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Academic Health Sciences Libraries' Outreach And Engagement With North American Indigenous Communities: A Scoping Review, Allison B. Cruise, Alexis Ellsworth-Kopkowski, A Nydia Villezcas, Jonathan Eldredge, Melissa L. Rethlefsen
Academic Health Sciences Libraries' Outreach And Engagement With North American Indigenous Communities: A Scoping Review, Allison B. Cruise, Alexis Ellsworth-Kopkowski, A Nydia Villezcas, Jonathan Eldredge, Melissa L. Rethlefsen
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Objective: We sought to identify trends and themes in how academic health sciences libraries in the United States, Canada and Mexico have supported engagement and outreach with Native Americans, Alaska Natives, First Nations, and Indigenous peoples, in or from those same countries. We also sought to learn and share effective practices for libraries engaging with these communities.
Methods: We conducted a scoping review utilizing Arksey and O’Malley’s framework for scoping reviews and followed principles from JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis. We searched seven bibliographic databases, E-LIS (Eprints in Library and Information Science repository), and multiple sources of grey literature. Results …