Illinois - Tribal & First Nation Communities

Knowledge River Now Accepting Applications

2007-11-16T18:42:50Z

Knowledge River is currently accepting applications for our next cohort
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What is Knowledge River?

Knowledge River, at the University of Arizona's School of Information Resources and Library Science (SIRLS), is concerned with the special information interests
and needs of Hispanics and Native Americans. Knowledge River offers students the opportunity to attain a Master's Degree in Information Resources and Library
Science and develop special areas of expertise, enhanced by our unique multicultural learning community.

Since its inception six years ago, Knowledge River has become a leader in graduate professional education of Hispanic and Native American librarians and
information specialists. When the current cohort graduates, more than 100 Hispanic and Native American librarians will have entered the field though Knowledge River.

Apply now to be in our next class!

Cohort seven begins with one introductory class (IRLS504) requiring a one-week residency (August 1-7, 2008) in Tucson. Full-time semester attendance in Tucson is required in Fall 08 and Spring 09. Most students complete the 36-credit
degree with an additional summer and/or fall semester.

Support offered to KR scholars includes tuition and fees for IRLS 504, a graduate assistantship for Fall 08 and Spring 09, (usually involving 20 hours of work per week in a library), customized academic advising and support, and peer support from fellow students. Additional funds for completing the degree are usually available on a competitive basis.

Knowledge River Scholars must be accepted for admission into the SIRLS graduate program by submitting application materials no later than February 1, 2008. Application information and materials are available on our
website: http://knowledgeriver.arizona.edu.

Please do not hesitate to ask us any questions you may have regarding Knowledge River, application procedures, academic requirements, financial aid, etc. For more information, contact us at kriver@mail.sbs.arizona.edu, or call (520) 621-3958.

Children's Literature and Activities

2007-11-13T20:31:25Z

I wanted to post a link to the wonderful blog maintained by Debbie Reese, http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2007/07/ala-president-loriene-roy-anishinabe.html.
There is a small section on celebrating Thanksgiving, which seemed appropriate to post about now.

Emily

Re: Indigenous Reading and Culture

2006-01-11T09:46:59Z

Indigenuous African themed objects - yes, this is my proposition> what do you know about this? Share with me... I have some African themed dishes (artifacts) from keicreations and I need some extra advice: what else should I buy? (African themed artifacts, I mean)

Indigenous Reading and Culture

2005-04-21T02:14:34Z

Loriene - you can start a new topic here. And do as many of them as you like!

Re: RE: RE: RE: RE: Welcome Native and Indigenous Librarians

2005-02-16T02:23:48Z

Greetings, indigenous librarians--

We had a great visit last week to tribal school and community libraries in New Mexico, stopping by sites at To'Hajiilee, Tesuque, Santa Clara, Ojo Encino, and Jemez. Thanks for the hospitality and we'll see you again in a couple of months!

Loriene Roy and students at the School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin

RE: RE: Welcome Native and Indigenous Librarians

2004-05-10T11:32:00Z

Hi,Camille,

It's great to hear from you!

Students in the spring 2004 "Library Instruction and Information Literacy" class just completed version 1.0 of a "Native Bridge to WebJunction." You'll find it at [url http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~loriene/nativebridge ]http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~loriene/nativebridge.[/url] We're gathering comments so that we can work on revisions over the summer!

Cheers,

Loriene

RE: RE: RE: Welcome Native and Indigenous Librarians

2004-05-20T14:03:00Z

Dagot'ee!

Hello everyone, Cedric Hendricks here from the San Carlos Public Library. I teach computers and work to introduce our community to the technology here on the San Carlos Apache Indian Res. Great to meet you all!

RE: RE: RE: RE: Welcome Native and Indigenous Librarians

2004-05-24T16:17:00Z

Hi Cedric, it's good to see an old friend on the boards! I'm glad you joined us. Everyone, please be sure to check out Cedric's library as a WJ "library of the month" in the archive.

JohnB. I was visiting Oakland last weekend and thought about checking in to see if you were on campus on Friday; my day got away from me. We're glad to have you with us too!

Welcome Native and Indigenous Librarians

2004-04-28T14:37:00Z

My name is Christina Thompson and I am working with my class at the University of Texas to create a native bridge to WJ. I would like to provide an opportunity for librarians and library workers who work with native libraries to say hello and introduce themselves!

RE: Welcome Native and Indigenous Librarians

2004-05-03T11:59:00Z

Thanks, Christina, for starting this discussion. I'm Anishinabe (enrolled: White Earth Reservation, Minnesota) and teach in the School of Information at University of Texas at Austin. I work on a number of projects with and for those providing information services in Indian country.

RE: Welcome Native and Indigenous Librarians

2004-05-04T05:27:00Z

Hello Christina, My name is John D. Berry, Choctaw - Oklahoma. Native American Studies Librarian at the Ethnic Studies Library, UC Berzekeley. JDB

RE: Welcome Native and Indigenous Librarians

2004-05-05T13:45:00Z

My apoligies for duplicating this message--I meant to post it to this thread! My name is Barbara Cosart, and I am the Special Populations Outreach Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region (New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas). The NN/LM is the outreach arm of the National Library of Medicine. In addition to training and consultation (all free), we fund outreach and connectivity projects throughout our region. Of particular interest to small public and Tribal libraries is the Library Improvement Project which aims to improve electronic access to health and wellness information. Past recipients of our equipment awards includes the El Pueblo Health Services, Bernalillo, NM, Santa Fe Indian Hospital, Santa Fe, NM, Choctaw Nation Healthcare Center in Talihina, OK, and the Cherokee Nation Health Center in Tahlequah, OK. One of our larger outreach projects we recently funded is the SMILE project, a mental health awareness outreach project in the Four Corners area of New Mexico. This included a tv public service announcement in Navajo. So, if you have a health information/wellness outreach project in mind, or need to improve health information access, please keep us in mind and visit [url http://nnlm.gov/scr/outrch/fundopp.htm ]http://nnlm.gov/scr/outrch/fundopp.htm[/url] for current information and past recipients. And please feel free to contact me directly at our 800 number.

RE: Welcome Native and Indigenous Librarians

2004-05-06T05:42:00Z

My name is Camille Callison and I am from the Tahltan Nation in Northwestern B.C., Canada. I am a SLAIS student at the University of British Columbia and I am really happy to see good First Nations resources being developed.