http://guides.library.ubc.ca/content.php?pid=482521

Indigenous librarianship is a specialized field within library and information studies. Its focus is the culturally sensitive management and development of collections about or for indigenous people, and the appropriate provision of library services to indigenous communities or groups. The Research Guide to Indigenous Librarianship by the Xwi7xwa Library @ UBC is a useful portal to other sources, including a short list of recommended books, associations, etc. The section on indigenous policy development in public institutions is most interesting to me, with links to guides to on how to be a culturally responsive library and protocols for handling indigenous materials. It includes links to indigenous classification schemes (alternatives to Dewey Decimal or Library of Congress classifications) and to lists of standardized indigenous names and terms, needed by librarians for their daily work of indexing and cataloguing.