Representation of indigenous cultures: considering the Hawaiian hula

Hajibayova, Lala; Buente, Wayne

doi:10.1108/jd-01-2017-0010

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“…Patrick Wilson explains the professional role is an outcome of education, traditions of the profession, its ideas, and expectations 15 . But the researchers of academic librarians related their roles to their work tasks, information services function and status 16 . Sometimes the functions in this context are understood widely, e.g., as educational, cultural, research, recreational, informational, and bibliographic, but sometimes they are as narrow as providing library services 17 , managing a collection or training information literacy skills 18 .…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Roles of Local Information Professionals of the Thai Provincial University Libraries

Nonthacumjane

2021

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This paper aims to investigate the roles of information professionals in local information departments. These roles were identified by interviewing the members of the Local Information Working Group of the Provincial University Library Network (PULINET) in Thailand. This study applied qualitative research methods, including the 23 interviews of the Local Information Working Group members and a qualitative observation. The need for investigation of the roles as perceived by local information professionals was prompted by the placement of local information departments in the provincial university libraries, which is different from the Western countries where similar work is carried out in public libraries. The activity theory was applied to understand the roles of these professionals as emerging within their community through the division of labor, norms as expressed in responsibilities, and actions as expressed in functions of local information professionals. The study has revealed eight professional roles including manager, curator, service provider, promoter, researcher, collaborator, learner, and educator that overlap with the roles identified in the library research of other countries. The study included a specific group of respondents – the members of a working group of the Thai provincial university library network. This group consists of the representatives of all Thai provincial university libraries and is producing the recommendations and standards for local information work, works with competence development and develops common local information resources. Thus, the results of interviews with its members are both limited to this group, but also can be generalized to a wider professional community of provincial university librarians.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Roles of Local Information Professionals of the Thai Provincial University Libraries

Nonthacumjane

2021

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“…There is a growing body of literature on indigenous knowledge organization (Adler, 2016; Duarte & Belarde‐Lewis, 2015; Doyle, 2013; Green, 2015; Lilley, 2015; Littletree & Metoyer, 2015; Lee, 2011; Montenegro, 2019; Hajibayova, Buente, Quiroga, & Valeho‐Novikoff, 2016; Hajibayova & Buente, 2017; Kam, 2007; Webster & Doyle, 2008). Green (2015) argues that the complicated relationship between mainstream perspectives and indigenous perspectives are difficult to untangled, resulting in KOS such as DDC to be misunderstood or truly biased.…”

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“…Green (2015) argues that the complicated relationship between mainstream perspectives and indigenous perspectives are difficult to untangled, resulting in KOS such as DDC to be misunderstood or truly biased. Despite efforts in expanding DDC as described in Green (2015), how mainstream KOS such as LCSH, DCC, or the Library of Congress Classifications (LCC) can be skewed in describing minority groups have been manifested in Hajibayova et al (2016) and Hajibayova and Buente (2017). The authors investigate the topic of Hawaiian Hula and found that these KOS depict Hula dance as a strand of folk dance, rather than what indigenous peoples consider to be a “sacred celebration.”…”

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“…Over the years, information science professionals have been studying biases in bibliographic classifications and Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS). The robustness of classifications has been examined in diverse measures, ranging from the representation of race (Higgins, 2016), gender (Olson, 2003), ethnic minorities (Hajibayova & Buente, 2017), to indigenous peoples (Littletree & Metoyer, 2015). Many have concluded that bibliographic classifications such as the Dewey Decimal Classification, Library of Congress Subject headings, or similar, are susceptible to a systematic bias of a dominant, euro‐centric perspective (Adler, 2016; Kam, 2007; Lilley, 2015; Olson, 2003; Webster & Doyle, 2008).…”

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Reconciling taxonomies of electoral constituencies and recognized tribes of indigenous Taiwan

Cheng

Ludäscher

2020

Proc Assoc Inf Sci Technol

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Over the years, information science professionals have been studying biases in Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS), for example, bibliographic classifications. The robustness of classifications has been examined in diverse measures, ranging from the representation of race, gender, ethnic minorities, to indigenous peoples. In this study, we aim at (a) uncovering implicit assumptions about minorities in everyday taxonomies; (b) comparing and reconciling these different taxonomies. Specifically, we study the use case of Taiwanese Indigenous Peoples' tribe classifications and the indigenous constituencies of the legislature electoral representation. We compare four finer‐grained taxonomies for indigenous people with the coarse‐grained indigenous peoples' electoral constituencies that only recognize two regions (Lowland, Highland). The four taxonomies are: the recognized tribes in the past, the recognized tribes in the present, other possible tribes, and re‐scaled groups based on population. We employ a logic‐based taxonomy alignment approach using Region Connection Calculus (RCC‐5) relations to align these taxonomies. Our results show different options when modeling and interpreting the use case of Indigenous Taiwan constituencies, and also demonstrate that multiple perspectives can be preserved and co‐exist in our merged taxonomic representations.

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“…Cataloging practices that physically place tribal creation stories next to fairy tales rather than with other world religions reflects prejudiced structures in library practices (Kostelecky et al, 2017). This problematic classification and organization of library resources further embeds misinformation about Indigenous peoples, history, and culture within libraries (Aase, 2017;Hajibayova & Buente, 2017).…”

Section: Indigenous Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Sharing Community Created Content in Support of Social Justice: The Dakota Access Pipeline LibGuide

Kostelecky

2018

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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INTRODUCTION Using a known platform to share content that is often overlooked by scholarly communication networks, The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) LibGuide from the University of New Mexico Libraries facilitates access to Native American perspectives on the #NODAPL movement through inclusion of social media content and primary source materials. This LibGuide highlights Native American voices and stories, content that is difficult for people outside Native American communities to find, and shares a different view of the protest movement absent from most mainstream media coverage. DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT Rather than a comprehensive listing, a majority of the guide content comes from Native American media outlets and Native American-authored social media accounts instead of library resources behind paywalls. Mainstream and alternative media sources are included if authored by a Native American or if the source features a named individual sharing firsthand accounts. The DAPL LibGuide is the most viewed guide at UNM and was replicated at a small number of other academic libraries. NEXT STEPS Libraries can support the democratic process by highlighting similar types of community-created content shared outside of traditional scholarly communication networks, giving space to voices regularly disregarded. The DAPL guide may be considered, along with similar social justice and topical guides, as the beginning of a new model for information dissemination in libraries which reimagines the possibilities of the LibGuide resource.

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Representation of indigenous cultures: considering the Hawaiian hula

Cited by 19 publications

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Roles of Local Information Professionals of the Thai Provincial University Libraries

Roles of Local Information Professionals of the Thai Provincial University Libraries

Reconciling taxonomies of electoral constituencies and recognized tribes of indigenous Taiwan

Sharing Community Created Content in Support of Social Justice: The Dakota Access Pipeline LibGuide

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