Seth Porter
Dean, Kraemer Family Library
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
‘Ilaheva Tua’one
KFL Storytelling Professor & Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
The Dean of the Kraemer Family Library (KFL) and the inaugural Storytelling professor will discuss their innovative efforts to decolonize and diversify their programs, collections, and information, through the art of storytelling and the digital exhibitions and corresponding story maps. The founding of this novel program will be discussed, which includes the endowment of a storytelling professor, storytelling contests, events, and the digital curation and celebration of all KFL created content, as well as the emphasis on centering the narratives and diverse lived experiences through storytelling. In addition, the next steps of the overall program, which includes the digital archives and scholarship, will be discussed. The briefing illustrates the need for the decolonization of collections through storytelling.