Episode 7 - With Catherine Bellamy

Let’s Talk Libraries!

Catherine Bellamy (she/her), librarian and founder of Redbird Library Consulting Services, talks about building a library in a First Nations elementary school, her passion for outreach services, and the inspiration that guides her work. She is based in K'emk'emeláy (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada).

Listen to the podcast below…

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Catherine Bellamy is a librarian currently living as a guest in K'emk'emeláy—the Place of Many Maple Trees in the Squamish language—now also called Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, located on the shared ancestral, traditional, and unceded homelands of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Her ancestors came from western Europe; they eventually settled in the Appalachian Mountains of what is now called Kentucky, the ancestral homelands of the Cherokee and Shawnee peoples, where she calls home. 

Here are all the people Catherine mentioned in the podcast:

• Chris Morett of Co|Here Campus and Workplace

• Dr. Spencer Lilley

• Camille Callison

• Brian Deer

• Jessie Loyer

• Ann Doyle

• Kim Lawson

• Dr. Sandy Littletree

• Gene Joseph 

• Sarah Dupont

• Sara Zettervall

Information about the Brian Deer Classification System

First Nations House of Learning Subject Headings

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