LIS Associate Professor Andrew Wertheimer joined State Librarian Stacey Aldrich and HASL President Caitlin Ramirez in a Hawaiʿi Library Association Next Steps webinar “Facts in the Stacks: Considering Book Challenges in Hawaiʿi” on March 25, 2023, to discuss the national trend of book challenges and how local librarians are responding. For those interested in learning […]
We welcomed back Rutgers University School of Communication and Information Professor Nancy Kranich to the LIS Program on March 7, 2023, when she spoke in Andrew Wertheimer’s Academic Librarianship class. Kranich served as ALA President in the year 2000, which was an important one for academic and intellectual freedom. She’s a respected national voice on […]
The LIS Program kicked off its revitalized LIS Research Forum with Dr. Andrew Wertheimer’s presentation “Yiddish Bookstores & Cultural Survival in North America.” Jewish bookstores served as third spaces for the community, and mirrored the theological and philosophical divides of the Jewish Community. The presentation searches for shards of the bookstores’ existence in various American […]
We are grateful to Shirley Loo for establishing a new scholarship for students enrolled in the Library and Information Science Program at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa! Initially funded with $52K, the purpose of this Fund is to provide scholarship support for costs associated with attendance (e.g. tuition, books, fees, etc.) to students who […]
LIS Graduate Teaching Assistant Stanislava (Stasha) Gardasevic was elected to the board of the Association of Hawai’i Archivists at their annual conference. Gardasevic has taught several courses for the LIS Program on digital libraries and database design among others. Stasha is a doctoral candidate in the Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Communication and Information Sciences, and […]
We are seeking a full-time, tenure-track faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor to join our American Library Association (ALA)-accredited program. People who locate some or all of their work in Hawaiian information practices, collections and/or institutions are especially encouraged to apply. UH LIS graduates constitute roughly two thirds of the librarians, archivists and […]