The LIS Program is pleased to announce the graduation of Dr. Shanye Kauwela Valeho-Novikoff. She completed her CIS dissertation “Aloha ʻĀina in the Library and Information Science Program: Understanding and Being a Hawaiian Place of Learning.” This is the first dissertation to focus on the intersection of librarianship and Hawaiian values, and should help guide the LIS Program as we move forward on this important project of continuing to develop as a Native Hawaiian place of learning. “Auntie Shanye” was the founding advisor of Nā Hawaiʻi ʻImi Loa. She currently is the Learning and Innovations Officer at Kamehameha Schools Maui campus. Before that she was Head Librarian at the Midkiff Learning Center at the KS Kapālama campus and prior to that was Director of the Lono me Laka Resource Center at UHM’s Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge.
Hauʻoli ka Hui LIS e kūkala i ka puka ʻana o Kauka Shanye Kauwela Valeho-Novikoff. Ua paʻa kāna pepa laeʻula iā ia i kapa ʻia ʻo “Aloha ʻĀina in the Library and Information Science Program: Understanding and Being a Hawaiian Place of Learning.” ʻO kēia ka pepa laeʻula mua loa e kia ana i ka pilina ma waena o nā mea mālama waihona puke a me nā kuleana ʻike Hawaiʻi, a e kōkua ana ia i ka papahana LIS i kō kākou holemua ʻana e lilo i wahi kahua kula naʻauao o Hawaiʻi. ʻO ʻĀnake Shayne ka mea kauleo mua loa no Nā Hawaiʻi ʻImi Loa. Ma kēia wā, ʻo ia nō ka Luna no ke Aʻo ʻana a me ka Hoʻokumu ʻana ma ke Kula o Kamehameha ma Maui; i ka wā ma mua, ʻo ia ka Luna Waihona Puke ma ka Hale Aʻo o Midkiff ma ke Kula o Kamehameha ma Kapālama, a i ka wā ma mua o ia, ʻo ia ka Luna ma ka Waihona Puke o Lono me Laka ma ke Kula ʻIke Hawaiʻi o Hawaiʻinuiākea.