Our community––the TLAM family––lost an amazing person last week. Megann Schmitt, a UW-Madison SLIS student, left us on Tuesday. Over the last two years, she’s been very involved with TLAM, especially with Red Cliff and their new library. We traveled and presented
Golly, it’s been quite a semester!
Golly, it’s been quite a semester! Between work, classes, extracurricular activities, and everything else that takes up the time of your average student, all of us have been kept more than busy in the academic swirl we call grad school.
Visiting the Dells
When someone mentions Wisconsin Dells, what’s the first thing that pops into your mind? Water parks? Roller coasters? Stories your grandma told you about some funky rock formations? While all of these are certainly true, the Wisconsin Dells have more
Pleasantly Lost: Exploring Red Cliff and Bayfield
With fewer agenda items, our second trip up to Red Cliff was more focused on the task of cataloging new items, specifically finishing up the Metz Collection. When we arrived during the afternoon of April 15th we fell right into
A Hug in Every Way: The Eighth Generation of TLAMers Go to Red Cliff
When offered the chance to join a group of talented and service-minded individuals throughout the state, we leapt at the opportunity to become part of the longstanding partnership between SLIS and the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. What
Librarians Without Borders: International Indigenous TLAM Issues
Not content to stop at the borders of our country, we spent a week learning about TLAM efforts abroad, which came with mini-lessons on other indigenous groups. For our penultimate discussion, the class was broken up into four pairs,
Tribal Libraries are Bi-Cultural Libraries
Libraries match their collections, services, and spaces to the community and the community’s wants and needs. This makes tribal libraries bi-cultural institutions as they provide access to both indigenous knowledge and western knowledge. In other words, tribal libraries can be
Worldview, Education, and Children’s Literature, Oh My!
Studies have found that Indian children consistently underperform in standardized tests, and that only 70% graduate on time. Why are Native children not succeeding? In particular, why do they lag behind other groups that have also experienced historical inequities (e.g.