{"id":8398,"date":"2025-02-21T13:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T23:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/?p=8398"},"modified":"2025-07-20T14:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:42:14","slug":"8398","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/8398\/","title":{"rendered":"LIS Alumni and Students Make the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our congratulations and kudos to LIS alumni and students who made the news in the 2024 and 2025 editions of Hawaii Library Association\u02bbs Kolekole. Please visit the linked issues of the newsletter to read the full articles.<\/p>\n<p>Carina Chernisky Receives 糖心Vlog官方 Regents\u2019 Medal <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1DkldTEPmSOCBKAatfrJC_rzDFjY6ckVf\/view?usp=sharing\">(Spring 2025 issue)<\/a><br \/>\nCarina Chernisky, public services librarian at James and Abigail Campbell Library at 糖心Vlog官方 West Oahu (糖心Vlog官方WO), was awarded the Regents\u2019 Medal for Excellence in Teaching in May 2024. She received this recognition for her outstanding leadership in teaching information literacy at 糖心Vlog官方WO. Carina\u2019s innovative approaches include an asynchronous Research and Writing Skills worikshop series and numerous synchronous library workshops each semester.<\/p>\n<p>Jenny Silbiger Assumes National Office <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1x8lhqvRIkof8mXWP7HYDDQ_tfs_RkmiB\/view?usp=sharing\">(Fall 2024 issue)<\/a><br \/>\nJenny Fujinaka Silbiger, Hawai\u2018i State Law Librarian, is the President-Elect of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). A 2009 LIS graduate, she is the first law libarian from Hawai\u2018i to serve as the association president. AALL was founded in 1906 and has over 3400 members.<br \/>\nJenny will serve as vice president of AALL in 2025 and assume the presidency in July 2026 as she presides over the annual conference in Toledo, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>HSPLS Librarians of the Year <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1x8lhqvRIkof8mXWP7HYDDQ_tfs_RkmiB\/view?usp=sharing\">(Fall 2024 issue)<\/a><br \/>\nThe Hawai\u2018i State Public Library System (HSPLS) recognized three individuals as Librarians of the Year in a ceremony on February 28, 2024 at the Hawai\u2018i State Library in Honolulu. This annual event is sponsored by the Friends of the Library of Hawai\u2018i. To make up for the hiatus during the pandemic, three winners were honored.<br \/>\nTamara Martinez King (2012 LIS graduate), Branch Manager, Kahuku Public and School Library, O\u2018ahu.<br \/>\nElizabeth (Betsy) Knight (2011 LIS graduate), Juvenile and Young Adult Librarian, Makawao Public Library, Maui.<br \/>\nSusan Nakata (1983 LIS graduate), Head of Library and Development Services Section, O\u2018ahu.<\/p>\n<p>Preserving Material from Maui Fires <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1x8lhqvRIkof8mXWP7HYDDQ_tfs_RkmiB\/view?usp=sharing\">(Fall 2024 issue)<\/a><br \/>\nLiane Na\u2018auao, paper conservator, and Malia Van Heukelem, art archivist, who are both on staff at Hamilton Library, received the President\u02bbs Award from the American Institute for Conservation for their efforts to preserve material damaged in the Maui fires. In the weeks and months after the fires, they shared their knowledge in mitigating damage to culturally important materials. Liane and Malia are 2023 and 2014 LIS alumnae respectively.<\/p>\n<p>HLA Award Recipient <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1x8lhqvRIkof8mXWP7HYDDQ_tfs_RkmiB\/view?usp=sharing\">(Fall 2024 issue)<\/a><br \/>\nLIS student Morgan Schmidt received the 2024 Hawai\u2018i Library Association\u2019s Student Success Award. This $1000 award, which includes a year of HLA membership, may be used to participate in an HLA conference or continuing education activity described in the award application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our congratulations and kudos to LIS alumni and students who made the news in the 2024 and 2025 editions of Hawaii Library Association\u02bbs Kolekole. Please visit the linked issues of the newsletter to read the full articles. Carina Chernisky Receives 糖心Vlog官方 Regents\u2019 Medal (Spring 2025 issue) Carina Chernisky, public services librarian at James and Abigail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8401,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8398\/revisions\/8401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}