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Cataloguing Culture

Cataloguing Culture

How does material culture become data? Why does this matter, and for whom? As the cultures of Indigenous peoples in North America were mined for scientific knowledge, years of organizing, classifying and cataloguing hardened into accepted categories, naming conventions, and tribal affiliations – much of it wrong. Cataloguing Culture examines how colonialism operates in museum […]

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Graduate Programs

We offer unique graduate programs in archival, library and information studies, an interdisciplinary master of children’s literature, and a PhD.

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Undergraduate Programs

Explore the broad field of information studies through our minor in informatics and the Bachelor of Media Studies program.

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Research

Our students and faculty have access to exciting research opportunities. Our school is known for its cross-disciplinary, community-engaged and internationally recognized research.