Should Northern Territory "Knowledge Centres" be classified as Indigenous Knowledge Centres? #90

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opened 2021-01-30 18:32:29 +11:00 by hughrun · 1 comment

hughrun commented

2021-01-30 18:32:29 +11:00

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Queensland State Library clearly distinguishes IKCs, but the Northern Territory Library is a bit vaguer.

lissertations commented

2021-01-30 19:04:31 +11:00

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I'm not sure NTL / LANT ever formally distinguished urban and remote libraries in this way, even when the 'Library and Knowledge Centre' concept was in wide use (see this 2005 eval report and this 2007 AARL paper by that report's authors). I would therefore be reluctant to impose such a reclassification on them. It does, however, expose some philosophical differences between LANT and SLQ on the cultural inclusiveness of the term 'library'.

An interesting thought experiment would be to reclassify all libraries in the NT as IKCs.

I'm not sure NTL / LANT ever formally distinguished urban and remote libraries in this way, even when the 'Library and Knowledge Centre' concept was in wide use (see this [2005 eval report](https://web.archive.org/web/20110805202521/http://www.ntl.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/4680/nakata_finalreport.pdf) and this [2007 AARL paper](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00048623.2007.10721297) by that report's authors). I would therefore be reluctant to impose such a reclassification on them. It does, however, expose some philosophical differences between LANT and SLQ on the cultural inclusiveness of the term 'library'. An interesting thought experiment would be to reclassify _all_ libraries in the NT as IKCs.