Photo: Kylie Flood with Hawaiʻi State Librarian Stacey Aldrich and Governor Josh Green. Photo courtesy of Gov.Flickr. Kylie Kaʻeo Flood was honored as the Employee of the Year for the Hawaiʻi State Public Library System (HSPLS) at the Governor’s Award Ceremony on September 24, 2024. Kylie is the Hawaiian/ Pacific and Adult Librarian at the […]
Tori Ann Ogawa, an LIS alumna, was recently elected to the Association for Library Services to Children (ALSC) Board. Tori Ann graduated from the LIS program in 2015 and is currently a Youth Services Librarian at the Kitsap Regional Library in Washington. This isn’t the first time we’ve shared news about Tori Ann either. She […]
The LIS Program is pleased to announce that Jason Ford successfully defended his thesis on how Indigenous research methodologies can better inform information literacy. His abstract follows: Instructional librarianship in public post-secondary institutions requires that librarians be responsive to a diversity of paradigms and student needs, including Indigenous contexts. Although constrained by institutional infrastructures, Indigenous research methodologies […]
Shelley Lau, an LIS alumna, was awarded the 2022 Golden Key Award by the Hawaii Association of School Librarians. The Golden Key Award recognizes school librarians who have provided exemplary service to the profession. She was presented with a framed certificate of recognition at the HASL spring social on April 23. Lau was nominated by […]
Congratulations to LIS alumna Kelly McDermott, who won the Outstanding Paper Award at the Teaching, Colleges & Community 2022 Worldwide Conference. Her paper, Beyond Content Knowledge: Best Approaches to Improve Student Application of Information Literacy Instruction, highlighted instructional approaches to improve students’ application of information literacy skills using quantitative and qualitive data sets. The article will […]
Text from UH News: https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2022/04/05/helen-wong-smith-elected-to-saa/ University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library Archivist Helen Wong Smith has been selected as vice president/president-elect of the Society of American Archivists (SAA), the oldest and largest national organization of professional archivists in North America. She becomes the first person from Hawaiʻi to hold this position. She will begin her one-year term in August and will become SAA’s 78th president […]