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Indigenous Academic Library Serves as a Model for Centering First Nations Cultures, Communities, Collections

Indigenous Academic Library Serves as a Model for Centering First Nations Cultures, Communities, Collections

Karen Adjei,  Jun 06, 2019

For the past 26 years, the Xwi7xwa (pronounced “whei-wha”) Library at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver—the only Aboriginal branch of a university library system in Canada—has served as a model for how educational and community institutions can center the knowledge and experiences of the communities they serve by better representing them in the collections they share.

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