Throughout his career Gordon Yusko worked in and with libraries and the communities they serve, in most regions of BC. From 2022 to 2025 he was the Program Administrator at Simon Fraser University’s Indigenous Student Centre.
As a retiree, through Write to Read BC he continues to work for libraries in isolated communities across the province. He supports the co-leads, Bob Blacker and Dr Shirley-Pat Gale.
From 2012 to 2019, Yusko served on a program that supports Indigenous community efforts to preserve records that document their cultural and social history, as well as their Indigenous languages. By 2019 over 35 Indigenous communities had received training and financial assistance, through a collaboration between the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC, the UBC iSchool, the Museum of Anthropology, and similar programs in Washington state, USA.
Yusko also helped guide a NOIIE funding partnership for dozens of teachers of kindergarten to grade 12 students. NOIIE, or Network of Inquiry and Indigenous Education, supports further education of Indigenous students in culturally sensitive ways by using a variety of creative programs.
Write to Read BC’s work has been similarly supportive by equipping the libraries it installs with learning centres that can offer remote attendance at courses and conferences, online.