Lotsee Patterson
American librarian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Lotsee Patterson is a Comanche librarian, educator, and founder of the American Indian Library Association. She has written numerous articles on collection development, tribal libraries and Native American Librarianship. A Native American, Lotsee Patterson first became interested in collecting Native American objects, as her mother was a collections director. In the late 1950s, she read the 1983 publication The Museum Handbook of Native American History. She saw that Native Americans were less well documented than other cultures and often paid exorbitant prices for materials that were soon obsolete. Patterson is a University of Oklahoma Professor Emeritus of Library and Information Studies.
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- Getting the "Indian" Out of the Cupboard: Using Information Literacy To Promote Critical Thinking. (2000) (24)
- History and Status of Native Americans in Librarianship (2000) (23)
- Tribally Controlled Community College Libraries: A Paradigm for Survival. (1996) (15)
- Information Needs and Services of Native Americans. (1995) (12)
- Native American Resources: A Model for Collection Development. (2004) (6)
- Native American Library Services: Reclaiming the Past, Designing the Future. (1992) (6)
- Tribal Library Procedures Manual. TRAILS (Training and Assistance for Indian Library Services), September 10, 1985-January 10, 1987. (1986) (2)
- Indian terms of the Americas (1994) (1)
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