After having been closed for over a year the Red Cliff Library is reopening with limited hours and fueled by volunteer power. Earlier this month our tribal libraries, archives, and museums class had the opportunity to visit with the tribal government and other important stakeholders on the reservation. At that time it was decided that a number of volunteers would get the library tentatively open again on April 20, with a grand reopening to follow. We helped organize and clean the library in anticipation of this event and look forward to hearing how the reopening is going.
You can read more about our trip and service-learning work at Red Cliff here.
Loriene Roy
Well, I forgot to promote it here before it happened, but this last Wednesday and Thursday we have the honor of having past ALA president and library professor at UT-Austin L
oriene Roy come speak with us at UW-Madison about indigenous librarianship. She highlighted many of the things that have been going on in the US regarding indigenous librarianship, but also spoke at length about international initiatives such as the ones by IFLA and the International Indigenous Librarians' Forum. She is one of the advisers for the ongoing American Experience documentary series We Shall Remain and a great speaker.If you missed the first episodes of We Shall Remain you can still see them at the PBS website.
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