchy -- Center and periphery -- The empire in the stacks: colonialist and orientalist legacies in the Turkish and Turkic collections of the British Library / Michael Erdman -- Unpacking the other's library: Latin American book collectors and US research libraries / Jose Guerrero -- Reconstructing "the ladder of languages" in 21st century research libraries: the elision of the North Caucasus in western scholarship and collection development / Kit Condill -- Evaluating practice -- Loosening the grip of imperialism and white supremacy in Hmong studies: the role of area studies librarianship / Maij Xyooj -- Decolonizing classification and subject headings in the Richard Flores Taitano Micronesian Area Research Center (MARC) / Wai Yi Ma -- Indonesian case studies in decolonization / Zoë McLaughlin -- Human rights-based instruction in the library classroom / Melissa Gasparotto |
| Summary |
"Explores the paradigm of "area studies" - a way of supporting regionally-focused collecting, processing, and liaison work - in the academic library, through an explicitly anti-colonial lens"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Libraries -- Special collections -- Area studies.
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Libraries and Indigenous peoples.
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Academic libraries -- Collection development.
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Academic libraries -- Social aspects
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Area specialist librarians.
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Decolonization.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Browndorf, Megan, editor.
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Pappas, Erin, editor.
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Arays, Anna, editor.
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| ISBN |
163400163X |
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9781634001632 |
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