Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities

Spencer Acadia is an Assistant Professor of Research Methods and Information Science at the University of Denver in Denver in the USA.Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad is an Academic Librarian at the University of Bergen Library in Norway and the Academic Director of its Picture Collection, Department of Special Collections.

• Foreword: Running up the Arctic Information Highway Igor Krupnik1. Introduction: Why this Book and Why the Arctic? Spencer Acadia and Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad2. Exploring the Rough Edges of the Arctic Field Experience with University Students: Bridging the Natural and Social Sciences Mark Safstrom and Jennifer Burnham 3. Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Community-Based Participatory Research: A Case Study with Gwich’in Alaska Natives Michael Koskey 4. Controlled Vocabulary and Indigenous Terminology in Canadian Arctic Legal Research Nadine Hoffman 5. The North-South Attraction: Forging New Relationships between Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic and Archives in the South Shelley Sweeney and Cheryl Avery 6. Here is Where We See: Cinema, Academic Libraries, and Northern Community Intellectual Life Morgon Mills, Mark David Turner, Martha MacDonald and Ashlee Cunsolo 7. The Significance of Arctic Snow: Making Sense of the Photographic Archive from the Norwegian Lappmarken Expedition 1911-1912 Ola Søndenå 8. Repeat Photography and Archives: A Humanities-Based Dialogue with the History of Ice in Svalbard Tyrone Martinsson 9. A Descriptive Analysis of Selected Archives at the Barents Centre of Humanities: Russian Arctic Expedition Artists in the 19th and Early 20th CenturyOlga Shabalina, Medeya Ivanova, Evgenia Patsia, and Ekaterina Shabalina 10. ‘Exhibiting the Arctic:’ A Humanities-Based Analysis of Climate Change Exhibitions at the Polar Museum in Tromsø Lena Aarekol, Marit Anne Hauan, and Hanne Hammer Stien 11. Gateway to the Sámi Past: The Sámi Hidden in Archives from 18th Century Scandinavia Harald Lindbach 12. Queering the Norwegian Archive: Skeivt Arkiv and Changing Concepts of Gender and Sexuality Hannah Gillow-Kloster and Runar Jordåen 13. Accessing the Documentary Heritage of the Labrador Inuit: Collaboration on a Small-Scale Digitisation ProjectDarren Furey and Stacey Penney 14. Fieldwork on Kamchatka Peninsula and Creation of the Foundation for Siberian Cultures: Towards an Open Access Database of Indigenous Languages and Knowledge from the Russian Far East Erich Kasten 15. Archival, Library, and Research Centres in Arkhangelsk: Librarians and Archivists as Specialists, Educators, and Researchers in Arctic Studies Konstantin Zaikov and Tatyana Troshina Chapter 16: Preserving and Utilising an Arctic Research Image Collection: The Making of a New Publishing Platform at the National Institute of Polar ResearchYasuyuki Minamiyama, Hiroshi Kanda, and Akiko Osaka 17.ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ ᐅᖃᓕᒫᒐᖃᕐᕕᒻᒥᑦ ᑎᑭᓵᒃᓴᐃᑦ = Nunavummi Uqalimaagaqarvimmit Tikisaaksait = Nunavut’s Library Catalogues and the Preservation and Promotion of Inuit Language Materials Carol Rigby18. The University Library-Museum Complex as a Focal Point of Regional Arctic Social Science Research: The Case of St. Petersburg State University Alexander Sergunin Afterword Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad