uwmarchives: uwmspeccoll: Staff Pick of the Week: Decolonizing Library Science A few months ago we p
uwmarchives:uwmspeccoll:Staff Pick of the Week: Decolonizing Library ScienceA few months ago we posted about tabling at the 2016 Milwaukee Zine Fest on November 5th, where Max taught a workshop called “Pamphlet Sewing for Zine Structures,” and Kalani sold a zine they had made for the fest. The zine, Decolonizing Library Science was conceived of and made from start to finish in the 24 hours preceding the fest (minus some content that came from essays written in previous classes). Max and Kalani actually sewed them at the table before Max taught his workshop.The main topic of the zine was, you guessed it, decolonization in libraries. While libraries tend to be more progressive than other spaces and workplaces, there is still a lot of work to be done to make things more diverse and more accessible to marginalized peoples. In this zine, Kalani talks about their experiences as a graduate student in the Library and Information Science program at UWM (which includes being called “white-ish” by a professor during a lesson on diversity), frustrations with WLA appropriating Hawaiian culture for a fundraiser and responding poorly to criticism about it, Library of Congress Subject headings being problematic and Western-centric, and how archives in the Pacific (and elsewhere) perpetuate colonialism by privileging Western ways of remembering. All proceeds from the zine were donated to the water protectors at Standing Rock. So far $125 has been donated, and many people have reached out since Zine Fest to order a copy.Cool work, Friends! -- source link