Indigenous Governance Role within Institutional Records Management

Exploring decolonization and reconciliation through the lens of the records manager’s daily work, the presentation examines how records management processes and activities can incorporate Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDS) and Indigenous Data Governance (IDG) within the university environment.  Focusing on Indigenous information governance in student and staff records, statistics and demographics routinely created and collected in academics, other sources of Indigenous data emerge.  It is through this lens that IDS and IDG can guide the operational and administrative records practices to:  

• Improve records classification and disposition to acknowledge diversity of the institutional history and acknowledge past relationships with Indigenous communities; and 

• Promote these changes and acknowledgements as part of the institution’s mandate of teaching and learning and in its engagement with communities. 

Presenter/Facilitator Bio

Lori Podolsky

Lori Podolsky is a PhD student in the School of Information Studies at McGill University.  Her area of study focuses on colonization and racism in records management and digitization standards.  Lori has worked in several archival institutions including the Hudson's Bay Company Archives and the Provincial Archives of Alberta, and as a records manager for Alberta Environment and the Alberta Research Council. 

Cost: Free
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This is part of the Maskwacis Cultural College Microlearning Series and is open to the public.
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