ABSTRACT
The Arctic as a region of land, sea, and ice has a long history of natural resources appropriation by European explorers in the past, and, more recently in time, trans- and multi-national corporations engaged in drilling, mining, and commerce activities. Various international classification schemes have been created in attempts to offer some standardisation regarding which fields are included under the larger umbrellas of social sciences, humanities, and physical-natural sciences. Library and information studies (or sciences) is the merger of “library” and “information” research and practice. Museums with Arctic collections are doing great work in raising the public visibility – in person and online – of historical and contemporary Arctic issues, although there is, and has been for quite some time, expressed concern that libraries, archives, and museums tend to “reinforce the image of the North as a frontier region at the tenuous edge of European society rather than the centre of distinctive northern cultures.
