Ethical Principles for Information Professionals Working in Archives for and about Non-dominant Communities

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Stories of Arizona's Tribal Libraries: An Oral History Project

Work on this important oral history project is underway. Through funding from the Arizona State Library Association, we have been working through the summer to plan and start to implement the initial phase of the project. Sandy Littletree, Knowledge River Program Manager, and I traveled to Prescott, Arizona to talk to the tribal librarians who were convening to plan the 9th Gathering of Arizona Tribal Librarians. Through conversations we decided that developing a pilot project would be important in order to establish our Best Practices and to understand ways to encompass the many questions and requests we will encounter as we approach each Tribal Council with our Project Proposal. After meeting with Rebecca Swift, former librarian at the San Carlos Public Library, we connected with Cruz Salas, former employee of the Bureau of Indian Affiars, who worked with the San Carlos Apache Nation to create their library and then to expand into an actual space. On September 30, 2010, Sandy Littletree, Wanda Davila (Knowledge River Cohort 8), and I drove to Globe and then to San Carlos where we met and collected the stories of the San Carlos Public Library's beginnings told by Cruz Salas and Fred Ferreira, Jr., the San Carlos Apache Nation's Education Director. I am currently editing video segments of the interviews to be included as a DVD in the Project Proposal so that Tribal Councils can see how another library moved through the process. In the proposal, I will include openings for the needed conversations about ownership and dissemination. Stay tuned. (2 Dec. 2010)

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