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Welcome to Our New Project Assistant, Kyle Hart!

We are very excited to welcome Kyle Hart to our Ka Wai Hāpai Project Team! Kyle is joining our team as a Research Assistant to help formulate our remaining activities and project documentation before we wrap up on July 31, …

Reflections from ACRL 2023

Last week, Shavonn, Margaret and I attended the 2023 Association of College & Research Libraries Annual Conference. Discussions about remote learning, social justice, and sustainable work-life balance centered around the theme “Forging the Future.” Our poster, “Indigenous Knowledge Organization: A …

Project team members standing next to Punaluʻu ocean

Project Retreat Reflections

Last week (May 23-May 25), our Ka Wai Hāpai team held our first in-person retreat at Hale o Punaluʻu, one of the houses in Punaluʻu, Koʻolauloa, Oʻahu that belong to Kamehameha Schools. Fun fact! Punaluʻu is an entire ahupuaʻa that …

Welcome to Ka Wai Hāpai

Aloha pumehana kākou e nā hoa noiʻi nowelo! Aloha, everyone! It is our pleasure and privilege to introduce our project, Ka Wai Hāpai: Co-Creating Controlled Vocabularies for Social Justice. This two-year project, running August 2021 through July 2023, is generously …