Cataloging & Classification Quarterly· 2015Q2
Imagining: Creating Spaces for Indigenous Ontologies
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Short summary
A decolonizing methodology called 'imagining' offers a path for knowledge organization practitioners to develop alternative information structures that acknowledge Indigenous community-based approaches, addressing historical marginalization of Native American and Indigenous peoples materials.
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Key points
- Cataloging Indigenous materials has been a long-standing challenge for libraries, archives, and museums.
- Colonial practices embedded in standardization and misnaming have marginalized Indigenous peoples' materials.
- The decolonizing methodology of 'imagining' offers a framework for alternative information structures.
- This methodology emphasizes Indigenous community-based approaches to knowledge organization.
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Abstract
For at least half a century, catalogers have struggled with how to catalog and classify Native American and Indigenous peoples materials in library, archive, and museum collections. Understanding how colonialism works can help those in the field of knowledge organization appreciate the power dynamics embedded in the marginalization of Native American and Indigenous peoples materials through standardization, misnaming, and other practices. The decolonizing methodology of imagining provides one way that knowledge organization practitioners and theorists can acknowledge and discern the possibilities of Indigenous community-based approaches to the development of alternative information structures.
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