| Description |
1 online resource (xxxi, 263 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Decolonise or 'decolonise'? / Jess Crilly and Regina Everitt -- Contexts and experiences. Decolonising the library : from personal experience to collective action / a conversation with Hillary Gyebi-Ababio -- Intelligent leaders, intelligent spaces / Regina Everitt -- Decolonising research methodologies / Sara Ewing -- Do Black employees' rights matter? The lived experience of BAME staff in UK academic libraries / Mohammed Ishaq and Asifa Maaria Hussain -- Decolonising the academic library : reservations, fines and renewals / Lurraine Jones and Marcia Wilson -- Critical information literacy and structural oppression : reflecting on challenges and looking forward / Angela Pashia -- In practice. The contribution of library and information science education to decolonising / Briony Birdi -- Indigenising Canadian academic libraries : two librarians' experiences / Rachel Chong and Ashley Edwards -- Liberate the library : what it means to decolonise and why it is necessary / Marilyn Clarke -- Opening spaces for creative and critical enquiry / Alexandra Duncan, Vivienne Eades-Miller and Adam Ramejkis -- Towards decolonising the British Library : a staff-led perspective / Pardaad Chamsaz on behalf of and in collaboration with the British Library BAME Staff Network Decolonisation Working Group -- Cataloguing, classification and critical librarianship at Cambridge University / Cambridge University Decolonising Through Critical Librarianship Group -- Re-membering Kenya : building library infrastructures as decolonial practice / Syokau Mutonga and Angela Okune -- Challenging its imperial origins : towards decolonising SOAS Library / Ludi Price -- Decolonising library collections : contemporary issues, practical steps and examples from London School of Economics / Kevin Wilson -- Afterword: Challenging the narrative of the storyteller / Regina Everitt. |
| Summary |
"The demand to decolonise the curriculum has moved from a protest movement at the margins to the centre of many institutions, as reflected by its inclusion in policies and strategies and numerous initiatives in libraries and archives that have responded to the call, and are critically examining their own historic legacies and practices to support institutional and societal change. Narrative Expansions: Interpreting Decolonisation in Academic Libraries explores the ways in which academic libraries are working to address the historic legacies of colonialism, in the context of decolonising the curriculum and the university. It acknowledges and explores the tensions and complexities around the use of the term decolonisation, how it relates to other social justice aims and approaches, including critical librarianship, and what makes this work specific to decolonisation. The book is international in scope, and considers the contextual nature of decolonisation, with discussion of the impacts of settler colonialism, and post-colonial contexts with authors from Canada, the United States and Kenya, as well as universities in the UK. Split into two sections, the book first addresses experiential contexts, discussing the environment in which the academic library is enmeshed: legacy knowledge systems, the neo-liberal university, the pervasive Whiteness of the higher education sector, the global publishing industry - how these structures are constitutive of coloniality and how they can be challenged. It then brings together theory and practice featuring case studies interpreting what it means to 'decolonise' in information literacy, collection management, inclusive spaces, LIS education, research methods and knowledge production through the lens of critical pedagogy, critical information literacy and Critical Race Theory (CRT). The book also addresses the impact and implications of the Whiteness of university library staffing. Bringing together the theory and practice of an area of critical concern to the academy, this book is an important reference for academic librarians, educators and researchers in LIS, education and sociology."-- ProQuest Ebook Central resource page, viewed January 5, 2023. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Academic libraries -- Administration.
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Academic libraries -- Administration -- Employee participation.
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Minority library employees.
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Libraries and minorities.
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Libraries and Indigenous peoples.
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Decolonization.
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Academic libraries -- Administration |
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Academic libraries -- Administration -- Employee participation |
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Libraries and Indigenous peoples |
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Libraries and minorities |
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Minority library employees |
| Added Author |
Crilly, Jess, editor.
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Everitt, Regina, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Narrative expansions. London : Facet Publishing, 2022 9781783304981 (OCoLC)1272893125 |
| ISBN |
9781783305216 (electronic book : epub) |
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1783305215 (electronic book : epub) |
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9781783304998 (electronic book : PDF) |
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1783304995 (electronic book : PDF) |
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1783304987 (hardcover) |
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9781783304981 (hardcover) |
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1783304979 (paperback) |
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9781783304974 (paperback) |
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