"Learning Information Literacy Online" [LILO] was adapted from North Carolina State University's "Library Online Basic Orientation" available at: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/lobo2/. NCSU and UH signed an End-User License Agreement (EULA) in spring 2004, and LILO was born.
Ellen Okuma from Hawai'i Community College was a founding member of the University of Hawai'i Libraries Information Literacy Committee and came up with the LILO name and acronym. The UH Librarians who currently participate in LILO development include: Thora Abarca (UH-Hilo), Margot Hanson (UH-West O'ahu), Xin Li (Honolulu Community College), Anne McKenna (Kaua'i Community College), Diane Nahl (School of Library and Information Science), Ellen Peterson (Maui Community College) Kevin Roddy (Kapi'olani Community College), Tara Severns (Windward Community College), and Jue Wang (Leeward Community College).
Kevin Roddy serves as the LILO content editor, SQL database administrator and principal PHP programmer. Stephanie Nelson, Kapi'olani Community College's Electronic Resources Coordinator, has greatly contributed to this site's design, navigation and functionality.
Professor Diane Nahl of UH-Manoa SLIS continues to serve the Committee as the academic liaison to Information Literacy. Under her guidance, LIS graduate students have begun to develop rubrics for LILO based on ACRL Standards.
Special thanks to Miriam Jacobson of UH-Hilo Mookini Library for proofreading each page on this site and standardizing the content formatting.
The Hawaiian Significance of LILO
The Hawaiian Dictionary (Hawaiian — English English Hawaiian) by Pukui and Elbert (and available online at http://www.wehewehe.org defines lilo as:
lilo1. vs., vt. To accrue, be lost, gone, pass into the possession of; to relinquish; to become, turn into; to overcome; purchased, taken. (Gram. 4.5.) Lilo i ke aupuni, accrue to the government. Ke kālā e lilo ai, expenses. Lilo aku ka waʻa i ke kai, the canoe was taken by the sea. Kumu lilo, cost, price. ʻAʻohe wahi lilo o ke aliʻi iāʻoe, you are the perfect image of the chief; lit., there is nothing in the chief that does not accrue to you. Inā e mimi, ʻaʻohe koe ʻāina i ka lilo i ka wai (For. 5:139), if [he] urinates, there is no land that does not turn into water [that is not flooded completely]. hoʻo.lilo, To transfer, assign, as in legal transactions; to export; change, reduction, as in fractions. Waiwai hoʻolilo, exports. Hoʻolilo ʻana, loss, cession. Ua hoʻolilo ʻia i ʻAmelika, become Americanized. Ua hoʻolilo ʻoia iāia iho i kanaka pono, he changed himself into a righteous man. (PPN lilo.)2. vs. Busy, absorbed, occupied, engaged, engrossed, devoted, dedicated. Ua lilo loa au i ka heluhelu, I'm completely absorbed in reading. Lilo ʻo Ka-welo i laila, hiki ua mau kānaka nei i Wai-kīkī (FS 51), while Ka-welo was busy there, these aforementioned people came to Wai-kīkī. No ka lilo loa o Lohiʻau ipo i ka nani o Puna, ua lilo ka ʻai … i mea ʻole iāia, because of sweetheart Lohiʻau's fascination by the beauty of Puna, food became … as nothing [of no interest] to him.
3. n. Expense, expenditure, outlay of money. Nā uku makahiki a me nā lilo ʻē aʻe, annual salaries and other expenses. hoʻo.lilo, Expense, expenditure; to spend; to lose; to buy or sell. Nui ka hoʻolilo, great expense; very expensive. Ka mea hoʻolilo liʻiliʻi, retail buyer. Nui ka hoʻolilo o ke aupuni no kēlā alanui hou, the government spent much on that new road.
4. vs. Far, distant, out of sight, completely, entirely (often follows a noun). I luna lilo, way up. I waho lilo, far outside, way out. I ka moana lilo, far out to sea. Ua lawe a lilo ʻia ka ipo a ke kelamoku, the sailor's sweetheart was swept completely off her feet.
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