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Amplifies underrepresented Indigenous perspectives on information policy, highlighting their vital contributions to library and information science knowledge.

Libraries, archives, and other information institutions have historically focused on Western knowledge systems, marginalizing or misappropriating Indigenous ways of knowing. This important book demonstrates how Indigenous information perspectives can and must provide a critical lens for decolonizing or indigenizing these institutions. It helps academics, professionals, and library and information science (LIS) students to rethink and transform existing library and information frameworks, cataloging systems, and epistemologies. Its focus on information policy issues enhances LIS curricula and provides readers with a critical understanding of what equity, diversity, and inclusion looks like when viewed through an indigenizing lens.

Chapters highlight timely topics such as freedom of information, digitization and repatriation of Indigenous resources, Indigenous cultural and intellectual property rights, and Indigenizing or decolonizing libraries and library workforce development.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Glossary of Indigenous Words and Phrases

Introduction

Part I: Foundations
1 Indigenous Identity
2 Colonization
3 Decolonization and Indigenization

Part II: Information Policy and Indigenous Information
4 Freedom of Expression and Access to Information
5 Indigenous Information Ethics
6 Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights

Part III: Embedding Indigenous Perspectives in Information Practice
7 Organizing Indigenous Knowledge
8 Using a Critical Indigenous Lens

Part 4: Indigenous Information, Technology, and the Future
9 Indigenous Knowledge in a Digital World
10 Digitization and Repatriation
11 Controlling and Managing Indigenous Data
12 Future Directions

References
Index

Product details

Published 10 Dec 2026
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Pages 192
ISBN 9798216371694
Imprint Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Spencer Lilley

Spencer Lilley is an Associate Professor of Inform…

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