Research Catalog

Title

The collector and the collected : decolonizing area studies librarianship / editors, Megan Browndorf, Erin Pappas, Anna Arays.

Publication

• Sacramento, CA : Library Juice Press, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Browndorf, Megan
• Pappas, Erin
• Arays, Anna

Description

viii, 316 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"Explores the paradigm of "area studies" - a way of supporting regionally-focused collecting, processing, and liaison work - in the academic library, through an explicitly anti-colonial lens"--

Alternative Title

Decolonizing area studies librarianship

Subject

• Libraries > Special collections > Area studies
• Libraries and Indigenous peoples
• Academic libraries > Collection development
• Academic libraries > Social aspects
• Area specialist librarians
• Decolonization
• Academic libraries > Collection development
• Area specialist librarians
• Decolonization
• Libraries > Special collections > Area studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. 1: challenging theories of curatorship and stewardship -- Collections are our relatives: disrupting the singular, white man's joy that shaped collections / Jessie Loyer -- Acknowledging indigenous nationhood, sovereignties: a library's obligation / Desmond Wong -- Tracing a cosmopolitan subject: dislocation and haunting in the Southeast Asian archive / Judith Henchy -- Pt. 2: center and periphery -- The empire in the stacks: colonialist and orientalist legacies in the Turkish and Turkic collections of the British Library / Michael Erdman -- Unpacking the other's library: Latin American book collectors and US research libraries / Jose Guerrero -- Reconstructing "the ladder of languages" in 21st century research libraries: the elision of the North Caucasus in western scholarship and collection development / Kit Condill -- Pt. 3: evaluating practice -- Loosening the grip of imperialism and white supremacy in Hmong studies: the role of area studies librarianship / Maij Xyooj -- Decolonizing classification and subject headings in the Richard Flores Taitano Micronesian Area Research Center (MARC) / Wai Yi Ma -- Indonesian case studies in decolonization / Zoë McLaughlin -- Human rights-based instruction in the library classroom / Melissa Gasparotto.

ISBN

• 9781634000901
• 1634000900

LCCN

2021047500

OCLC

• on1287746772
• 1287746772
• SCSB-14062295

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library