topic:"Museums" found 3 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Abstract: How does material culture become data? Why does this matter, and for whom? As the cultures of Indigenous peoples in North America were mined for scientific knowledge, years of organizing, classifying, and cataloguing--hardened into accepted categories, naming conventions, and tribal affiliations --much of it wrong. Cataloguing Culture examines how colonialism operates in museum bureaucracies. Using the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History as her reference, Hannah Turner organizes her study by the technologies framing museum work over 200 years: field records, the ledger, the card catalogue, the punch card, and eventually the database. She examines how categories were applied to ethnographic material culture and became routine throughout federal collecting institutions. As Indigenous communities encounter the documentary traces of imperialism while attempting to reclaim what is theirs, this timely work shines a light on access to and return of cultural heritage. -- Provided by publishe

Contents: Introduction: "The Making of Specimens Eloquent" ; Writing Desiderata: Defining Evidence in the Field ; On the Margins: Paper Systems of Classification ; Ordering Devices and Indian Files: Cataloguing Ethnographic Specimens ; Pragmatic Classification: The Routine Work of Description after 1950 ; Object, Specimen, Data: Computerization and the Legacy of Dirty Data ; Conclusion: A Museum Data Legacy for the Future

ISBN: 9780774863933

Accession Number: P2022.04

Call Number: 00 T85c

Collection: Archives Library

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Effective diversity, equity, accessibility, inclusion, and anti-racism practices for museums : from the inside out

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2022

Author: Shellman, Cecile

Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield

Call Number: 00 S3e

Author: Shellman, Cecile

Publisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date: 2022

Physical Description: ix, 120 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Museums; Diversity; Equity; Accessibility; Inclusion; Anti-Racism

Abstract: This book draws from the author's nearly three-decade career of being "the only one in the room". Cecile Shellman builds a process for individualizing, identifying, and prioritizing DEAI challenges; acknowledges key universal challenges in goal-setting and goal achieving; and shares resources and tools for making and charting progress. -- From publisher

Contents: The Only One in the Room ; Why DEAI? Why These Terms, and This Acronym? ; Places of Safety and Refuge ; Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, Inclusion, Justice, and Anti-Oppression ; Case Studies and Practical Exercises for Deeper Engagement ; Our Duty to the Field and Each Other

ISBN: 9781538155998

Accession Number: P2022.02

Call Number: 00 S3e

Collection: Archives Library

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Museums as agents of change : a guide to becoming a changemaker

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2021

Author: Murawski, Mike

Publisher: Laham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield

Call Number: 00 M94m

Author: Murawski, Mike

Publisher: Laham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date: 2021

Physical Description: 132 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Series: American Alliance of Museums

Subjects: Museums; Community Engagement; Diversity; Inclusion; Colonialism

Abstract: Museums everywhere have the potential to serve as agents of change—bringing people together, contributing to local communities, and changing people’s lives. So how can we, as individuals, radically expand the work of museums to live up to this potential? How can we more fiercely recognize the meaningful work that museums are doing to enact change around the relevant issues in our communities? How can we work together to build a stronger culture of equity and care within museums ? Questions like these are increasingly vital for all museum professionals to consider, no matter what your role is within your institution. They are also important questions for all of us to be thinking about more deeply as citizens and community members. This book is about the work we need to do to become changemakers and demand that that our museums take action toward positive social change and bring people together into a more just, equitable, compassionate, and connected society. It is a journey toward tapping the energies within all of us to make change happen and proactively shape a new future. -- Provided by publisher

Contents: Museums Are Us ; Let Your Community In ; Community at the Core: A Conversation with Nina Simon ; Interrupting White Dominant Culture in Museums ; Museums Are Not Neutral: A Conversation with La Tanya S. Autry ; Leading toward a Different Future ; Building a New Model: A Conversation with Lori Fogarty ; Collaborative Leadership That Works: A Conversation with Lauren Ruffin, Molly Alloy, and Nathanael Andreini ; Care and Healing ; Let's Talk about Community Care: A Conversation with Monica Montgomery ; Propelled by Love

ISBN: 9781538108949

Accession Number: P2022.02

Call Number: 00 M94m

Location: Reading Room

Collection: Archives Library

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