Holdings from colonial contexts can be found in many libraries. They include books, manuscripts, photographs, films, sound recordings, and archival materials that were created in connection with colonial rule, knowledge production, and cultural appropriation, or that document colonial perspectives and power relations.
This guide offers libraries a practice-oriented orientation for dealing with such holdings. It deals with questions of provenance research, collection presentation and digital provision, acquisition as well as cataloguing and metadata work.
Legal, ethical and organisational aspects are taken into account as well as the inclusion of different perspectives and the importance of international cooperation.
