Dr. Wertheimer gave a paper at the Association for Asian American Studies 2023 conference in Long Beach, California. His paper, “The Issei Role in Fostering a Prewar Nisei Leadership: The Fushimi Memorial Scholarship Society in Nikkei Hawaiʻi” explores the prewar Japanese American association that established the Fushimi Memorial Scholarship Society for Nisei to study at UHM, created pioneering Japanese language textbooks. The society also operated a Japanese library at the Library of Hawai’i, which later became the Hawai’i State Library. Wertheimer expressed excitement about attending his first scholarly conference in person since COVID-19, and is looking forward to engaging with other Asian American Studies scholars from across the country.
Month: April 2023
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State Archivist and LIS Adjunct Instructor Adam Jansen Repatriating Hawaiʻi Items
State Archivist and LIS Adjunct Instructor Adam Jansen flew to New York in March to bring back Queen Liliʻuokalani’s Royal Standard, as well as letters and documents related to the overthrow. The items were to be auctioned off but were instead acquired by the State Archives, thanks to $60,000 in donations that enabled the State to purchase the items. The Royal Standard was the queen’s personal flag that was flown over her home in Honolulu on the day she was overthrown. Jansen was quoted as saying, “I will be treating the queen’s personal flag as representing the queen herself. It has mana. The flag is an important piece of the story of Hawaiʻi coming back to the people after more than a century.”
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Stanislava Gardasevic Presents Research Forum on Community Design of a Knowledge Graph
The LIS Research Forum continues with a presentation by Stanislava Gardasevic, a Communication & Information Sciences PhD candidate and a LIS Teaching Assistant and Course Instructor titled “Community Design of a Knowledge Graph to Support Interdisciplinary PhD Students”. How do PhD students discover the resources and relationships conducive to satisfaction and success in their degree programs? This study proposes a community-grounded, extensible knowledge graph to make explicit and tacit information intuitively discoverable, by capturing and visualizing relationships between people based on their activities and relations to information resources in a particular domain (i.e. Communication and Information Sciences Interdisciplinary PhD Program). The presentation will include an overview of methods used to collect data and create/populate the knowledge graph, a demonstration of the graph query visualizations, and some of the preliminary findings that show the usefulness of such technology for PhD students. The presentation will be held on Thursday, April 20th, from 4:00-4:45 pm in the LIS Program Area, Hamilton Basement, Room 003F, and also on Zoom. The Zoom link and more information about the event can be found on the event flyer.
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North Kohala Public Library, Hawaiʻi State Public Library System
Internship Description
The intern will gain experience in programming for both adults and children, in materials selection, and in weeding the children’s and adult fiction collection.
Library/Collection Description
North Kohala Library has a small general public library collection of 20,000 items. 3,000 DVDs account for 25% of the circulation. The balance of the collection consists of popular materials for adults, children, and teens. The library has an archive room with a limited collection of materials related to the history of North Kohala.
Required Qualifications
Successful completion of the following courses:
- LIS 601 Introduction to Reference & Information Services
Desired Qualifications
- Enthusiasm, friendliness, steadfastness, precision, and a willingness to learn.
Weekly Schedule
The branch can accommodate the intern’s other work and family schedules.
Goals and Outcomes
- The intern will have the opportunity to experience the process of planning, organizing, scheduling, publicizing, and presenting library programs.
- The intern will have the opportunity to select materials within a branch budget from a statewide order list.
- The intern will work with the youth services librarian and the library assistant in weeding the juvenile collection and the adult fiction collection.
- The intern will also assist with book processing, shelving, displays, circulation and other day to day tasks.
Evaluation Methods
Based on the program requirements, the branch manager will provide guidance and assessment on a regular basis.
Evaluation Schedule
Unless otherwise directed, the branch manager will evaluate the intern on a monthly basis as is done with training a new employee.
Contact Information
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