{"id":8693,"date":"2021-12-21T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/?p=8693"},"modified":"2025-08-14T22:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T08:01:17","slug":"edna-allyn-room-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/edna-allyn-room-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Edna Allyn Room for Children, Hawai\u02bbi State Public Library"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Location: 478 S. King St. Honolulu, HI, 96813<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Internship Description<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

An Edna Allyn Room (EAR) internship focuses on children\u2019s library services, collection maintenance (selection, ordering and weeding), and programming such as Storytimes, class visits and outreach. The intern would work ten hours a week & be scheduled for some hours at the Children\u2019s Help Desk with a librarian after orientation & training. The intern will also help the librarians present programs and input information on order lists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Library\/Collection Description<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Hawai\u02bbi State Library is the flagship of the Hawai\u02bbi State Public Library System. The Edna Allyn Room for Children (EAR) has 2 full-time librarians, two part-time librarians, a technician and a student helper and holds 85,000 children\u2019s materials. We have daily class visits where storytimes and\/or tours are given. We also present \u201cfamily storytimes\u201d every Saturday morning. We have a children\u2019s computer center, help desk and a large reference collection. The Edna Allyn Memorial Collection is unique to our library as is our Mural Room painted by Juliet May Fraser in 1934-35.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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