Changes coming to Books by Mail: Starting in fall 2025, Books by Mail items will only be shipped to addresses in the contiguous United States 50 miles or further from campus. We will make exceptions for students, faculty, and staff with disabilities. Learn more

Fisher restoration: Fisher Fine Arts Library is open and operating normally during ongoing exterior work. Find more details about this important restoration project.

  • Lecture

Indigenous Voices in the Archives: Surveying Native Collections in the Kislak Center

Drawing on lessons learned from collaborating with Native American and First Nations peoples, in-resident researcher Emily Jean Leischner will share stories and snippets from her initial survey of Indigenous knowledge in the Kislak Center archives.

This event has already occurred

calendar_month
March 28, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
location_on
Virtual (link will be sent to registrants)
group
Open to the Public

Hosted by: Kislak Center

Cherokee Alphabet

Like many archives and libraries worldwide, the Kislak collection contains written documentation of invaluable knowledge from Native communities across the globe. Drawing on lessons learned from collaborating with Native American and First Nations peoples, Emily will share stories and snippets from her initial survey of Indigenous knowledge in the archives, and propose directions for their future stewardship and engagement with the Indigenous communities it came from.

About the Speaker

Emily Jean Leischner is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Philosophical Society, graduate of the University of British Columbia, and in-resident researcher at Kislak for 2024-2025. She is a non-Indigenous, community-based scholar and historian who studies and works with museums, archives, and libraries that hold Indigenous collections. She has been working collaboratively with the Nuxalk First Nation since 2016, and is the former co-host of Using and Refusing Museums on Nuxalk Radio.

Event Series

Elzevier Collection duodecimos.

From the Kislak Stacks

Join us for these monthly lunchtime presentations (noon – 1 pm) by Kislak curators, faculty, and students focusing on specific works or small archives/collections found among the holdings of the Kislak Center.

Featured image: Cherokee Alphabet [lithograph], 1826, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Maps and More

Campus Libraries Map

Staff Information

Resources for Staff Committees