Boozhoo! Hello!

Welcome to the website of the Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums (TLAM) Project.

In its fourth year at the University of Wisconsin – Madison School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS), TLAM is a experimental project to bring indigenous information topics to LIS education through service-learning, networking, and resource sharing with Wisconsin’s tribal cultural institutions. The TLAM Project currently encompasses a graduate topics course; the Convening Culture Keepers mini-conference series for Wisconsin tribal librarians, archivists, and museum curators; numerous community engagement projects with our partners, including the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa; and a brand new TLAM Student Group.

Explore the site to learn about all of the great things we’re working on:

Convening Culture Keepers
A series of six one-day, biannual professional development and networking mini-conferences for Wisconsin’s tribal librarians, archivists, and museum curators.

Red Cliff Library
Learn about a partnership between UW-Madison SLIS and the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewas to develop a new tribal library and community center.

TLAM Class
Since 2009, UW-Madison’s School of Library and Information Studies has offered an experimental service-learning based course called Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums.

TLAM Student Group
Inspired by what we learned through the class and community engagement activities, SLIS students created this group as a way to continue participating in the TLAM Project outside of the classroom and share our interests with the larger UW-Madison community.

Be sure to follow our progress and reflections on our Blog throughout 2012!