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”.
Please join us in the LIS Program Area in the Hamilton Library basement, room 003F, or on Zoom: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/89430135980
Meeting ID: 894 3013 5980
Passcode: 315035
Presentation Description:
I ulu nō ka lālā i ke kumu: Branches grow because of the trunk. An ʻōlelo noʻeau speaking about the importance of ancestors and kumu (sources). Learn how a project,that started as a small seed in an LIS class, grew into a tree of sources that help our lāhui and Hawaiʻi communities to find their roots.
Presenter Bios:
Kylie Flood is the Hawaiian Pacific & Adult Collections Librarian at Nānākuli Public Library. Collection development, programming, displays, and community engagement are a large part of her kūleana at Nānākuli Public Library. She received her Masters in Library Information Science at the University of Hawaʻi at Mānoa in 2016. Kylie attributes her success, resiliency, and industriousness to all her kūpuna who came before her and to the village of ʻohana and hoaloha who continue to guide her.
Kawena Komeiji is from Nuʻuanu, Kona, Oʻahu with ancestral roots in Waialua and Koʻolauloa moku. Kawena currently lives and works in Honouliuli, ʻEwa, Oʻahu as the Hawaiʻi-Pacific Resources Librarian in the James and Abigail Kuaihelani Campbell Library at the University of Hawaiʻi – West Oʻahu. As an aloha ʻāina ʻoiaʻiʻo and a fierce proponent for ea, she enjoys working with the lāhui Hawaiʻi and giving back to the ʻāina that has sustained her ʻohana for generations.
Michiko Joseph is from Mākaha, Oʻahu. She is currently serving as the Interim Library Director at the University of Hawai‘i West Oʻahu where she is primarily responsible for the planning efforts, budgeting, personnel, and assessment at the UHWO library. Michiko earned her bachelor’s degrees in Psychology from the University of Hawaiʻi West Oʻahu and a Master of Library and Information Science degree from UH Mānoa.