Indigenous Information Perspectives

Indigenous perspectives in libraries and information institutions have been long overlooked and undervalued in the profession. Spencer Lilley’s Indigenous Information Perspectives provides an essential foundation for library and information professionals, leaders, students, faculty, and others who are on a journey to build better relationships with Indigenous Peoples. Lilley’s carefully written text will help readers better understand Indigenous information issues, including information ethics, Indigenous cultural property rights, and Indigenous knowledge in the digital world. I look forward to introducing this text to my colleagues and my students. * Sandy Littletree (Navajo/Eastern Shoshone), PhD, MSIS, Assistant Professor, University of Washington Information School, USA *
Spencer Lilley has given the Indigenous library and information field the book it has long needed. Indigenous Information Perspectives moves through the foundations of Indigenous identity and colonization through to data governance and digital futures, holding theory and practice together throughout. What makes it vital is the way it treats decolonization and indigenization not as rhetoric, but as living practices the GLAM sector must actively take up. A critical text for scholarship, students and practitioners alike. * Kirsten Thorpe, Professor, Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research, University of Technology Sydney, Australia *
Spencer Lilley makes a compelling case for engaging with Indigenous information perspectives across LIS scholarship and practice. Grounded in personal experience and international in scope, this is a wonderfully accessible and erudite guide to the essential work of learning, relationship building, and changemaking needed for libraries and archives to respectfully engage with Indigenous peoples. This book should be in the hands of every LIS educator and professional. * Luanne Sinnamon, Professor, School of Information, University of British Columbia, Canada *