Research Catalog

Title

Aboriginal and visible minority librarians : oral histories from Canada / edited by Deborah Lee, Mahalakshmi Kumaran.

Publication

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lee, Deborah, 1954-
• Kumaran, Maha

Description

xix, 231 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• Minority librarians > Canada > Biography
• Minority librarians > Employment > Canada
• Minorities in library science > Canada
• Indigenous peoples > Employment > Canada

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Building libraries one book at a time / Suzy Bear -- Reflections on my experience in Manitoba as a visible minority librarian : a personal perspective and review of future challenges for visible minority librarians / Dr. Ganga B. Dakshinamurti -- Proud to be a Filipino librarian / Erie Maestro -- Challenges and successes of a tribal college librarian / Mary Weasel Fat -- From China to Canada : experiences of a college librarian in the Canadian prairies / Lillian Li -- A Métis librarian autobiography / Jim Bruce -- The Toronto Public Library : a personal reflection on the 2010 diversity initiative / Suzanne Fernando -- Not a Mônîyâw librarian / Jessie Loyer -- Diversity pathways in librarianship : some of the challenges faced and lessons learned as a Canadian-born Chinese male librarian / Allan Cho -- Observations of a new immigrant library professional : career journey from India to Canada via the Netherlands / Arvind Shrivatsava -- Finding the right fit: an aboriginal librarian's quest at Library and Archives Canada / Dale Blake -- Becoming the rhizome : empowering librarians and archivists of colour / Kelly E. Lau -- Indigenous peoples' new canoe / Camille Callison -- A minority librarian's journey : challenges and issues along the way / Aditi Gupta -- Academic inquiries at an aboriginal reference desk during Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission's B.C. National Event / Kim Lawson -- The immigrant librarian : challenges big and small / Maha Kumaran -- The right place at the right time : synchronicity and indigenous librarianship / Deborah Lee -- From recruitment to tenure : a reflection on race and culture in a Canadian academic library / Nora Majekodunmi.

ISBN

• 9781442236813 (pbk.)
• 1442236817 (pbk.)
• 9781442236820 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2014008851

OCLC

• 872620508
• SCSB-12872295

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library