University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Library and Information Science Program

Month: November 2021

  • Fall 2021 Blair Award Recipients: Sarah Arzate and Lauren Nielsen

    Fall 2021 Blair Award Recipients: Sarah Arzate and Lauren Nielsen

    Sarah Arzate and Lauren Nielsen are the fall 2021 recipients of the Robert and Rita Blair Memorial Award. This coveted award is presented to graduating students who show special promise in providing library services to children and youth. The LIS faculty select the awardees based on high academic standing and strong evidence of professional leadership.

    While a student in the LIS program, Sarah Arzate has been focused on children’s services via co-founding The Makana Aniani Hawai`i Children’s Book Award program, and fostering a collaborative community of practice with colleagues via working with the UHM LIS student group, Hui Dui. Sarah’s interests have involved school media and public library services. We look forward to more amazing contributions to the LIS profession from Sarah, throughout her career.

    Nielsen served as president of Hui Dui, holding virtual events and a virtual student graduation ceremony during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a practicum student in the Sacred Hearts Academy Elementary Library, she and her cooperating librarian, Laurel Oshiro, collaborated to genrefy the collection to make it easier for students and teachers to find books by topic. Lauren and Laurel are co-presenting about these efforts at the upcoming fall 2021 conference of the Hawaiʻi Library Association and the Pacific Islands Association of Libraries, Archives, and Museums.

     

  • Dr. Tonia Sutherland Collaborates with AfterLab, New Research Group

    Dr. Tonia Sutherland Collaborates with AfterLab, New Research Group

    Dr. Tonia Sutherland has joined the team of AfterLab, along with the University of Washington’s iSchool’s Anna Lauren Hoffman, Marika Cifor, and Megan Finn.

    AfterLab, a new research group at the iSchool, is dedicated to thinking about what happens after — the aftermath of disasters, afterlives of personal data, after careful attempts at ethical governance of technologies fail, and even what happens to our digital artifacts after we’re gone. Rather than cranking out prototypes and papers, the lab takes a longer view, looking at information science from critical and social science perspectives to learn how the uses of information urgently affect different people, especially those who have long been marginalized or oppressed.

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    Sutherland’s recent work has focused on what happens to people’s data after death, with an emphasis on what is archived and what is erased about the lives of Black people. She is the author of a forthcoming book on the topic, Digital Remains: Race and the Digital Afterlife (University of California Press, under contract).

    Sutherland also brings an island perspective: “Islands and their infrastructures are particularly prone to the after-effects of continental policies and decision-making. Hawaiʻi is often an afterthought, tacked onto the corner of the U.S. map in ways that tend to minimize the impact of its geolocation in one of the most remote parts of the Pacific. Bringing University of Hawaiʻi students into the conversations we are having in AfterLab foregrounds this ‘aftering’ in interesting and important ways,” Sutherland said.

    Read more about AfterLab at this article, and view AfterLab online!