community-engaged approach - Information Matters

We often think of “care” in the archiving context in terms of objects (artifacts, records, documents). GLAM institutions (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) have a responsibility to protect valuable items with significant social, cultural, and heritage value, and to preserve important information for current and future generations. These institutions work with care to make sure that knowledge is not lost. But what can we learn by turning our attention towards the communities whose knowledges we care for? How might adopting an attitude of care encourage us to look after people and not only their objects? Along this line, how can we change our policies and practices accordingly?

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December 17, 2022 Jia Tina Du

A Critical Approach to Engaging Communities in Information Behavior Research

Human-information interactions tend to be studied as isolated events. In reality, most human interactions, including those associated with information behaviors, are informed by individuals’ association/connection with their communities. A person’s community or communities inform their identity, belonging, behavior, and knowledge.