A library revamp for reconciliation – Macleans.ca

Confederation College’s library is undergoing a transformation, which includes new book club initiatives and replacing colonial-era subject headings in the filing system

Jan 27, 2020

For some, reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada begins with a book club. The Negahneewin Reading Series, a monthly literary circle at Confederation College, brings faculty and others together to read about and discuss Canada’s relationship with Indigenous people.

“It was another way to get staff involved in learning,” says Lisa Jack, manager of the college’s Paterson Library Commons. “We found this was a way for people, through literature and poetry, to relate more to other people’s stories.”

Begun in 2007, and formally organized in 2016, the book club invites members, some of whom attend online, to read a book a month throughout the academic year on an Indigenous topic. Among their selections of First Nation, Métis and Inuit writers, book club members have read Ma-Nee Chacaby’s A Two-Spirit Journey, Maria Campbell’s Half-Breed and Tanya Talaga’s Seven Fallen Feathers.

Read More: https://www.macleans.ca/education/college/a-library-revamp-for-reconciliation/