Abstract:Community residents conceive of their health and wellness priorities and concerns differently based on cultural and socioeconomic characteristics. As public libraries adopt health literacy programs to facilitate better access to information, they also need to align their programs and services to reflect the aspirations and concerns of the more marginalized members of their communities. This article describes how a team of Rutgers University librarians, scholars, and students worked with public librarians in three adjacent communities to investigate underlying conditions that shape how different populations approach health and wellness. Over several years, the research team listened to local citizens talk about their aspirations and concerns. Using tools developed by the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation with the American Library Association and the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, the team set a goal to understand how libraries might strengthen their relationships and engagement with diverse communities concerning health and wellness. Their findings revealed that upper-middle-class residents in one town were more likely to use the local library to stay informed about health literacy, relying on the strength of “weak ties,” while tightly bonded African American residents in a bordering town, along with Latino immigrants in a third neighboring community, depended more on strong personal ties to inform their health and wellness decisions. They concluded that librarians will need to build trust and engage more deeply with these marginalized populations if they are to bolster the health and wellness of these members of their communities.
{"title":"Health Literacy in Diverse Communities: The Strength of Weak Ties—An Exploration between Academic Researchers and Public Libraries in Central New Jersey","authors":"N. Kranich","doi":"10.1353/lib.2020.0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2020.0044","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Community residents conceive of their health and wellness priorities and concerns differently based on cultural and socioeconomic characteristics. As public libraries adopt health literacy programs to facilitate better access to information, they also need to align their programs and services to reflect the aspirations and concerns of the more marginalized members of their communities. This article describes how a team of Rutgers University librarians, scholars, and students worked with public librarians in three adjacent communities to investigate underlying conditions that shape how different populations approach health and wellness. Over several years, the research team listened to local citizens talk about their aspirations and concerns. Using tools developed by the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation with the American Library Association and the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, the team set a goal to understand how libraries might strengthen their relationships and engagement with diverse communities concerning health and wellness. Their findings revealed that upper-middle-class residents in one town were more likely to use the local library to stay informed about health literacy, relying on the strength of “weak ties,” while tightly bonded African American residents in a bordering town, along with Latino immigrants in a third neighboring community, depended more on strong personal ties to inform their health and wellness decisions. They concluded that librarians will need to build trust and engage more deeply with these marginalized populations if they are to bolster the health and wellness of these members of their communities.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49058713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In November 2018, the New University of Lisbon, Portugal (NOVA FCSH) and the Municipality of Lisbon entered into a partnership with the intention of developing participatory researching practices related to the Lisbon Public Libraries’ network (BLX). One partnership developed through the use of a World Café—an initiative of BLX in conjunction with the Master of Information Curation and Management program at NOVA FCSH during 2019. In a review of initial outcomes, this article discusses the alignment of organizational strategies and academic research in the processes of gathering evidence for and generating advocacy toward a new library service model—Alcântara—based on a collaborative relationship between librarians and communities. This new service model aims to implement the Strategic Program Library XXI (2012), which was created by the Municipality of Lisbon. An integrated management approach was used, aligning three dimensions: a library vision for the community needs, the participation and involvement of some of the local stakeholders in an Alcântara World Café, and the library and information services (LIS) strategic analysis with students’ contributions for the discussion and coevaluation methods. The study recognizes the importance of trust, mutual respect, compromise, shared decision making, and reciprocity in planning and setting priorities among partners.
摘要：2018年11月，葡萄牙里斯本新大学（NOVA FCSH）和里斯本市政府建立了合作伙伴关系，旨在发展与里斯本公共图书馆网络（BLX）相关的参与式研究实践。2019年，BLX与NOVA FCSH的信息控制和管理硕士项目共同发起了“世界咖啡馆”项目，从而建立了一个合作伙伴关系。在对初步成果的回顾中，本文讨论了在收集证据和倡导基于图书馆员和社区之间合作关系的新图书馆服务模式Alcântara的过程中，组织战略和学术研究的一致性。这一新的服务模式旨在实施里斯本市创建的第二十一届图书馆战略计划（2012年）。采用了综合管理方法，调整了三个维度：满足社区需求的图书馆愿景、Alcântara World Café的一些当地利益相关者的参与和参与，以及图书馆和信息服务（LIS）战略分析与学生对讨论和共同评估方法的贡献。该研究认识到，在规划和设定合作伙伴之间的优先事项时，信任、相互尊重、妥协、共同决策和互惠的重要性。
{"title":"Alcântara World Café: Lisbon Public Libraries Network and NOVA University Partnership within Communities’ Processes of Participation","authors":"P. Ochôa, Paulo Silva, Susana Silvestre","doi":"10.1353/lib.2020.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2020.0047","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In November 2018, the New University of Lisbon, Portugal (NOVA FCSH) and the Municipality of Lisbon entered into a partnership with the intention of developing participatory researching practices related to the Lisbon Public Libraries’ network (BLX). One partnership developed through the use of a World Café—an initiative of BLX in conjunction with the Master of Information Curation and Management program at NOVA FCSH during 2019. In a review of initial outcomes, this article discusses the alignment of organizational strategies and academic research in the processes of gathering evidence for and generating advocacy toward a new library service model—Alcântara—based on a collaborative relationship between librarians and communities. This new service model aims to implement the Strategic Program Library XXI (2012), which was created by the Municipality of Lisbon. An integrated management approach was used, aligning three dimensions: a library vision for the community needs, the participation and involvement of some of the local stakeholders in an Alcântara World Café, and the library and information services (LIS) strategic analysis with students’ contributions for the discussion and coevaluation methods. The study recognizes the importance of trust, mutual respect, compromise, shared decision making, and reciprocity in planning and setting priorities among partners.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/lib.2020.0047","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44054395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article lays out the mechanics of a complex partnership between large, research-oriented, U.S.-based universities and the National Library of Kosovo, the nation’s largest public library that is also charged with establishing nationwide library policies. The goal of this partnership is to create two interconnected but distinct programs: the nation’s first bachelor’s program in library studies at the University of Pristina and a National Library Training Program intended to train current professionals and provide continuing education opportunities. This partnership case highlights the complex positionality of the library as a public institution, both as an educational entity with responsibilities to disseminate information and teach literacies, but also as an institution that is political in position, as a cultural producer and modeler of social discourse. The project highlights the inherent dangers involved when U.S.-based institutions enter foreign lands to develop library infrastructure from potentially univocal standpoints. The article then proposes critical and postcolonial theoretical approaches as a way to interrogate the power imbalances that might arise from library partnerships of this type. The hope is that this case highlights the problematic nature of partnerships between academic institutions and public library spaces, whether they be international or domestic in nature.
{"title":"Postwar Politics and Postcolonial Approaches: Rebuilding a Library and Information Science Program for Kosovo","authors":"Robert D. Montoya","doi":"10.1353/lib.2020.0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2020.0048","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article lays out the mechanics of a complex partnership between large, research-oriented, U.S.-based universities and the National Library of Kosovo, the nation’s largest public library that is also charged with establishing nationwide library policies. The goal of this partnership is to create two interconnected but distinct programs: the nation’s first bachelor’s program in library studies at the University of Pristina and a National Library Training Program intended to train current professionals and provide continuing education opportunities. This partnership case highlights the complex positionality of the library as a public institution, both as an educational entity with responsibilities to disseminate information and teach literacies, but also as an institution that is political in position, as a cultural producer and modeler of social discourse. The project highlights the inherent dangers involved when U.S.-based institutions enter foreign lands to develop library infrastructure from potentially univocal standpoints. The article then proposes critical and postcolonial theoretical approaches as a way to interrogate the power imbalances that might arise from library partnerships of this type. The hope is that this case highlights the problematic nature of partnerships between academic institutions and public library spaces, whether they be international or domestic in nature.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/lib.2020.0048","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47748684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Mardis, F. R. Jones, Curtis S. Tenney, Zoë Leonarczyk
Abstract:Vulnerable rural residents rely on public librarians for catastrophic weather support; however, many disaster policies are incomplete, outdated, or nonexistent, leaving public librarians with little more than their lived experiences to determine needed actions. Complicating matters further, many public librarians must prioritize community service over their personal needs like damaged homes and nonfunctioning utilities. In this study, researchers and public librarians co-constructed knowledge about library activities before, during, and after Hurricane Michael in 2018. In a heuristic inquiry across three case studies, researchers and participants reflected on actions, perceptions, and outcomes. This process enabled public librarians to realize that before Hurricane Michael, though they had received little communication or direction from municipal leaders, their outreach efforts effectively aided community preparedness. Public librarians noted that even with a limited communications infrastructure (e.g., lack of internet connectivity, fax machines, and cellular service) and hindering bureaucratic requirements, they identified, designed, and provided missing services to high-need communities. Participants saw that reestablishing library functions after the storm superseded their personal needs and updating library disaster policies. The study findings and research method offer researchers and practitioners collaborative ways to capture learning from stressful situations and improve community disaster resiliency.
{"title":"Category 4: Constructing Knowledge about Public Librarians’ Roles in Natural Disasters: A Heuristic Inquiry into Community Resiliency in Florida’s Hurricane Michael","authors":"M. Mardis, F. R. Jones, Curtis S. Tenney, Zoë Leonarczyk","doi":"10.1353/lib.2020.0046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2020.0046","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Vulnerable rural residents rely on public librarians for catastrophic weather support; however, many disaster policies are incomplete, outdated, or nonexistent, leaving public librarians with little more than their lived experiences to determine needed actions. Complicating matters further, many public librarians must prioritize community service over their personal needs like damaged homes and nonfunctioning utilities. In this study, researchers and public librarians co-constructed knowledge about library activities before, during, and after Hurricane Michael in 2018. In a heuristic inquiry across three case studies, researchers and participants reflected on actions, perceptions, and outcomes. This process enabled public librarians to realize that before Hurricane Michael, though they had received little communication or direction from municipal leaders, their outreach efforts effectively aided community preparedness. Public librarians noted that even with a limited communications infrastructure (e.g., lack of internet connectivity, fax machines, and cellular service) and hindering bureaucratic requirements, they identified, designed, and provided missing services to high-need communities. Participants saw that reestablishing library functions after the storm superseded their personal needs and updating library disaster policies. The study findings and research method offer researchers and practitioners collaborative ways to capture learning from stressful situations and improve community disaster resiliency.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/lib.2020.0046","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44458982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:For over a decade, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) has offered some variation of the Community Workshop Series (CWS), a partnership to provide digital literacy and computer technology classes to community members at local public libraries. Both authors have served as coordinators of the program as library science graduate students at the UNC School of Information and Library Science. We situate this program within existing literature on digital and information literacy, community engagement, and the graduate student experience to show the utility of this program and similar programs for training graduate students, enhancing the graduate student experience, supporting the needs of community members, and bolstering the capacities of public libraries. The authors provide an overview of the program and encourage others to start similar programs. To this end, the authors present a case study of the CWS, including discussion of creating the program and keeping things going, and provide a how-to guide for creating your own. The authors identify four recommendations for creating a similar program to clearly delineate takeaways that might inform readers’ attempts to create similar programs, and they provide additional materials and documentation in appendices to support the creation of new community-engaged programs in LIS.
{"title":"The Community Workshop Series: A Case Study for Community-Engaged Learning in LIS","authors":"Matthew Johnson, Matthew Weirick Meggie Lasher","doi":"10.1353/lib.2020.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2020.0045","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:For over a decade, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) has offered some variation of the Community Workshop Series (CWS), a partnership to provide digital literacy and computer technology classes to community members at local public libraries. Both authors have served as coordinators of the program as library science graduate students at the UNC School of Information and Library Science. We situate this program within existing literature on digital and information literacy, community engagement, and the graduate student experience to show the utility of this program and similar programs for training graduate students, enhancing the graduate student experience, supporting the needs of community members, and bolstering the capacities of public libraries. The authors provide an overview of the program and encourage others to start similar programs. To this end, the authors present a case study of the CWS, including discussion of creating the program and keeping things going, and provide a how-to guide for creating your own. The authors identify four recommendations for creating a similar program to clearly delineate takeaways that might inform readers’ attempts to create similar programs, and they provide additional materials and documentation in appendices to support the creation of new community-engaged programs in LIS.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44272497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Archives and libraries have expanded their curatorial capabilities with digital technologies and social media. Digital repositories, content management systems, and social media are part of a dual strategy for curating digital collections, combining the digital preservation of media and community participation in preserving community memory, cultural heritage, and thematic research collections. Socialized digital curation (SoDC) represents the convergence of digital and social curation approaches in a broader framework of relationships across the curation spaces (or functional frameworks) holding the pieces—curators, communities, collections, and technologies—together. Social purposing is evident as curators develop relationships with diverse communities. The cultural, generational, and professional diversity of archivist, librarian, and participant-curator (ALPC) communities further contributes to diversity in collection themes, choice of technologies, and knowledge organization preferences. The growth of digital content and collaborative activity on the Internet, however, has raised concerns about the discoverability of digital content in a fragmented Internet environment, necessitating three curatorial interventions—interlinking, knowledge organization, and documentation—to join disconnected and uninteroperable fragments. The conceptual framework presented in this study focuses on the interrelationships among curators, collections, technologies, and practices. There are no monolithic solutions to curatorial interventions and approaches to SoDC, as all archives and special collections are unique.
{"title":"Functional Frameworks for Socialized Digital Curation: Curatorial Interventions and Curation Spaces in Archives and Libraries","authors":"A. Sabharwal","doi":"10.1353/lib.2021.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2021.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Archives and libraries have expanded their curatorial capabilities with digital technologies and social media. Digital repositories, content management systems, and social media are part of a dual strategy for curating digital collections, combining the digital preservation of media and community participation in preserving community memory, cultural heritage, and thematic research collections. Socialized digital curation (SoDC) represents the convergence of digital and social curation approaches in a broader framework of relationships across the curation spaces (or functional frameworks) holding the pieces—curators, communities, collections, and technologies—together. Social purposing is evident as curators develop relationships with diverse communities. The cultural, generational, and professional diversity of archivist, librarian, and participant-curator (ALPC) communities further contributes to diversity in collection themes, choice of technologies, and knowledge organization preferences. The growth of digital content and collaborative activity on the Internet, however, has raised concerns about the discoverability of digital content in a fragmented Internet environment, necessitating three curatorial interventions—interlinking, knowledge organization, and documentation—to join disconnected and uninteroperable fragments. The conceptual framework presented in this study focuses on the interrelationships among curators, collections, technologies, and practices. There are no monolithic solutions to curatorial interventions and approaches to SoDC, as all archives and special collections are unique.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/lib.2021.0009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42810151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article shares a practice of using digital images to create patterns for embroidery with aspects of information literacy within makerspaces. The author shares her enjoyment of a fiber art practice born of using digital images to create fiber art patterns from rare illuminated manuscripts. The author suggests that because images from these manuscripts are often considered hidden images, offering a program for pattern design will increase research discovery and opportunities for scholarship. This autoethnography offers one librarian’s experience using digital images from rare illuminated manuscripts and the ancient embroidery technique laid work to create colorful fiber copies of musical instruments and musicians for her art piece “The Medieval Screen.” Laid work is documented from the famous Bayeux Tapestry, and fiber copies of hidden images are one vibrant way to display forgotten images. The author asks if there will be a significant increase in downloads and views of historical digital images from offering makerspaces to teach this method combined with information literacy.
{"title":"Makerspaces: Combining Information Literacy with Pattern Design for Fiber Art through Digital Images","authors":"Julie D. Carmen","doi":"10.1353/lib.2021.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2021.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article shares a practice of using digital images to create patterns for embroidery with aspects of information literacy within makerspaces. The author shares her enjoyment of a fiber art practice born of using digital images to create fiber art patterns from rare illuminated manuscripts. The author suggests that because images from these manuscripts are often considered hidden images, offering a program for pattern design will increase research discovery and opportunities for scholarship. This autoethnography offers one librarian’s experience using digital images from rare illuminated manuscripts and the ancient embroidery technique laid work to create colorful fiber copies of musical instruments and musicians for her art piece “The Medieval Screen.” Laid work is documented from the famous Bayeux Tapestry, and fiber copies of hidden images are one vibrant way to display forgotten images. The author asks if there will be a significant increase in downloads and views of historical digital images from offering makerspaces to teach this method combined with information literacy.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/lib.2021.0005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46130823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article analyzes two documentary tasks, planning for the future and preserving the past, within and across multiple domains in everyday life. Data come from interviews with forty-seven Canadian participants and photographs of their tools and documents. Both tasks support multiple everyday life domains (e.g., family, work, community), their associated social roles (e.g., father, employee, volunteer), and functional roles that transcend domains and their associated communities (e.g., maintainer—of a car, of one’s health, or of a social or family relationship). Planning for the future supports documenting what to do and when, where, and how to do it, but also how to be and how to be in relationship with others. Preserving the past supports documenting accountable truths and commemorating a meaningful past. It involves both recording past events and archiving and curating objects of documentary significance. Taking a sociocultural approach to the analysis of tasks reveals three themes about everyday life as a context for documentary practices: everyday life is not unitary, different domains reflect different conditions and communities, and past- and future-focused tasks are not clearly demarcated.
{"title":"Documentary Tasks in the Context of Everyday Life","authors":"Pamela J. McKenzie, Elisabeth Davies","doi":"10.1353/lib.2021.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2021.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article analyzes two documentary tasks, planning for the future and preserving the past, within and across multiple domains in everyday life. Data come from interviews with forty-seven Canadian participants and photographs of their tools and documents. Both tasks support multiple everyday life domains (e.g., family, work, community), their associated social roles (e.g., father, employee, volunteer), and functional roles that transcend domains and their associated communities (e.g., maintainer—of a car, of one’s health, or of a social or family relationship). Planning for the future supports documenting what to do and when, where, and how to do it, but also how to be and how to be in relationship with others. Preserving the past supports documenting accountable truths and commemorating a meaningful past. It involves both recording past events and archiving and curating objects of documentary significance. Taking a sociocultural approach to the analysis of tasks reveals three themes about everyday life as a context for documentary practices: everyday life is not unitary, different domains reflect different conditions and communities, and past- and future-focused tasks are not clearly demarcated.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2021-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/lib.2021.0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47220925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Olukemi A. Olatunde O. Fadehan, Olukemi A. Olatunde O. Barber
Abstract:This article investigates the tracing and documentation of genealogies among the Yoruba of Southwest Nigeria using the semiological mechanism of tribal-facial marks. The study lends itself to qualitative research methods and called for the involvement of memory institutions (libraries, archives, and museums). A purposive sampling method, including a combination of focus group interviews and semistructured individual interviews, was deployed in the selection of four categories of participants. Data obtained were transcribed and analyzed using the recursive abstraction technique. The study established the indigenous practice of using indelible facial marks as a form of documentation and tracing of lineages and subethnic groups among the Yoruba. Although they are an endangered species, this study highlights some traditional methods of documentation and justifies a change in the narrative by advocating for an intensification of formalized documentation of the art vis-à-vis relevance to lineage and subethnic genealogies and situating the role of memory institutions in the project. Recommendations include intensive information harvesting and documentation enabled by the development of an active information policy that will take into cognizance various genres of indigenous knowledge systems, including tribal-facial marking systems, as a tool of genealogy.
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Abstract:Collective intelligence occurs when a group of users pool the result of their research and their shared information in a wiki-like online space. In this case, a LibGuide with many users provides information for a tree tour on a community college campus where students and community members in a group contribute both informational facts and creative writing, poetry, and cultural data about the trees and plants. The trees represent one collection, while the online space has become another bottom-up-led collection created collaboratively with the emphasis on promoting sustainability in the form of economics, environment, and equity. Tree Campus is a project started at Shoreline Community College to encourage the community to engage with sustainability themes from an arts, humanities, and scientific perspective by taking tours on campus to view the plants and trees. Many of the flora are native to the Seattle area and meaningful to Native American cultures, which is communicated through the online LibGuides created and maintained by students in the Shoreline Community College Economics Research Group (SCCERG) and supported by the Sustainable Commuter Options Fee (SCOF) committee.
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