Jessica Gleason, a 2008 graduate of the LIS program, has been named one of the ten recipients of the 2025 I Love My Librarian Award, presented by the American Library Association. Based on Maui, Gleason serves as a bookmobile librarian and remained a vital resource for the Lāhainā community following the devastating fires of 2023. […]

LIS Student Brooke Jones has recently been chosen as a Spring 2025 graduating recipient for the Robert & Rita Blair Memorial Award! This award was originally established in the name of the late Colonel Robert M. Blair, a 1974 LIS graduate, to reflect his appreciation for the importance of libraries to the communities they serve. […]

Aloha kākou! We are very happy to welcome Alexandria (Alli) Rayburn to the LIS faculty as Assistant Professor in Fall 2025! Alli is completing her PhD at the University of Michigan School of Information, where she also received her master’s degree in Information Science. Her dissertation title is Women in Museum Computing: Implementing Transformative Data […]

Our congratulations and kudos to LIS alumni and students who made the news in the 2024 and 2025 editions of Hawaii Library Associationʻs Kolekole. Please visit the linked issues of the newsletter to read the full articles. Carina Chernisky Receives UH Regents’ Medal (Spring 2025 issue) Carina Chernisky, public services librarian at James and Abigail […]

The LIS Program is hosting our next LIS Research Forum on Tuesday, February 25, 4:00-4:50pm. We welcome Kylie Flood from Nānākuli Public Library, Kawena Komeiji from UH West Oʻahu, and Michiko Joseph from UH West Oʻahu, as they present “I Ulu Nō Ka Lālā I Ke Kumu: Supporting the Genealogy Research of Our Local Communities”. […]