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鈥榠 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鈥檚 degrees, in Library Studies and Linguistics, from the University of Hawai鈥榠 at Ma虅noa. 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鈥榠 at Ma虅noa. The accompanying intersectional feminist analysis aims to examine the unique positionalities Horie embodied, and extract insights from her experience. Horie鈥檚 life and work turn out to be an excellent example for all librarians who wish to take a social justice stance in their careers.
