Librarians create educational tool for accessing residential school survivor stories
Global News
Three librarians from the University of Toronto set out to create a publicly-available online storybase for survivor stories in hopes of improving access to learning for Canadians.
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A lot can be learned from the stories of residential school survivors.
Inspired by a desire to have these stories accessible, three librarians set out to create a publicly-available online storybase of residential school survivor stories.
“We recognize that for a long time our institutions have not been very responsive to community needs,” said Indigenous studies librarian at the University of Toronto, Desmond Wong.
“We are really working as a library system to respond to the prompts that have been put forward by Indigenous people.”
The storybase is searchable and links to approximately 250 survivor stories in various formats; visitors can search by survivor name or former school.
The storybase points to survivors’ original accounts on various platforms like the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, Legacy of Hope and YouTube instead of holding their stories directly on the site.
“We really see this as a way for us to set an example of what ethical consultation and ethical community collaboration can look like,” said Wong. “We don’t hold any of the material, we don’t steward any of the material, we simply point to the material.”
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