Jill Sommer’s students in LIS 659: Archival Access, Representation and Use processed papers from the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i’s Archives. The class is shown with JCCH Archives Manager Gail Kuroda and Adjunct faculty Jill Sommer after making their final presentations. Students made recommendations for preservation, privacy protection, and how these collections could be used […]
State Archivist and LIS Adjunct Instructor Adam Jansen flew to New York in March to bring back Queen Liliʻuokalani’s Royal Standard, as well as letters and documents related to the overthrow. The items were to be auctioned off but were instead acquired by the State Archives, thanks to $60,000 in donations that enabled the State […]
The LIS Research Forum continues with a presentation by Stanislava Gardasevic, a Communication & Information Sciences PhD candidate and a LIS Teaching Assistant and Course Instructor titled “Community Design of a Knowledge Graph to Support Interdisciplinary PhD Students”. How do PhD students discover the resources and relationships conducive to satisfaction and success in their degree […]
After serving seven years as LIS Program Chair, the LIS faculty unanimously elected Professor Rich Gazan to continue in the same role with a new title, LIS Program Director, in the new School of Communication and Information in the College of Social Sciences. “My vision for LIS is not to inflict any single vision of […]
LIS Instructor Meera Garud, MLISc gave a talk on “Getting Past the Trigger: Learning How to Navigate Misinformation with Grace” as part of UH West Oʻahu Library’s Misinformation Week on March 20, 2023. This weeklong event raised awareness about this important topic with nine sessions led by faculty, college librarians, public librarians, and school librarians. […]
LIS Associate Professor Andrew Wertheimer joined State Librarian Stacey Aldrich and HASL President Caitlin Ramirez in a Hawaiʿi Library Association Next Steps webinar “Facts in the Stacks: Considering Book Challenges in Hawaiʿi” on March 25, 2023, to discuss the national trend of book challenges and how local librarians are responding. For those interested in learning […]