> Working Together

Yurauna

Centre

Learning

Centre

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CIT’s Yurauna Centre and Learning Centre working together providing library and information services to Indigenous students, now and into the future.

Julieanne PaulazzoSenior Librarian Learning Resources and Systems

Learning Centre

Caroline HughesDirector

Yurauna Centre

> Working Together

We acknowledge the Gadigal community, the

traditional owners on whose land we are meeting

today.

We pay our respects to their Elders, both past and

present and acknowledge their continued

connection to their lands since time began.

> Acknowledgement

1. Background on:

• CIT

• Yurauna Centre

• Learning Centre

2. Yurauna and Learning Centre’s Partnership

3. ATSILIRN Protocols

4. Future

> Content

> Canberra Institute of Technology

• Largest RTO provider in the ACT providing 80% of publicly funded VET activity in the ACT

• CIT has 6 campuses across ACT

• 16 Centres that include delivery and support areas

• Over 400 courses

• 30,527 student enrolments

• 370 Indigenous students

Yurauna Centre – Indigenous

Educational Programs

• Learning Options• Creative Writing• Access 10• Cultural Competency – Educational• Museum Practice• Cultural Art and Design• Interview Friends• Circle Sentencing• Teaching in a variety of disciplines across CIT• Small programs to assist with VET options• Commercial programs

• Cultural and personal support • Academic and tutorial support• Research skills• Scholarships• Referrals to other agencies within CIT and the ACT• In class tuition• Mediation and Advocacy• Negotiated places into mainstream programs• Pathways to University• Access to resources e.g. Resource room, exhibition

space, study room, IT lab, multifunctional device – printing, photocopier, email, scanner etc

> Yurauna Centre – Student Support

> Learning Centre

CIT Learning Centre provides a learning commons for all students.

The services it provides are focussed around:

• Library and Information Services• Places to learn and study• Flexible Learning Options• Learning Support

CIT Reconciliation Statement

www.cit.act.edu.au/yurauna

> Foundation of Respect

> Resource Library

1997 the Learning Centre assisted in organizing a small collection of resources and creating a bibliography of indigenous Library holdings across CIT.

2005 work began to establish a Resource Library within the Yurauna Centre

2006 the Learning Centre won the CIT Chief Executive’s Indigenous Reconciliation Award for the project and our ongoing commitment and work with the YC.

> Resource Library

2008 the Resource Library provides an excellent resource for study, research, self development, cultural knowledge and literacy.

Selection of new material is the responsibility of Yurauna Centre staff and they are encouraged to recommend resources for the general LC collections too.

Resources are purchased via the Learning Centre. All resources are catalogued with the location Yurauna Collection

> Resource Library

Culturally sensitive material is sorted by Yurauna Centre staff on arrival and shelved in a separate area

Students from the Certificate 3 Library and Information Services program are gaining practical experience in the Resource Library by shelf reading, and undertaking book maintenance including covering and new shelf labels.

> Resource Library

Subject Categories

Arts

• painting, dance, crafts

Contemporary Issues

• stolen generation, reconciliation

* Education and Teaching resources

* Bush Foods and Medicine * Law

* Employment * Government Policies * Health

* History * Indigenous Australians * Land Rights * Language Literature

* Living Conditions * Social Life and customs

A AUS

A Arts

AUS Australian Rock Art

> Resource Library

Resources are organised using the first letter of the subject category and the first three letters of the title:

> ATSILIRN Protocols

Content and perspective• Consult with Yurauna staff on Indigenous content

of Learning Centre collections

• Created Yurauna Centre Resource Library

Accessibility and use

• Strengthened via Learning Centre Liaison Officer

• Cultural Awareness Training of Learning Centre staff

> ATSILIRN Protocols

Description and Classification of Materials

• In house classification system devised jointly with Yurauna Centre and Learning Centre

Secret or Sacred Materials

• Yurauna Centre manage material requiring restricted access

• Learning Centre consult with Yurauna Centre on material held in Learning Centre collections

Offensive Material

• Learning Centre collection has been weeded to remove this material

Governance and Management• Shared position on CITAC

Staffing

• Students from the Library and Information Services program gain practical experience in the Yurauna Centre Resource Library by shelf reading, and collection maintenance

> ATSILIRN Protocols

Education and Training for Professional Practice

• Students from the Library and Information Services program gain practical experience in the Yurauna Centre Resource Library by shelf reading, and collection maintenance

• Indigenous Cultural Competency provided by Yurauna Centre

• This training to be a priority in PD plans of all Learning Centre staff in 2009 and beyond

> ATSILIRN Protocols

Awareness of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People and Issues

• Informal and formal meetings with Yurauna Centre staff

• Keeping abreast of current issues such as the Apology

• Displays of student work in Learning Centre

• Attending activities e.g. NAIDOC week, end of year student celebrations

> ATSILIRN Protocols

Digitisation and the Internet

> ATSILIRN Protocols

“A future where we harness the determination of all Australians,

Indigenous and Non-Indigenous, to close the gap that lies between us in

life expectancy, educational achievement and economic

opportunity.” Kevin Rudd’s Sorry Day Speech

13 February 2008