LIS Celebrates Archives Month

LIS Students and Adjunct Faculty Celebrated Archives month in 2024 with a number of activities. The SAA Student Chapter enjoyed a talk by Gina S. Vergara-Bautista and tour of the State Records Center, which is the State Archives’ center for active records.  LIS Student Ani Kawada gave a talk at an online “AHA archives chat” […]

HLA Offers Poster Session Workshop to LIS Students

The Hawai’i Library Association is hosting a Poster Session Workshop, taught by BYUH Librarian and LIS alumnus Stephanie Robertson, for LIS students on Tuesday, September 24th from 4:00-5:00 on Zoom. Students will learn how to create a poster for presentation at a conference. LIS students interested in learning more about poster creation and presentations can […]

LIS Alumna Susan Kazama Leads Hawaiʻi Community College

Susan Murata Kazama, a 1986 graduate of the LIS Program, has been appointed as the interim chancellor at Hawai‘i Community College. She brings with her an amazing wealth of experiences that spans more than 35 years in higher education at five UH campuses. Among her achievements, Kazama served as interim vice chancellor of academic affairs […]

Dr. S. Kauwela Valeho-Novikoff Graduates from the CIS Doctoral Program

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 […]

LIS Alum Shavonn Matsuda Named a 2023 Library Journal Mover & Shaker

Current University of Hawaiʻi Maui College head librarian and LIS alumnus Shavonn Matsuda was recently featured in Library Journal as a 2023 Mover & Shaker for her work with Hawaiian knowledge organization. Shavonn is the project director for Ka Wai Hāpai, which is an IMLS-supported project to create a Hawaiian knowledge organization system and controlled […]