Education & Professional Development - TRC Calls to Action - Library Resources and Best Practices

Tanya Talaga, author of "Seven Fallen Feathers".

"Rights Before We Talk Reconciliation: Reporting on Indigenous Issues in Canada"
Journalist Tanya Talaga delivers the 2018 Clissold Lecture, Faculty of Information & Media Studies, Western University, London, Ontario. March 20, 2018. (1hr 13 min video)

ARL Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce (IRDW)
"...a program designed to recruit master of library and information science (MLIS) students from historically underrepresented ethnic and racial minority groups into careers in research libraries and archives. Benefits of the IRDW include: A stipend of up to $10,000 over two years in support of MLIS education..."

First Nations, Métis, and Inuit students who have been accepted to a library / information science graduate program or have completed their first year of such a program are eligible to apply.

In Our Own Words: Decolonising Description in the Library and Archival Community
June 14 & 15, 2018. The Collaboratory, Scott Library, York University, Toronto, Ontario.
Indigenizing the Academy, May 3-4, 2018
Free conference organized by the Assocation of Nova Scotia University Teachers, at Membertou Trade and Convention Centre, near Sydney, in Unama'ki (Cape Breton).
LAC Forum with University Partners: Exploring Decolonization on the Road to Reconciliation
November 6th, 2017.
395 Wellington Street, Ottawa,
2017 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums
Oct. 9-12, 2017. New Mexico.
Keepers of the Stories: Indigenous Readers' Services Conference
September 28, 2017. Toronto Public Library, Readers' Services Committee.-

National Aboriginal Library Association [Canada] - Three Year Business Plan - "Improving reading of Aboriginal People"
Consultant's report. April, 2016.
Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums (ATALM)
American Indian Library Association (AILA)
"An affiliate of the American Library Association (ALA), the American Indian Library Association is a membership action group that addresses the library-related needs of American Indians and Alaska Natives.".