The LIS Program is pleased to announce that Lori Misaka is the Fall 2022 recipient 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 awardees based on high academic standing and strong […]
This year is the 100 year anniversary of the Hawaiʻi Library Association and one of our current LIS students, Jessika Ross, designed the centennial logo, which will be used during this year’s HLA conference. Here’s what Jessika had to say about her design: I knew I wanted to incorporate the existing HLA design featuring the […]
Today, July 1, 2022, marks the creation of the new School of Communication and Information within the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The LIS Program joins Communications, Communicology, Journalism and the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace as founding programs in a new School whose working mission is How […]
The LIS Program is pleased to congratulate Georgina Tom on her recognition as the 2022 Spotlight Award recipient. Georgina is Archivist at the ‘Iolani School Archives and an instructor for the Society of American Archivists (SAA). She currently serves on the SAA Digital Archives Specialist Subcommittee (Committee on Education) which is charged with creating and […]
LIS alumni and current academic librarians Halie Kerns (SUNY Canton) and Stephanie Robertson (BYU-Hawaii) have published “Academic libraries versus the doom scroll: Engaging with at-home users on social media during COVID-19” in the Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship. Their paper is based on an analysis of academic library social media account engagements, and suggests successful […]
Associate Professor and Associate LIS Chair Dr. Vanessa Irvin will be joining the faculty of East Carolina University in Fall 2022. Since she arrived at LIS in 2015, we’ve all benefited from Dr. V’s dedication to the highest standards of LIS research, education and practice, and her efforts in building communities of reflective LIS professionals […]