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Biographies
| Bonnie Biggs (bbiggs@csusm.edu)
, project director for the Tribal Library Census and Needs Assessment grant, has been
involved in the area of tribal library development since 1989. Her research has focused in
this area and she has published a number of articles in the field (bibliography below) as
well as presented at numerous library and American Indian conferences. In 1998, Biggs was
elected to serve as the President of the American Indian Library Association, an affiliate
of the American Library Association. She currently serves as Chair of the Subcommittee on
Library Services to American Indians, ALA Office of Literacy & Outreach Services.
Biggs has visited over fifty tribal libraries in Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona and
California and continues to work closely with tribal libraries in her own backyard -- the
San Diego North County region. Biggs has been a member of the library faculty at
California State University, San Marcos since its inception in 1989. She is Assistant to
the Dean, Coordinator for Public Services and Coordinator for University Arts and
Lectures. Bonnie would like to thank Dr. David Whitehorse (Lakota) for showing her the
path and Dr. Lotsee Patterson (Comanche) for showing her how to travel the path. |
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2004 "Strength In Numbers: Tribal Librarians Find Common Ground in Uncommon Places." American Libraries, Vol. 35, No. 3, March 2004. 2003 “California’s Tribal Librarians – Unite!”. News From Native California. Spring 2003. 2002 “California’s Tribal Libraries: Equal Access?”
California Libraries. 2001 “Report On California’s Tribal Libraries: Equal Access?”. American Indian Libraries Newsletter. Vol. XXIV, No. 1, Fall 2001. "Bright Child of Oklahoma: Lotsee Patterson and the Development of America's Tribal Libraries." American Indian Culture & Research Journal, UCLA. Vol. 24, No. 4, February 2001. "Tribal Libraries: And Still They Rise, " Multicultural Review.Volume 9, Number 1, March, 2000. "Tribal Libraries - Unknown Neighbors". California Libraries. October 1999, Vol. 9, No. 10. "The Tribal Library Project: Interns, American Indians and Library Services". College & Research Libraries News. April 1998. "Sovereignty, Collaboration and Continuing Challenge: A History of Tribal Libraries in San Diego County". Co-authored with David Whitehorse. Special Libraries. Volume 86, No. 4: Fall, 1995. "The Luiseño Culture Bank Project: From Museum Shelves to Hypertext". Co-authored with Catherine S. Herlihy. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, UCLA, volume 18, no. 1: 1994. |
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| Gunnar Biggs (gbiggs@csusm.edu), is a musician/educator who has had an interest in tribal library development for nearly twelve years. He has visited more than fifty reservations in California, New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma. He has taken photographs (with permission) on many reservations to document the development, growth and centrality of libraries as educational hubs for tribal communities. |  |
| Garrett Collins (garrett@csusm.edu),
Academic Webmaster at CSU San Marcos, has been a friend to the local tribes since 1991.
He has worked with Native American groups at Palomar College and at CSU San Marcos
to promote local Pow Wows. He has also donated his time as a lecturer at Rincon
Reservation on several occasions to support technology within the Head Start program. Garrett made these web pages from Bonnie's dream; and, after Bonnie and Gunnar Biggs, he would like to thank his friends Della and Sam Kolb (Luiseño), and their family, for gifting him with their friendship. |
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| Shirley Wilson (swilson@csusm.edu),
provided administrative support for the Tribal Library Census and Needs Assessment
project. She handled all budget, correspondence, packet assemblage, duplication,
contracts, meeting schedules, news clippings and coordinated the logistics for the final
"Gathering of Voices" meeting for tribal librarians at Cal State San Marcos. Shirley is the Administrative Support Assistant II for University Arts & Lectures and comes with a strong background in Fiscal Operations. |
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| Cheryl Leen
(cleen@csusm.edu ), Administrative Support Coordinator for Arts &
Lectures at Cal State San Marcos, worked tirelessly for months to
organize “A Gathering of Voices II” on August 8, 2002 and maintains the
Tierra Del Sol Tribal Libraries Group listserv.
Cheryl is Chippewa-Ojibwa. |
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