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Library and Information Science Program

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Announcing the 2024-2025 Blair Award Recipients

LIS students Kerri Glickstein, Serina Kerbaugh, and Keeley Terpstra have been selected as the Fall 2024 recipients of the Robert and Rita Blair Memorial Award, and Rachel Jacobson and Brooke Jones were selected as the Spring 2025 recipients. This award is presented to graduating students who show special promise in providing library services to children and youth. The LIS faculty select awardees based on high academic standing and strong evidence of professional leadership.

For a course project, Glickstein and Terpstra collaborated to create maker kits for the Lānaʻi Public & School Library. A resident of Lānaʻi, Glickstein observed the lack of craft stores and places to buy greeting cards. Terpstra researched best practices for maker kits, Glickstein partnered with the Maui Friends of the Library to cover supplies, and together they produced kits for the community to make greeting cards, origami, and crochet projects as well as explore engineering concepts using Snap Circuits. In her ePortfolio Glickstein remarked that the Maker Kits are “still being used regularly, especially by students in the upper elementary and middle school grades.”

Kerbaugh completed a school library practicum at Likelike Elementary School and an internship at Waiʻanae Public Library. She also volunteered for several LIS and school library projects, such as serving as a tour guide for library club students from Honouliuli Middle School on their visit to the ��Vlog�ٷ� Mānoa Hamilton Library. Kerbaugh reflected, “Receiving this award is a welcome reminder of how much I love helping and working with younger people. I feel inspired to continue this important work and create engaging, accessible, and inclusive library spaces.”

In their academic journey, Terpstra developed resources to enrich the reading experiences for children and tweens. They collaborated with Dianne Pang, librarian at Kaimuki Middle School, to expand Pang’s collection of Hawaiian and LGBTQ+ materials for this age group. In another course, they devised a unique pathfinder of recipe books for youngsters that included a section inspired by literature. Their projects reflect both creativity and resourcefulness. As they move forward, Terpstra wants to support the inclusion of indigenous knowledge within library collections. They state: “Being a librarian is not just about managing information; it is about fostering relationships, understanding community needs, and advocating for those who have been, and continue to be, sidelined.”

As a student, Jones was an active member of the Hawaiʻi Library Association (HLA) Advocacy Committee. Jones was instrumental in spearheading the inaugural Hawaiʻi Love My Library Day in 2023. As the event co-chair, she played a pivotal role in developing this new event, aimed at raising awareness about the importance of libraries across the state of Hawaiʻi, featuring sign-waving, activities for families, and raffle prizes from local companies. Jones also completed an internship at Pearl City Public Library where she focused on children’s services, offering storytime programs and assisting patrons at the children’s reference desk.

Jacobson was also an active student member of the HLA Advocacy Committee, and organized the second Love My Library Day in 2024. In this role she coordinated volunteers, fundraised, publicized the event, and even emceed it. In reflecting on this experience in her ePortfolio, Jacobson remarks, “This experience not only provided an invaluable opportunity to collaborate with an amazing group of librarians, but also offered firsthand insight into the intricacies of event planning and volunteer management.” Jacobson also gained further practical experience during her practicum at Ahuimanu Elementary School where she designed and delivered information literacy instruction, created book displays to promote a love for reading, and supported collection development.

September 18, 2025
LIS Students Help Raise Over $5K to Support School Librarianship

Students in Dr. Wertheimer’s LIS 650 Management of Libraries and Information Centers class this spring completed service projects in the local community to practice their managerial skills. Jennifer Duncklee, Michelle Hatami, Lori Misaka, and Jesse Shiroma worked with Kalani High School librarian Daphne Miyashiro to raise funds for the Hawai‘i Association of School Librarians (HASL). Daphne was the HASL National Library Week chair, and set up a fundraiser at Barnes & Noble; the LIS student group helped coordinate marketing, scheduled volunteers, created promotional and advocacy materials, and worked at the book fair. They are pleased to report that this year’s fundraising total is $5056.46 from in-store and online sales, which will go toward supporting HASL’s efforts for school libraries. A big mahalo to the volunteers, Barnes & Noble, and Daphne for helping to make Jenn, Michelle, Lori, and Jesse’s project a success!

Other student team projects included a “Lei Making 101” event at a local library (Kylee Munro & Jessika Ross), WCDI / Salawaket Crossing (Michelle Carino), “Ka Hana Mana a Nā Haumāna”(Ikaika Keliiliki), and creating a plan for a STEM-lego event on a Hawaii Island Public Library (Hayley Barte, Bianca Nabarrete-Lopez, & Bonnie Barron). Wertheimer explained that these projects highlight our program’s interest in community engagement and also let students experiment with doing real-world projects and employing different managerial competencies. He added that all of these projects demonstrate the importance of developing leaders who can help libraries to meet local problems with innovative solutions.

May 12, 2022
Jason Ford defends thesis “Indigenous Voices Informing Academic Information Literacy: Critical Discourses, Relationality, and Indigeneity for the Good of the Whole”

The LIS Program is pleased to announce that Jason Ford successfully defended his thesis on how Indigenous research methodologies can better inform information literacy. His abstract follows:

Instructional librarianship in public post-secondary institutions requires that librarians be responsive to a diversity of paradigms and student needs, including Indigenous contexts. Although constrained by institutional infrastructures, Indigenous research methodologies and epistemologies provide frameworks for Indigenous students and librarians to practice and support inquiry in ways that are responsive to their culturally- specific needs. Currently, research in library and information science about how Indigenous research methodologies and epistemologies can support academic librarianship is limited, especially concerning how Indigenous voices can inform information literacy as a whole. Using semi-structured interviews, 4 Indigenous LIS and academic professionals and an Apache-Comanche elder were interviewed to better understand how Indigenous voices can inform information literacy in the public academy. Responses were coded using thematic analysis, and results demonstrate that Indigenous voices can inform information literacy in consideration of relevancy, value neutrality, positionality, through being critical of hegemonic infrastructures including technology, prioritizing native voices, and centering relationality. This has implications in strategic planning, curriculum development, and informing social paradigms that support Indigenous people in post-secondary education while addressing modern issues for the good of the whole.

Committee: Tonia Sutherland (Chair), Meera Garud, Keahiahi LongCongratulations, Jason!

May 6, 2022
Fall 2021 Blair Award Recipients: Sarah Arzate and Lauren Nielsen

Sarah Arzate and Lauren Nielsen are the fall 2021 recipients of the Robert and Rita Blair Memorial Award. This coveted award is presented to graduating students who show special promise in providing library services to children and youth. The LIS faculty select the awardees based on high academic standing and strong evidence of professional leadership.

While a student in the LIS program, Sarah Arzate has been focused on children’s services via co-founding The Makana Aniani Hawai`i Children’s Book Award program, and fostering a collaborative community of practice with colleagues via working with the ��Vlog�ٷ�M LIS student group, Hui Dui. Sarah’s interests have involved school media and public library services. We look forward to more amazing contributions to the LIS profession from Sarah, throughout her career.

Nielsen served as president of Hui Dui, holding virtual events and a virtual student graduation ceremony during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a practicum student in the Sacred Hearts Academy Elementary Library, she and her cooperating librarian, Laurel Oshiro, collaborated to genrefy the collection to make it easier for students and teachers to find books by topic. Lauren and Laurel are co-presenting about these efforts at the upcoming fall 2021 conference of the Hawaiʻi Library Association and the Pacific Islands Association of Libraries, Archives, and Museums.

November 24, 2021
LIS Student Jade Sunouchi Receives 2021 HLA Scholarship

A belated congratulations to our student, Jade Sunouchi, for receiving the 2021 HLA Student Scholarship! Jade is studying to become an academic librarian and serves as an officer for the student chapter of ALA.

HLA awards one $1,000 student scholarship annually, with one year free membership to HLA.

June 15, 2021
Hinaikawaihiʻilei Keala Receives Josephine Forman Scholarship from Society of American Archivists

Hinaikawaihiʻilei Keala is the of the sponsored by the General Commission on Archives and History of the United Methodist Church, in cooperation with the Society of American Archivists (SAA). The $10,000 scholarship provides financial support to minority students pursuing graduate education in archival science, encourages students to pursue careers as archivists, and promotes the diversification of the American archives profession.

Keala is pursuing a dual master’s degree in Hawaiian studies and library and information science with an Archives Certification at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She is a graduate research assistant for Native Hawaiian Student Services at the university, a student service office under the Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge that offers culture-based and experiential learning opportunities for Native Hawaiian students. Keala oversees the officeʻs Kekaulike internship program and assists with programming. Her passion for preserving Hawaiian culture and history led her to pursue a career in archives. Seeing a need for the Hawaiian language to be present in archival access points, she is focused on preserving and providing access to Hawaiian-language archival materials for the Indigenous community.

Keala has devoted her career to serving her community and Hawaiian people. As one of her recommenders wrote, “She engages in the work she does because she cares about issues of justice and humanity and wants to see positive changes made in our community. As such, an investment in Keala is an investment in the larger communities of Hawaiʻi that she is committed to and will continue to work in service for.”

The Josephine Forman Scholarship was established in 2010 and is named for Josephine Forman, who served as archivist for eighteen years at the Southwest Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church.

(Text provided courtesy of SAA: https://www2.archivists.org/node/25427)

June 14, 2021
Sidney Louie Receives Donald Peterson Student Travel Award from Society of American Archivists

Sidney Louie, a graduate student in the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Library and Information Science Program, is the of the given by the Society of American Archivists (SAA). The award supports students and recent graduates from graduate archival programs within North America to attend SAA’s Annual Meeting. The goal of the scholarship is to stimulate greater participation in the activities of SAA, such as presenting research or actively participating in an SAA-sponsored committee or section.

After working for thirty years in event and media marketing, Louie transitioned to archival studies. She works part time as a project assistant at ’Ulu’ulu: The Henry Ku’ualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive of Hawai’i at the University of Hawai’i – West O’ahu where she processes, describes, catalogs, and preserves several television programs containing Hawaiian cultural content. During the virtual Annual Meeting, Louie will participate in events hosted by the Committee on Public Awareness and Diversity Committee to connect and build networks with archivists outside Hawai’i.

Louie possesses intelligence, creativity, and a passion for preserving archives. Her supporter notes that they are “impressed by Louie’s passion for film and audiovisual media and her deep respect for the archival Hawaiian and Pacific cultural materials.”

The Donald Peterson Student Travel Award was established in 2005 and honors the memory of New York lawyer and philatelist Donald Peterson. Past recipients include Jeanie Pai (Queens College), Alexis Recto (University of California, Los Angeles), and Jessica Serrao (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).

June 10, 2021
2021 Blair Award Recipients: Alita Charron and Phuong Nguyen

Alita Charron and Phuong Nguyen are the spring 2021 recipients of the Robert and Rita Blair Memorial Award. This coveted award is presented to graduating students who show special promise in providing library services to children and youth. The LIS faculty select awardees based on high academic standing and strong evidence of professional leadership.

Completing a practicum at Aina Haina Elementary Library during the COVID-19 pandemic, Charron created engaging and informative materials for students and teachers on topics such as using eBooks and copyright. Throughout her time in LIS, she participated in sessions held by the Hawaii Association of School Librarians (HASL), the Hawaii Library Association (HLA), and the ��Vlog�ٷ� Information Literacy Committee. She also presented a poster titled “Collaborative Partnerships” at the fall 2017 joint HASL/HLA conference. Most recently, Charron designed school library advocacy materials for HASL’s National Library Week program.

Nguyen was actively involved in student leadership, serving on two LIS student organizations. As vice president of Hui Dui and secretary for the ALA Hawaii student chapter, she continued to build camaraderie during the pandemic by helping shift from in-person activities. In her capstone ePortfolio, Nguyen wrote, “Librarians are friends to the community, and I want to be on the other side of the desk at the library and help others start their own adventure and journey as their friend.” Most recently, Nguyen is getting experience in youth services, creating book talks and book trailers during her internship at Kaimuki Public Library.

May 5, 2021
��Vlog�ٷ� Mānoa LIS Students Speed Networking with Hawai‘i LIS Professionals at the 2020 HLA/HASL Conference

On December 5, 2020, 18 ��Vlog�ٷ�M LIS students, along with 10 LIS professionals from academic, school, public, and special libraries on Oahu, participated in a virtual speed networking event. Students had an hour to move among Zoom breakout rooms, in the hopes of connecting with as many professionals as possible in a meaningful way.

��Vlog�ٷ� Mānoa LIS student Stephanie Robertson worked with LIS instructor Meera Garud to plan and run this event. To make sure conversations stayed focused, Robertson and Garud provided two questions relevant to students in the midst of crafting their careers during this unprecedented time: “How has your role in the library pivoted because of COVID 19?” and “What skills have you needed to sharpen or gain as a result of that shift?” Students were also free to ask and discuss other questions they brought to the event.

In the end, the LIS professionals made this event a success, using this event as a platform for LIS students to make meaningful connections, in spite of the challenges of Zoom fatigue and uncertainty in the profession because of the pandemic. The LIS professionals facilitating the breakout rooms, many of whom were alumni, generously shared the knowledge they had developed over time. When surveyed, the students reported feeling comfortable, inspired, and motivated to work hard in order to be a successful member of the thriving library community in Hawai‘i.

Huge thanks are due to the following LIS professionals who made this event a success!

Annie Thomas, Acting Head Librarian at the Kapiolani Community College Library
Brian Huffman, Electronic Services Librarian at the ��Vlog�ٷ� Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law
Darren Tanaka, Librarian at Kailua Elementary School
David Wee who is Mid-Pacific Institute’s (Pk-12 independent school) Director of Library and Media Services
Helen Wong Smith, Archivist for University Records at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Janel Quirante, Head Archivist at ‘Ulu‘Ulu Moving Image Archive University of Hawai‘i – West O‘ahu
Mary Campany, Collections Librarian at the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i
Natalie Wahl, Instruction Librarian from the Leeward Community College Library
Sheryl Lynch, Branch Manager at Waianae Public Library
Tamara King, Branch Manager at Kahuku Public and School Library

January 5, 2021
FA20 LIS 694 Student Videos: Paul Ryan, ��Vlog�ٷ�M College of Education by Michelle Carino

Students in Dr. Gazan’s Fall 2020 course LIS 694 Visions of the Library were asked to tell the story of how an LIS student or professional found their way into the field. Building on a 60-second Zoom interview with their subjects, students used edits, images, graphics, transitions and sounds to create short digital videos, and explored the roles and responsibilities of a filmmaker/editor in communicating someone else’s story.

In this video, Michelle Carino interprets the story of Paul Ryan, Technology & Distance Programs (Tech Lead) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Education, and a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin School of Information.

View the full video:

December 16, 2020
Halie Kerns Recognized with Blair Award

Halie Kerns was recognized as the Fall 2020 recipient of the Robert and Rita Blair Memorial Award. This coveted award is presented to graduating students who show special promise in providing library services to children and youth. The LIS faculty select awardees based on high academic standing and strong evidence of professional leadership.

In her e-portfolio, Kerns wrote, “Throughout my time in the LIS program, I have focused many of my studies on building diverse collections and striving for culturally competent librarianship.” She is demonstrating this as a graduate intern with the non-profit organization, . She and fellow student Jade Sunouchi also recently wrote on a Seed Library project in the most recent.

Congratulations, Halie!

December 1, 2020
LIS Faculty and Students Active at HLA/HASL Annual Conference

LIS faculty and students will again be well represented at next month’s HLA/HASL Annual Conference, which will be held virtually via Zoom this year. Students giving presentations and poster sessions include Minyoung Chung, Lilla Faint, Jason Ford, Ashley Forester, Halie Kerns, Stephanie Robertson and CIS student Stacy Naipo. Faculty presentations include Gwen Sinclair (“Capturing Library Stories: the Past, Present, and Future in the HLA Newsletter”) and Andrew Wertheimer (“The Short and Tragic Fate of the Fushimi Japanese Collection at the Library of Hawaiʻi, 1936-1942”). You can for individual titles and dates and times.

Our own Meera Garud and Violet Harada were also busy on the conference planning committee. LIS student Stephanie Robertson is also organizing a Speed Networking event for other LIS students with local leaders.

To support them, you can register for the virtual conference (Dec. 4-6) here: https://2020hlahasl.weeblysite.com/product/registration/6

November 23, 2020
LIS Student Ellen-Rae Cachola Receives Prestigious Fellowship

Congratulations to LIS student, Ellen-Rae Cachola! She has been selected as one of 15 Fellows for the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion, and Cultural Heritage, which seeks to enhance understandings of multicultural collections among professionals, local community members, and the broader public.

In addition to being an LIS student, Ellen also works as an Evening Supervisor & Archives Manager at the ��Vlog�ٷ�M Law Library and lecturer for the Department of Ethnic Studies. She is the granddaughter of Ilocano plantation workers and is the mentee of Hawaiian demilitarization organizers. Through her work in libraries, archives, and instruction, she uses information to shed light on how systems of oppression, such as imperialism and settler colonialism, affect different communities, and stages opportunities for decolonial dialogue and intersectional organizing.

These Fellows were chosen from a highly competitive field of more than sixty applicants by a committee comprised of leading cultural heritage professionals. The selected fellows will work closely with a spectrum of multicultural collections.

More information about the Fellowship is available at: https://ebookschool.org/admissions-awards/fellowships/mellon-diversity

Read more: https://rarebookschool.org/admissions-awards/fellowships/mellon-diversity/rbs-mellon-cultural-heritage-fellows-for-2020-2022/

April 21, 2020
Congratulations to the HLA 2020 Scholarship Winners!

Congratulations to LIS student Minyoung Chung and LIS alumna Gailyn Bopp, winners of this year’s Hawaii Library Association Student and Professional Scholarships! This announcement would normally be made at the HLA Spring Meeting, but due to COVID-19 concerns, this year HLA has opted to share a short bio and information about the award for each recipient online:

Student Scholarship: Minyoung Chung – awarded $1,000.00 and a one year membership to HLA for free.

During my undergraduate studies, I majored in both psychology and library information science at the Ewha Woman’s University in South Korea. Through the Korea Foundation, I completed a fellowship at the Center for Korean Studies at ��Vlog�ٷ� Mānoa in 2018. Currently, I am in my second semester in the LIS program at ��Vlog�ٷ� Mānoa with a focus in academic/archival tracks and now I am doing an internship with the Government documents collection. As a member of HLA, I recently presented about the North Korean Collection at ��Vlog�ٷ� Mānoa at the recent HLA conference in Kauai. I am now working on a North Korean special collections project to increase accessibility by putting them into an institutional repository. I believe the way in which records are preserved, searched for, used, shared and published shapes our memory of the dynamics of culture and history. I am passionate about ensuring the accessibility to materials, service, and community to help create a diverse environment of information with responsibility and ethics of care.

Professional Scholarship: Gailyn Bopp – awarded $499 to attend the Exhibits Fundamentals online course through the Northern States Conservation Center, from October 5 to November 13, 2020.

Gailyn Bopp works as Associate Archivist for the BYU-Hawai`i JFS Library Archives & Special Collections, and as Assistant Professor of Theatre in the BY��Vlog�ٷ� Faculty of Language, Culture, and the Performing Arts. She is a proud alumna of the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa LIS program, graduating with a certificate in Archival Studies. Gailyn enjoys theatrical performance, exhibit curation, and traditional Hawaiian craft. She currently serves as President-elect of the Association of Hawai`i Archivists.

Congratulations to both Minyoung and Gailyn. We’re so proud of both of you!

April 15, 2020
Vanda Moore Wins LIS Blair Award

Congratulations to Vanda Moore, the fall 2019 recipient of the Robert and Rita Blair Memorial Award. This coveted award is presented to graduating students who show special promise in providing library services to children and youth. The LIS faculty select the awardees based on high academic standing and strong evidence of professional leadership.

Vanda has served as secretary of the Progressive Librarians Guild student chapter at ��Vlog�ٷ� Manoa. In addition, she volunteered at the Barr Memorial Library in Fort Knox, Kentucky.

Vanda is a recipient of the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, with a focus on Indonesian. Throughout her time at LIS, she worked as a library assistant at the Sunset Reference Center, as an archives and manuscripts student assistant with the Hamilton Library Archives, and as a cataloguing assistant with Hamilton Library.

December 16, 2019
Valerie Shaindlin Defends Thesis

Congratulations to Fall 2018 semester LIS student Valerie Shaindlin on her successful thesis defense!

Title
Ruth Horie: An Oral History Biography and Feminist Analysis

Abstract
This thesis is an oral history biography of Ruth Horie (1950- ), a Japanese American librarian in Honolulu, Hawai‘i whose work centered mainly on preserving and providing access to Native Hawaiian materials. Primarily a cataloger, Horie was one of the rare librarians who understood Hawaiian, a critically endangered language. She earned her undergraduate degree in Hawaiian Studies and two master’s degrees, in Library Studies and Linguistics, from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She worked for a decade as a reference librarian at the East-West Center and Bishop Museum, and then spent twenty-two years as a cataloger at Hamilton Library at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. The accompanying intersectional feminist analysis aims to examine the unique positionalities Horie embodied, and extract insights from her experience. Horie’s life and work turn out to be an excellent example for all librarians who wish to take a social justice stance in their careers.

December 13, 2018
Laila Brown Defends Thesis

Congratulations to Fall 2018 semester LIS student Laila Brown on her successful thesis defense!

Title
Enacting Critical Feminist Librarianship: Examining LIS Book Clubs as a Means of Collaborative Inquiry and Professional Value Formation

Abstract
This master’s thesis presents an examination of the meaning and significance of dialogic exploration of texts in book club settings among Library and Information Science (LIS) master’s students at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (��Vlog�ٷ�M). I conducted participant observation among the feminist Books by Women Book Club and the progressive and diversity-ethic oriented ��Vlog�ٷ�M LIS Book Club and interviewed several members in each group. In this study, I sought to achieve an understanding of the creative, constitutive, and generative processes of these two book clubs. This study illuminates three essential elements of student participation in these value-driven and library and information science-intentioned book clubs. Firstly, these book clubs function as communities of practice that offer emerging LIS professionals networks of interpersonal and professional support. Secondly, these book clubs complement and supplement LIS classroom pedagogy, thereby contributing to member professional learning and knowledge. Thirdly, these book clubs contribute to the development of members’ personal and professional values and philosophy. Through focused exploration of textual content espousing the values upon which these book clubs are predicated—namely feminism and critical librarianship—these book clubs enable student participants to explore, negotiate, and enact such values in the book clubs, and to continue to do so in their future professional practice.

November 8, 2018
Gailyn Bopp Receives Award from SAA

Gailyn Lehuanani Bopp, a graduate student at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, is a 2016 recipient of the Harold T. Pinkett Minority Student Award given by the Society of American Archivists (SAA). The award will be presented at a ceremony during the Joint Annual Meeting of SAA and the Council of State Archivists in Atlanta, July 31–August 6.

The award recognizes minority graduate students of African, Asian, Latino, or Native American descent who, through scholastic achievement, manifest an interest in becoming professional archivists and active members of SAA. (more…)

June 1, 2016
LIS Students Receive Smithsonian Internships

Allyson Ota and Keala Richard have been awarded stipends through the Smithsonian Minority Awards Program to participate in a summer program for interns. The program runs from June 6 through August 12, 40 hours each week, at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. The awards pay the interns $6000 for the ten-week program with an additional $600 for travel. (more…)

April 26, 2016
Wrayna Fairchild Receives Teacher Innovator Award

LIS student Wrayna Fairchild was one of ten educators nationwide to be selected by The Henry Ford organization as recipients of the Teacher Innovator Award. The award recognizes educators who are inspiring innovation, creativity, problem solving and critical thinking among their students.
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September 1, 2015
Meera Garud’s Study Abroad Program

LIS student Meera Garud is participating in a study abroad program, Developing Services for a Knowledge-Based Economy through Namibian Libraries, through the University of Maryland’s iSchool. She and four other LIS graduate students from UMD, Drexel University, and the University of Rhode Island will spend two weeks meeting Namibia’s leaders in library development, higher education and information infrastructure. Students also will have contact with local citizens and staff at two regional centers at which information services and training are offered for citizens.
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August 6, 2015
Alumni and Students Play Large Role in Inaugural Hawaiʻi Digital Resources Symposium

On August 1, 2014 at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa – Hamilton Library, the first ever Hawaiʻi Digital Resources Symposium was held.

Many of the presenters were our own ��Vlog�ٷ� LIS graduates and current students! The presenters were Keikilani Meyer (current MLIS Student) and Lokoʻolu Quintero for the , Keau George and Annemarie Aweau (Archivist & MLIS Graduate) for the , Shavonn Matsuda (Assistant Archivist & MLIS Graduate) for the ʻ and Martha Chantiny (Librarian & Head ��Vlog�ٷ�M, DNS), Jennifer Beamer (current MLIS Student & former ) and Alice Kim (Graduate Student and MLIS Graduate) for the .

The event was well attended with approximately 60 participants and sponsored by the

August 6, 2014
Tori Ann Ogawa Wins HASL Scholarship

Tori Ann Ogawa received a $500 scholarship from the Hawaii Association of School Librarians this semester. She was recognized at the HASL Conference held at Kamehameha Schools in March. Tori serves as secretary for both the ALA Student Chapter and Hui Dui.

Along with being an active LIS student, Tori is a part time teacher for the English Language Learner program at Aliamanu Elementary School where she helps students in grades K, 2, 4, and 5 practice reading and learn strategies and phonics to improve their word recognition and comprehension skills. In her lesson plans, she integrates reading across multiple disciplines. Tori enjoys baking and line dancing in her spare time. Congratulations, Tori!

March 9, 2014
SLA-ASIST’s Student Chapter Poster Mini-Conference Winners

Congratulations to Shavonn-haevyn Matsuda and Keahiahi Long on taking first place in SLA-ASIST’s Student Chapter Poster Mini-Conference with a prize of $100.00 for their poster “Conceptualizing a Hawaiian Digital Library.” This session took place December 7 in the Heritage Reading Room at Sinclair Library. All students from LIS, ICS, and CIS were welcome to present their research. We would also like to acknowledge Christine Young who took second place along with Susan Davidson and Christina Shin who took third place. Thank you to all who participated, to our advisers Dr. Gazan, Dr. Nahl, and Dr. Quiroga, to our adjudicators and to our board members who worked hard in sponsoring this event. The posters will be displayed in the LIS Commons.

December 17, 2012
Vornholt funded for institute on visual resource management

Sarah Vornholt received funding from the ��Vlog�ٷ�M Graduate Student Organization to attend the Summer Education Institute for Visual Resource Management at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, June 19 through 22. The GSO awarded Sarah $595 to cover the institute’s fee. The institute is being sponsored by the Visual Resource Association and the Art Library Society of North America.

In applying for the grant, Sarah emphasized that the LIS Program did not have courses directly related to visual resource management (digital images) and that knowledge in this field would improve her chances of obtaining a job as an art librarian. Sarah said, “I am grateful the GSO recognized the educational quality of this institute.”

November 24, 2012