University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Library and Information Science Program

Month: April 2020

  • New Hui Dui website!

    New Hui Dui website!

    While we’ve all got some free time on our hands, why not check out the newly revamped Hui Dui website?

    Hui Dui Officers and members Mandi Hull, Katherine Lang, Nargis Sultana, and Leticia Sisior decided to undertake this reconstruction as part of LIS 650 Management of Libraries & Information Science under Dr. Andrew Wertheimer. The result is new student event calendars, links to LIS Slack channels for easier peer-to-peer communication, professional and student resources (like the ICS computer lab form students need to fill out every semester!), scholarship and HLA information, and more!

    Hui Dui is the LIS official student organization. All registered LIS students automatically become members of the organization. “Hui” is the Hawaiian word for organization. “Dui” is the phonetic spelling of Melvil Dewey’s name (among other things, Dewey was an advocate of spelling reform). Hui Dui sponsors lectures series, social events, and the all-important Grad Dinner.

  • Update: Working Together at a Distance

    Update: Working Together at a Distance

    The LIS Faculty & Staff wish to acknowledge your patience and understanding as we have all dealt with changes taking place to both our Program and University during the COVID-19 crisis. We offer the following statement to you all in hopes that we can continue working together to weather the changes while continuing to provide you the education and support necessary to become library and information science professionals.

    Oʻahu is known as The Gathering Place, and for over 55 years, community and connection have been at the center of the LIS Program.  While our program was not designed to be fully online, when the best thing for everyone is for us to work together at a distance, here’s what you can expect:

    • We will give you the resources and support to develop professional LIS skills and perspectives that can be learned and practiced in both online and in-person information environments.
    • We will create opportunities in coursework for you to use your skills to help people and communities.  Even in an online environment, reference, research, cataloging, digital content management, creating quality informational content and helping people learn to access resources are all very much needed.  We encourage you to actively identify people, organizations and communities you’d like to help, and work with your instructors to find ways to direct your coursework accordingly.
    • We will create opportunities in coursework for you to interact with other students formally and informally, and build relationships that are an important part of the LIS experience.
    • We will ask you to document how you have developed and applied your skills as professionals do: in formal papers, presentations and reports, but also in informal posts, community engagement projects, and other artifacts and reflections.
    • We will communicate regularly and provide individual attention and timely feedback.
    • When we return to a face-to-face or hybrid learning environment, we will reconfigure our classrooms and common areas to maximize personal space, and to maximize engagement with those working at a distance.
    • We understand that we all have lives and commitments beyond the LIS Program.  We prioritize mutual flexibility and understanding when situations arise that impact course content, assignments and modes of delivery.  Whatever happens, we communicate, and work together to find a way.
    • We encourage students, staff and faculty to put work on pause when needed to prioritize our families, our communities and ourselves, as long as we communicate those boundaries to other people, so we can all work together effectively.

    Please contact your faculty advisor or the Program Coordinator (lisstaff@hawaii.edu) for questions, concerns, and/or special requests during this crisis. We will get through this together.

    Update for Fall 2020: If you do not have a laptop or reliable wi-fi at home, please contact Cheri (lisstaff@hawaii.edu) for more information about procuring one or both through ICS funds.

  • LIS Student Ellen-Rae Cachola Receives Prestigious Fellowship

    LIS Student Ellen-Rae Cachola Receives Prestigious Fellowship

    Congratulations to LIS student, Ellen-Rae Cachola! She has been selected as one of 15 Fellows for the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion, and Cultural Heritage, which seeks to enhance understandings of multicultural collections among professionals, local community members, and the broader public.

    In addition to being an LIS student, Ellen also works as an Evening Supervisor & Archives Manager at the UHM Law Library and lecturer for the Department of Ethnic Studies. She is the granddaughter of Ilocano plantation workers and is the mentee of Hawaiian demilitarization organizers. Through her work in libraries, archives, and instruction, she uses information to shed light on how systems of oppression, such as imperialism and settler colonialism, affect different communities, and stages opportunities for decolonial dialogue and intersectional organizing.

    These Fellows were chosen from a highly competitive field of more than sixty applicants by a committee comprised of leading cultural heritage professionals. The selected fellows will work closely with a spectrum of multicultural collections.

    More information about the Fellowship is available at: https://ebookschool.org/admissions-awards/fellowships/mellon-diversity

    Read more: https://rarebookschool.org/admissions-awards/fellowships/mellon-diversity/rbs-mellon-cultural-heritage-fellows-for-2020-2022/

  • Congratulations to the HLA 2020 Scholarship Winners!

    Congratulations to the HLA 2020 Scholarship Winners!

    Congratulations to LIS student Minyoung Chung and LIS alumna Gailyn Bopp, winners of this year’s Hawaii Library Association Student and Professional Scholarships! This announcement would normally be made at the HLA Spring Meeting, but due to COVID-19 concerns, this year HLA has opted to share a short bio and information about the award for each recipient online:

    Student Scholarship: Minyoung Chung – awarded $1,000.00 and a one year membership to HLA for free.

    During my undergraduate studies, I majored in both psychology and library information science at the Ewha Woman’s University in South Korea. Through the Korea Foundation, I completed a fellowship at the Center for Korean Studies at UH Mānoa in 2018. Currently, I am in my second semester in the LIS program at UH Mānoa with a focus in academic/archival tracks and now I am doing an internship with the Government documents collection. As a member of HLA, I recently presented about the North Korean Collection at UH Mānoa at the recent HLA conference in Kauai. I am now working on a North Korean special collections project to increase accessibility by putting them into an institutional repository. I believe the way in which records are preserved, searched for, used, shared and published shapes our memory of the dynamics of culture and history. I am passionate about ensuring the accessibility to materials, service, and community to help create a diverse environment of information with responsibility and ethics of care.

    Professional Scholarship: Gailyn Bopp – awarded $499 to attend the Exhibits Fundamentals online course through the Northern States Conservation Center, from October 5 to November 13, 2020.

    Gailyn Bopp works as Associate Archivist for the BYU-Hawai`i JFS Library Archives & Special Collections, and as Assistant Professor of Theatre in the BYUH Faculty of Language, Culture, and the Performing Arts.  She is a proud alumna of the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa LIS program, graduating with a certificate in Archival Studies.  Gailyn enjoys theatrical performance, exhibit curation, and traditional Hawaiian craft.  She currently serves as President-elect of the Association of Hawai`i Archivists.

    Congratulations to both Minyoung and Gailyn. We’re so proud of both of you!

  • Coping with COVID-19 (LIS Update)

    Prospective Students

    The deadline for Fall 2020 admissions applications has been extended to Aug. 1, 2020. Please review Graduate Division’s updated policy regarding submission formats due to stay-at-home orders.

    Please be aware of possible delays in the review of your application due to faculty working from different locations due to stay-at-home orders. If you are interested in summer classes, please contact Cheri Ebisu via email: lisstaff@hawaii.edu

    Continuing Students:
    Thank you to our students for your ongoing patience and perseverance during these chaotic times. Your Program Coordinator personally apologizes for not updating this website sooner with pandemic resources.

    Changes to the LIS Program:

    • Classes will be online through the end of Spring 2020 and Summer Session I semesters.
    • LIS Program space is not available to students during this time, including the Diner.
    • Cancelled classes for Fall 2020: LIS 619 Preservation Management, LIS 631 Introduction to Hawai’i/Pacific Librarianship, and LIS 690 Internship. Exceptions will be made for LIS 690 Internship for graduating students only.
    • Advising and registration will take place online this semester.
    • All student organization events have been cancelled for the foreseeable future.

    Resources:

    Graduating Students

    Oral exams and ePortfolio assignments will still be conducted and due, respectively, via Zoom and other online platforms this semester. Please contact your advisor or 692 instructor for questions or concerns about either. There will be no LIS Grad Dinner this semester. 🙁

     

    Be safe out there. We will keep you updated as much as possible to any changes in our Program.