Cheryl Metoyer-Duran

Metoyer holds bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees from Immaculate Heart College. Metoyer received her doctoral degree in library and information science from Indiana University in 1976.

Metoyer has served on faculty at a number of universities in the United States. She is currently an Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington. She was previously on faculty at the UCLA Graduate School of Library and Information Science. She was the Chief Academic Affairs Officer for the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation. From 1993 to 1997, Dr. Metoyer held the Rupert Costo Chair in American Indian History at the University of California, Riverside.{{Cite web| title = iSchool Directory {{!}} Information School, University of Washington| accessdate = 2018-10-02| url = https://ischool.uw.edu/people/faculty/profile/metoyer}}

Metoyer worked with numerous Indigenous groups to assist with the development of their libraries, archives and museums. She was Project Director at the National Indian Education Association where she worked with tribal and state agencies to plan and develop library services, including the Mashantucket Pequot, Cahuilla, San Manuel, Yakama, Navajo, Seneca, Mohawk and the Lakota nations

Metoyer has researched and developed Indigenous subject headings for use within library and information systems, including the Mashantucket Pequot Thesaurus Project where she acted as principal investigator. The thesaurus is intended to: "construct a user-centered thesaurus, designed to reflect the information-seeking behavior of scholars and researchers who study American Indian subjects."{{Cite web| title = Mashantucket Pequot Thesaurus Project| work = UCLA American Indian Studies Center: Research| accessdate = 2018-10-02| url = https://www.aisc.ucla.edu/research/mashantucket.aspx}}{{Cite web| title = AILA Subject Access and Classification / Thesauri| accessdate = 2018-10-02| url = http://ailasacc.pbworks.com/w/page/1597613/Thesauri}} It can be applied in a number of settings, including a museum setting as is demonstrated in an article by Littletree and Metoyer.{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1080/01639374.2015.1010113| issn = 0163-9374| volume = 53| issue = 5–6| pages = 640–657| last1 = Littletree| first1 = Sandra| last2 = Metoyer| first2 = Cheryl A.| title = Knowledge Organization from an Indigenous Perspective: The Mashantucket Pequot Thesaurus of American Indian Terminology Project| journal = Cataloging & Classification Quarterly| date = 2015-07-04| s2cid = 56524564}}

Using Indigenous worldviews and perspectives Metoyer's developed a taxonomy of gatekeeper theory in ethnolinguistic communities as a way to consider systems of control and their application within structures such as information systems.{{Cite book| publisher = Rowman & Littlefield| isbn = 978-1-4422-5012-3| last = Hastings| first = Samantha K.| title = Annual Review of Cultural Heritage Informatics: 2014| date = 2015-06-09}}

• The Joint Conference of Librarians of Color Legacy Award (2018){{Cite web| title = AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS Press Release| work = JCLC Conference 2018| accessdate = 2018-10-02| url = http://www.jclcinc.org/conference/2018/awards-and-scholarships-press-release/}}
• Rockefeller Fellowship in the Humanities (2006)

• Advisory Board, Newberry Library D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History
• The Southwest Museum
• The National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
• The National Endowment for the Humanities
• The U.S. Department of the Interior
• The National Museum of the American Indian
• The University of Arizona, Knowledge River Program.
• UW House of Knowledge Planning Committee.

• {{Cite journal| issn = 0740-8188| volume = 17| issue = 1| pages = 49–67| last1 = Metoyer-Duran| first1 = Cheryl| last2 = Hernon| first2 = Peter| title = Economic development on American Indian reservations: A citation analysis| journal = Library and Information Science Research| date = 1995| doi = 10.1016/0740-8188(95)90005-5}}
• {{Cite book| publisher = Ablex Pub. Corp.| last = Metoyer-Duran| first = Cheryl| title = Gatekeepers in ethnolinguistic communities| location = Norwood, N.J.| accessdate = 2018-10-02| date = 1993| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=d9bgAAAAMAAJ| isbn = 9780893918910}}
• {{Cite journal| issn = 0740-8188| volume = 13| issue = 4| pages = 319–46| last = Metoyer-Duran| first = Cheryl| title = Information-Seeking Behavior of Gatekeepers in Ethnolinguistic Communities: Overview of a Taxonomy.| journal = Library and Information Science Research| date = 1991}}
• Metoyer, Cheryl. (1976). American Indian Library Services—State of the Art Report. (ED161573). National Indian Education Association.
• {{Cite thesis| last = Metoyer-Duran| first = Cheryl| title = Perceptions of the Mohawk elementary students of library services provided by the National Indian Education Association library project as conducted on the Akwesasne (St. Regis) Mohawk reservation| date = 1976|degree=PhD}}
• {{Cite journal| issn = 0740-8188| volume = 16| issue = 2| pages = 105–18| last1 = Metoyer-Duran| first1 = Cheryl| last2 = Hernon| first2 = Peter| title = Problem Statements in Research Proposals and Published Research: A Case Study of Researchers' Viewpoints.| journal = Library and Information Science Research| date = 1994| doi = 10.1016/0740-8188(94)90003-5}}
• {{Cite journal| issn = 0099-1333| volume = 17| issue = 6| pages = 364–69| last = Metoyer-Duran| first = Cheryl| title = Tribal Community College Libraries: Perceptions of the College Presidents.| journal = Journal of Academic Librarianship| date = 1992}}
• {{Cite thesis| last1 = Chavez| first1 = Juan Carlos| last2 = Metoyer-Duran| first2 = Cheryl| title = Native American telecommunication independence: one step above smoke signals| date = 2017| hdl = 1773/38644| type = Thesis}}
• {{Cite thesis| last1 = Day| first1 = Sheryl A| last2 = Metoyer-Duran| first2 = Cheryl| title = Talking story: the militarization of Guåhan and flows of information in Chamoru systems of knowledge| date = 2017| hdl = 1773/38643| type = Thesis}}
• {{Cite journal| issn = 0161-6463| volume = 34| issue = 4| pages = 1–12| last = Metoyer-Duran| first = Cheryl| title = Leadership in American Indian communities: winter lessons.| journal = American Indian Culture and Research Journal| date = 2010| doi = 10.17953/aicr.34.4.m78g416545510r18| url = https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1xw53479}}
• {{Cite thesis| last1 = Chavez| first1 = Juan Carlos| last2 = Metoyer-Duran| first2 = Cheryl| title = Native American telecommunication independence: one step above smoke signals| date = 2017| hdl = 1773/38644| type = Thesis}}
• {{Cite AV media |people=Metoyer, Cheryl |title=In Our Camp: Relationality in Native American Knowledge Organization |accessdate=2018-10-02 |time=35:44 |url=https://library.usask.ca/metoyer/}}
• {{Cite journal |last1=Littletree |first1=Sandra |last2=Metoyer |first2=Cheryl |date=2015 |title=Knowledge organization from an Indigenous perspective: The Mashantucket Pequot Thesaurus of American Indian Terminology Project |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2015.1010113 |journal=Cataloging & Classification Quarterly |volume=53 |issue=5–6 |pages=640–657|doi=10.1080/01639374.2015.1010113 |s2cid=56524564 }}

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