University of Hawaii LIS Program

UHM SAA Student Chapter volunteering at InterPARES Trust Symposium on AI on Archives organized by LIS Adjunct Faculty / State Archivist Dr. Adam Jansen.

Thanks everyone who met with the ALA Committee on Accreditation External Review Panel when they visited last week. We had some great discussions with the ERP and look forward to their Report. In case you haven't, we encourage you to check out our Self Study Report. It's a snapshot as of this summer in terms of what we've done in the past few years and where we hope to go.

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Join us for LIS graduates ePortfolio presentations on April 26 from 4PM - 6:30PM!

Due to generous donations, the State Archives was able to bring back the Royal Standard and documents related to the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

SAA student chapter presents their new website!
Check it out at: https://hisaasc.weebly.com/

Help them out by filling out this survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/e/1FAIpQLSdrE7TIHk4iU9t5DonIkaVmuIqEUlpRVEhjHJ5zHl0PS1zndQ/viewform?usp=send_form

Please join Dr. Melissa Tedone and Dr. Rosie Grayburn for an afternoon talk about Arsenic and Other Heavy Metals in 19th-Century Euro-American Bookbinding! Register here: https://www.sowf.org/events.html #!event/register/2023/4/27/online-lecture-the-poison-book-project-arsenic-and-other-heavy-metals-in-19th-c-euro-american-book-binding

Attention! HLA is still accepting scholarship applications! Deadline is May 5, 2023! Apply Now!

For more information check out: https://www.hawaiilibraryassociation.org/scholarships--awards.html

INTERSHIP OPPORTUNITY!! Roselani Remote Internship deadline has been extended to April 30, 2023! Don't miss an awesome opportunity and apply now before it's too late!

Both the AMIA and Internship application need to be completed!

For additional information and the application:https://giugni.files.wordpress.com/2023/03/2023_roselani_application.pdf

AMIA Pathway application: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TTZT5PX

Join us at our LIS Research Forum on Community Design of a Knowledge Graph to Support Interdisciplinary PHD students with Stanislava Gardasevic!

Date and Time: April 20 (Thursday) @ 4PM!

Scholarship opportunity! Apply Now! Deadline is May 5, 2023
For more information: https://www.ftrf.org/page/Conable_Scholarship

Don't miss a great opportunity!

Attention job seekers!

The Library and Information Science Program at the University of Hawaii is looking to fill in an Assistant Professor position in Hawaiian Librarianship.

Check out the link below for more details:
https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawaiiedu/jobs/3921475/assistant-professor-school-of-comm-and-infopos-0084813

A big Mahalo to Shirley Loo!

She has made a generous endowment which has established a new scholarship for students enrolled in the LIS Program!

Congratulations to Professor Rich Gazan!

He will continue serving as the LIS program chair with a new title, LIS Program Director for the School of Communications and Information in the College of Social Sciences.

Registration for Fall 2023 classes starts on April 10th! If you havenʻt been advised yet, please contact your advisor for an appointment. Hint: if you'd like a Lower Campus parking pass for the fall semester, please be sure to register during the first week of registration and then immediately purchase your pass. They sell out fast!

REMINDER!! Tuesday, April 11 from 5PM - 6PM join us on Zoom to meet with our guest speaker, Helen Wong!

Helen Wong will be discussing how cultural competency can shape our profession.

Zoom Link: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/97870136005

Meeting ID: 978 7013 6005
Passcode: 611887

We're at the UH West Oʻahu Grad Fair today, outside of the Nāulu Center, until 4pm. I have program information and course schedules. Come visit!

Summer is already around the corner! Here is the current summer 2023 schedule for LIS courses!

You can also check out our website for other course schedules and any additional information related to the program here: https://www.hawaii.edu/lis/

We're at Mānoa Experience today on the campus mall. Come visit!

LIS students. Apply now

Let us help you reach your goals by applying for an HLA scholarship!

--The professional scholarship of up to $1,000 for continuing education is open to all library staff.
--The student scholarship of $1,000 and a free one-year membership to HLA is open to all UH Mānoa LIS and CALIS students.

Learn more: https://www.hawaiilibraryassociation.org/scholarships--awards.html

Librarians need a break too.

A friendly reminder that Hamilton Library is closed today and tomorrow. This Monday through Friday the hours are adjusted for Spring Recess: 8:00am - 5:00pm. Hope you can get some relaxation in during this break. 🌺

Amazing experience with amazing professionals.

Attention current LIS students at UH Mānoa! Check out this ~paid~ internship opportunity here at UH West Oʻahu and at the Hawaiian Legacy Foundation Archive (Waikīkī).

More information and to apply by January 16, 2023: https://go.hawaii.edu/kVh or check out the link bio!

Faculty let me write my own goodbye post and that was their mistake! Thanks for letting me your Program Coordinator these past four years!
http://www.hawaii.edu/lis/2022/05/27/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish-by-cheri-ebisu/

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (by Cheri Ebisu) – UHM Library and Information Science Program So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (by Cheri Ebisu) Posted on May 27, 2022May 27, 2022 Numerous faculty asked if I wanted them write a post for my departure as Program Coordinator and I felt bad about asking them to do more work, but what they also didn’t know is that they have already given me ...

Students in Dr. Wertheimer’s LIS 650 Management of Libraries and Information Centers class this spring completed service projects in the local community to practice their managerial skills. Jennifer Duncklee, Michelle Hatami, Lori Misaka, and Jesse Shiroma worked with Kalani High School librarian Daphne Miyashiro to raise funds for the Hawai‘i Association of School Librarians (HASL).

This year’s fundraising total is $5056.46 from in-store and online sales, which will go toward supporting HASL’s efforts for school libraries. A big mahalo to the volunteers, Barnes & Noble, and Daphne for helping to make Jenn, Michelle, Lori, and Jesse’s project a success!

Read more here: http://www.hawaii.edu/lis/2022/05/12/lis-students-help-raise-over-5k-to-support-school-librarianship/

Congratulations to Jason Ford, who recently and successfully defended his thesis, entitled "Indigenous Voices Informing Academic Information Literacy: Critical Discourses, Relationality, and Indigeneity for the Good of the Whole."

Abstract: 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 and epistemologies provide frameworks for Indigenous students and librarians to practice and support inquiry in ways that are responsive to their culturally- specific needs. Currently, research in library and information science about how Indigenous research methodologies and epistemologies can support academic librarianship is limited, especially concerning how Indigenous voices can inform information literacy as a whole. Using semi-structured interviews, 4 Indigenous LIS and academic professionals and an Apache-Comanche elder were interviewed to better understand how Indigenous voices can inform information literacy in the public academy. Responses were coded using thematic analysis, and results demonstrate that Indigenous voices can inform information literacy in consideration of relevancy, value neutrality, positionality, through being critical of hegemonic infrastructures including technology, prioritizing native voices, and centering relationality. This has implications in strategic planning, curriculum development, and informing social paradigms that support Indigenous people in post-secondary education while addressing modern issues for the good of the whole.