Publishers Weekly interviewed four librarians about how they create safe and welcoming spaces for their students and UHM’s very own Lori Misaka was one of them! Lori discussed her culturally diverse students and the amazing programs she has instituted to make each student feel welcome and included, as well as how her library has become […]
Faculty from the LIS Program and our new partners in the School of Communication and Information met in October and November to shape a vision for our new School as part of the College of Social Sciences. The LIS Program joins Communication, Communicology, Journalism and the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace as founding programs […]
LIS Associate Professor Andrew Wertheimer gave a keynote address at the Hawaiʻi Library Association Centennial Conference at the Bishop Museum on the history of our library association. LIS students and full-time and adjunct faculty giving talks included: Carina Chernisky, “Bolstering OER Efforts: Developing a Collection of Support Resources for UH Faculty” Stanislava Gardasevic, “Library Metadata […]
“We believe rather that what people read is deeply important; that ideas can be dangerous; but that the suppression of ideas is fatal to a democratic society. Freedom itself is a dangerous way of life, but it is ours.” — The Freedom to Read Statement, a joint statement by the American Library Association and the […]
LIS Alumnus and UH Mānoa librarian and archivist Helen Wong Smith has been awarded the President’s Award of Excellence, a national honor, by the Council of State Archivists (CoSA) for being a leader in cultural competency in archives. Helen is currently serving as a cultural competency consultant as part of CoSA’s Institution of Museum and […]
Recent graduate Jason Ford (2021) was just hired as the founding Kikuchi Archivist at Kaua’i Community College’s (KCC) Kikuchi Center. The Kikuchi collection is a multimedia collection of items either created or collected by Dr. William “Pila” Kikuchi, who taught archaeology and anthropology at KCC. The collection contains Native Hawaiian archaeology items from Dr. Kikuchi’s […]