Jaya Raju – författare

Engage decolonial perspectives in LIS research methodology.“Information” as conceptualized in the discipline of Library and Information Science (LIS) is not neutral. Library and information services increasingly, in the current digital information age, engage historical, cultural, social, economic, and political forces that interact with information. Such forces may use information to advance dominant epistemic agendas; hence there is a need for LIS researchers, students, practitioners, and other relevant stakeholders to critically interrogate and disrupt these forces in their curation of information for use in research, practice, theory development, policy application, etc. This book engages decolonial perspectives in LIS research methodology for a transformative and critically reflexive approach to research that is community-based, culturally responsive and impactful for Indigenous and other historically marginalized communities. It positions decolonization as rejecting the privileging in scholarship of dominant western knowledge systems and intellectual traditions. Instead, it calls for the centering of perspectives, insights, and knowledges of Indigenous and other marginalized societies so that research may be inclusive of all knowledge systems, respectful of the researched, and of different ways of knowing embedded in the worldviews of others.

A workbook on descriptive and subject cataloguing featuring practical examples and suggested solutions to reinforce theoretical concepts and practical application in descriptive cataloguing (using Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed., 1998 rev.), bibliographic classification (using Dewey Decimal Classification, 21st ed.) and assigning subject headings (using Sears List of Subject Headings, 17th ed.).- Includes examples for both manual and computerised creation of bibliographic records, thus preparing students for both automated and manual library and information service (LIS) environments- While the workbook uses Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Dewey Decimal Classification and Sears List of Subject Headings as tools for information organisation, the major objective is to develop skills in information management and organisation- While the workbook is likely to be predominately used in the instruction of first level library and/or information studies programmes offered by higher education institutions, it could very well be used in the LIS work environment