This recorded presentation describes a project to train librarians to create subject headings for Indigenous nations. It also reports on the creation of a set of best practices based on feedback from participants in the project.
Lamprey eel harvesting has systematically and periodically occurred along the Siletz River and its tributaries for as many as hundreds, or thousands, or tens of thousands of years that human families and lamprey eel populations have coexisted in the Siletz Valley ecosystem. Historical, cultural, and biological information for the twentieth...
This manual provides guidance on creating subject heading proposals for Indigenous topics that can be submitted to the Subject Authority Cooperative Program (SACO) for addition to the Library of Congress Subject Headings.
This Guidebook follows a holistic approach to adaptation planning called community-driven climate resilience planning. Community-driven climate resilience planning is “the process by which residents of vulnerable and impacted communities define for themselves the complex climate challenges they face, and the climate solutions most relevant to their unique assets and threats.”...
This presentation focuses on an Oregon State University Libraries and Press (OSULP) project to propose subject headings for tribes with traditional territories in Oregon. Participants will learn strategies to approach cataloging Indigenous groups and the nuances in this work.
Catalogers can create subject headings on topics related to the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. This presentation, given at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, focuses on two examples: preparing subject heading proposals for indigenous peoples of Oregon and for crops which are nutrient dense and economically sustainable.
In 2017, Oregon State University embarked on a project to ensure that
library resources about Oregon Indian tribes are discoverable in
online systems. With a focus on subject access in its local catalog
and in OCLC’s WorldCat database, this ongoing project is comprised of
two main components.
First, because not...
"Originally printed in the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, Jahrgang 1924, Heft 1-4"--Preface.
"The tribes which are the most fully described in these notes are the Snohomish, the Snuqualmi and the Nisqually. There is some information about ... other ... groups."
Compiled under the criteria: (1) statement of sources and faithfulness to them, (2) a true reflection of Indian cosmology, and (3) a written style that retains the spirit and poetry of the Indian's native manner of telling. Includes titles containing valuable introductory materials, bibliographies, motif indexes, and additional comparative notes,...