Reuse Case: Non-Promiscuous Sharing

Reuse Case: Non-Promiscuous Sharing

The Labriola National American Indian Data Center describes itself as an “Indigenous library center led by an all-Indigenous staff”. On their website, under the header “Information is Sacred…” they mention how as part of their work, the center develops protocols for cultural and Tribal sovereignty, aiming for Indigenous ownership of knowledge. The conditions for re-use of the library's material are being articulated by librarians or custodians, rather than by their authors. To signal these conditions, librarians put orange tags in books which they consider containing misrepresentations of Indigenous peoples, and blue tags in those which include knowledge that shouldn’t be shared “promiscuously”. There is no information on the website about what “non-promiscuous sharing” would entail.