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Indigenous Librarianship
It is important to note that there is no single term or description that can capture just how diverse the indigenous people are. When speaking of indigenous people, the World Bank uses such characteristics as people whose indigenous language is different from the national language, and a social group whose cultural identity is distinctly different from the dominant society, which in turn, makes then vulnerable to being disadvantaged.

The whole point of indigenous librarianship is to focus on finding/providing services to circulate relevant cultural information for the indigenous peoples and the environmental knowledge associated with them.

Indigenous librarianship is a developing branch of library and information science. It first came to light in the 1970s in response to indigenous advocacy movements and the reconciliation efforts of states’ governments, primarily in countries such as the USA, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.

The first ever meeting of Indigenous Librarians was held in November 1999. This steamed from a growing awareness of the importance of indigenous knowledge. Reports place the number of indigenous people in the world anywhere from 300 million to 400 million.

Indigenous librarianship is focused on the fundamentals of the traditional theory of librarianship. The traditional theory can be defined as an inquiry that “seeks to understand both the processes and the tools of the production, distribution, and utilization of intellectual products.” Indigenous librarianship want to understand how certain characteristics of knowledge shape the generation, dissemination, and preservation of knowledge. Contrary to the original theory, indigenous librarianship sees the conception of knowledge as events of processes.