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Item Print, profit and pedagogy: the school aids and text book publishing company(Saskatchewan Archives Board, 2008) Gagné, MaryLynnThe School Aids and Text Book Publishing Company operated in Saskatchewan from the early 1930s through to 1978. The company specialized in textbooks for the K-12 market, but also published several trade titles of Western Canadiana. This small prairie publishing firm was able to thrive through the Depression years and beyond by profiting from its association with a successful job printing plant, by employing local educators, artists, and amateur historians as writers, by marketing directly to teachers and to the provincial Department of Education, and by exploiting the crucial role that the authorized textbook played in classroom instruction during this time. Distinctive features of School Aids publications include a strong interest in and focus on the history of Aboriginal peoples on the prairies, incorporation of considerable local content, translation of homegrown textbooks into French, and suggestions of socialist influences. Winnipeg bookseller Jim Anderson referred to the School Aids and Text Book Publishing Company as "the most energetic and prolific of prairie school-book publishing firms." The story of this little known company represents a noteworthy chapter in the history of education and publishing in our province.Item University Library Report on the Ithaka S+R Study on Improving Library Resources and Services for Indigenous Studies Scholars: University of Saskatchewan Context(University Library, University of Saskatchewan, 2018-11) Lee, Deborah; Smith, David A.; Gagné, MaryLynnThe University of Saskatchewan (U of S) Library is one of twelve institutions across Turtle Island / North America participating in a project with the goal of understanding how academic libraries can best support the research needs of Indigenous faculty. The U of S report is based primarily on semi-structured interviews with eight Indigenous professors at the U of S, as conducted by three librarians. The participants represented diverse backgrounds culturally, in their fields of study, and in terms of their years of experience as faculty members in the academy. Indigenous and Western research methodologies were incorporated in the development of this project, including: a grounded theory component which helped shape the analysis of the interviews, the encouragement of conversation and storytelling, multiple opportunities for consent, and an effort to meet the standards of Ownership, Control, Access and Possession of research data as delineated by the First Nations Information Governance Centre. Findings include: a lack of use of subject headings by Indigenous Studies scholars; requests for more oral histories (and access to them), more governmental and non-governmental organization reports and more Métis content; better access to Indigenous-related archival materials; and a strong demand for Data and GIS Library services. Recommendations are also included.