Perspectives on the Limits of Assessment: The Indigenous Studies Project

1. Perspectives on the Limits of Assessment: The Indigenous Studies Project • @dm_cooper • danielle.cooper@ithaka.org

2. What are the limitations of mainstream library assessment approaches? • How can these limitations be overcome?

3. A not-for-profit research and consulting service that helps academic, cultural, and publishing communities thrive in the digital environment.

4. Research Support Services (RSS) An ongoing program at Ithaka S+R that qualitatively examines the research activities and support needs of scholars by discipline. Previous Studies History (2012) Art History (2013) Chemistry (2014) Religious Studies (2017) Agriculture (2017) Public Health (2017) Current and Future Studies Asian Studies (2018) Civil and Environmental Engineering (2018) Indigenous Studies (2019) Modern Languages and Literatures (2019)

5. RSS Collaborative Approach

6. What is Indigenous Studies?

7. Characteristics of Indigenous Information Protocols

8. Indigenous Studies Project

9. Participating • Institutions • Dartmouth College • Haskell Indian Nations University/University of Kansas • Northwestern University • Simon Fraser University • University of Alberta • University of Arizona • University of British Columbia • University of Hawaiʻi System • University of Manitoba • University of Saskatchewan • University of Toronto

10. Indigenous StudiesProject Timeline

11. Assumptions about “user research” that need to be re-thought:

12. Further Reading • Indigenous Research Methods Anderson, C. and Walter, M. (2013). Indigenous statistics: A quantitative research methodology. New York: Routledge. Chilisa, B. (2012). Indigenous research methodologies. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. Kovach, M. (2009). Indigenous methodologies: Characteristics, conversations and contexts. University of Toronto Press. Tuck, E. and Wayne Yang, K. (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 1 (1): 1-40. http://www.decolonization.org/index.php/des/article/view/18630/15554 Tuhiwai Smith., L. (1999). Decolonizing methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. London and New York: Zed Books. Wilson, S. (2008), Research is ceremony: Indigenous research methods. Manitoba: Fernwood Publishing.

13. Further Reading • Indigenous Information Practice Becvar, K., & Srinivasan, R. (2009). Indigenous knowledge and culturally responsive methods in information research. The Library Quarterly, 79(4), 421-441. Burns, K., Doyle, A., Joseph, G., and Krebs, A. (2009). Indigenous librarianship. In M.J. Bates and M.N. Maack (Eds.), Encyclopedia of library and information sciences (3rd edition). Boca Raton: Taylor and Francis. Doyle, A. M. and Metoyer, C.A. (2015). Introduction to Indigenous Knowledge Organization Guest Issue. Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 53(5-6) Lee, D. (2008). Indigenous knowledges and the university library. Canadian Journal of Native Education, 31(1), 149; Mills, A. (2017). Learning to Listen: Archival Sound Recordings and Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property. Archivaria, 83, 109-124. Nakata, M., Byrne, A., Nakata, V., & Gardiner, G. (2005). Indigenous knowledge, the library and information service sector, and protocols. Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 36(2), 7-21.

14. Further Reading • Ithaka S+R Research Support Services Program Cooper, D. and Rieger, O. (2018). Scholars ARE Collectors: A Proposal for Re-thinking Research Support. New York: Ithaka S+R. doi: https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.310702 Cooper, D., Daniel, K., Bakker, C., Blanck, J., Childs, C., Gleason, A., ...Woodson, S. (2018). Supporting the Changing Practices of Public Health Scholars. New York: Ithaka S+R. https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.305867 Cooper, D., Bankston, S., Bracke, M.S., Callahan, B., Chang, H., Delserone, L.M., … Young, S. (2017). Supporting the Changing Practices of Agriculture Scholars. New York: Ithaka S+R. https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.303663 Cooper, D., Schonfeld, R.C., Adams, R., Baker, M., Bakkalbasi, N., Bales, J.G., … Weiss, N. (2017). Supporting the Changing Practices of Religious Studies Scholars. New York: Ithaka S+R. https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.294119 Schonfeld, R.C and Rutner, J. (2012). Supporting the Changing Practices of Historians. New York: Ithaka S+R. https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.22532 Schonfeld, R.C and Long, M.P. (2013). Supporting the Changing Practices of Chemists. New York: Ithaka S+R. https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.22561 Schonfeld, R.C and Long, M.P. (2014). Supporting the Changing Practices of Art Historians. New York: Ithaka S+R. https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.22833

15. project • goals • Develop an understanding of Indigenous scholars’ research practices towards improving and developing library and other information-support services • Foster good relationships with Indigenous scholars • Create findings that are respectful and beneficial to Indigenous scholars and Indigenous communities more widely • Demonstrate the importance of understanding and working with Indigenous methods in library research