(6 Apr 2025) A Wellington Library is trialling a new way of cataloguing its mātauranga Māori books, organising them by atua (deity) rather than by the Dewey Decimal system.
Bridget Jennings is the Senior Cataloguing Specialist at Wellington City Libraries, she said they wanted to create a structure for the library’s collections based on how knowledge is organised in te ao Māori.
“Libraries around the world have been thinking about this for a long time, how to reflect indigenous ways of knowing and certainly libraries in New Zealand have been thinking about this.”
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