ABSTRACT

Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities serves as a key interdisciplinary title that links the social sciences and humanities with current issues, trends, and projects in library, archival, and information sciences within shared Arctic frameworks and geographies.

Including contributions from professionals and academics working across and on the Arctic, the book presents recent research, theoretical inquiry, and applied professional endeavours at academic and public libraries, as well as archives, museums, government institutions, and other organisations. Focusing on efforts that further Arctic knowledge and research, papers present local, regional, and institutional case studies to conceptually and empirically describe real-life research in which the authors are engaged. Topics covered include the complexities of developing and managing multilingual resources; working in geographically isolated areas; curating combinations of local, regional, national, and international content collections; and understanding historical and contemporary colonial-industrial influences in indigenous knowledge.

Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities will be essential reading for academics, researchers, and students working the fields of library, archival, and information or data science, as well as those working in the humanities and social sciences more generally. It should also be of great interest to librarians, archivists, curators, and information or data professionals around the globe.

chapter 1|65 pages

Introduction

Why this book and why the Arctic?

chapter 2|25 pages

Exploring the rough edges of the Arctic field experience with university students

Bridging the natural and social sciences

chapter 3|19 pages

Indigenous knowledge systems and community-based participatory research

A case study with Gwich’in Alaska Natives

chapter 5|20 pages

The North–South attraction

Forging new relationships between Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic and archives in the South

chapter 6|19 pages

Here is where we see

Cinema, academic libraries, and Northern community intellectual life

chapter 7|27 pages

The significance of Arctic snow

Making sense of the photographic archive from the Norwegian Lappmarken Expedition 1911–1912

chapter 8|28 pages

Repeat photography and archives

A humanities-based dialogue with the history of ice in Svalbard

chapter 9|28 pages

A descriptive analysis of selected archives at the Barents Centre of Humanities

Russian Arctic expedition artists in the 19th and early 20th century

chapter 10|23 pages

Exhibiting the Arctic

A humanities-based analysis of climate change exhibitions at the Polar Museum in Tromsø

chapter 11|16 pages

Gateway to the Sámi past

The Sámi hidden in archives from 18th century Scandinavia

chapter 12|23 pages

Queering the Norwegian archive

Skeivt arkiv and changing concepts of gender and sexuality 1

chapter 13|12 pages

Accessing the documentary heritage of the Labrador Inuit

Collaboration on a small-scale digitisation project 1

chapter 14|24 pages

Fieldwork on Kamchatka Peninsula and the creation of the Foundation for Siberian Cultures

Towards an open-access database of indigenous languages and knowledge from the Russian Far East

chapter 15|18 pages

Archival, library, and research centres in Arkhangelsk

Librarians and archivists as specialists, educators, and researchers in Arctic studies

chapter 16|18 pages

Preserving and Utilising an Arctic Research Image Collection

The making of a new publishing platform at the National Institute of Polar Research

chapter |2 pages

Afterword