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Direct linkTaylor, Rhonda Harris; Patterson, Lotsee – Acquisitions Librarian, 2004
This construct for collection development as it relates to Native American resources utilizes Thomas Mann's "Library Research Methods" (1993) concepts of the Traditional Model, the Actual-Practice Model, and the Principle of Least Effort to organize recommendations for both strategies and resources. The three-pronged hierarchical approach to…
Descriptors: Library Research, Research Methodology, American Indians, Library Services
Peer reviewedBiggs, Bonnie – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2000
From the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, Lotsee Patterson (Comanche) successfully lobbied at the national level for legislation and initiatives to improve library programs serving Indian schools and communities and to train Indian librarians. The success of these programs rests in large part on her philosophy that successful tribal libraries depend on…
Descriptors: Advocacy, American Indians, Cultural Maintenance, Federal Aid
Download full textColorado State Library, Denver. – 1993
The Committee on Library Services to Ethnic Populations of the Colorado Council on Library Development was charged with developing a comprehensive plan to address library services for the increasing ethnic/culturally diverse populations in the state of Colorado and with identifying possible funding sources to implement the plan. In addition, the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, American Indians, Asian Americans, Blacks
Burch, John R. – Library Journal, 2002
Provides a history of Native American studies, focusing on Native Americans in North America, and includes an annotated bibliography for library collection development under the headings of reference works, before the Europeans, Indian-White relations, videos, and Web resources. (LRW)
Descriptors: American Indians, Annotated Bibliographies, Library Collection Development, Library Materials
Peer reviewedAmbler, Marjane – Tribal College, 1994
Discusses the role of the emerging tribal libraries, designed to serve as repositories of Native American history and knowledge. Indicates that the tribal libraries and archives have provided a means for recentralizing documents important to Native American history that had previously been moved to distant repositories by outside elements. (MAB)
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indians, Archives, Cultural Background
Oklahoma Univ., Norman. School of Library Science. – 1986
This report describes activities of the program TRAILS (Training and Assistance for Indian Library Services), funded from September 1985 to January 1987 by Title II, Part B of the Higher Education Act, to provide training, guidance, and direction to 506 American Indian tribes and Alaskan Native communities for improvement of public library and…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indians, Improvement Programs, Job Training
Leonard, Gloria; And Others – Library Administration & Management, 1991
Four articles discuss library services to diverse user groups. Highlights include the Seattle Public Library's Human Diversity Training Program for library staff; cultural diversity at the University of Northern Colorado, including library collection development; information needs of physicists in special libraries; and library services to…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, American Indians, Cultural Differences, Higher Education
