Faculty from the LIS Program and our new partners in the School of Communication and Information met in October and November to shape a vision for our new School as part of the College of Social Sciences. The LIS Program joins Communication, Communicology, Journalism and the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace as founding programs […]
Andrew Wertheimer gives keynote at HLA Centennial
LIS Associate Professor Andrew Wertheimer gave a keynote address at the Hawaiʻi Library Association Centennial Conference at the Bishop Museum on the history of our library association. LIS students and full-time and adjunct faculty giving talks included: Carina Chernisky, “Bolstering OER Efforts: Developing a Collection of Support Resources for UH Faculty” Stanislava Gardasevic, “Library Metadata […]
LIS Issues Statement on Intellectual Freedom
“We believe rather that what people read is deeply important; that ideas can be dangerous; but that the suppression of ideas is fatal to a democratic society. Freedom itself is a dangerous way of life, but it is ours.” — The Freedom to Read Statement, a joint statement by the American Library Association and the […]
Helen Wong Smith Awarded the President’s Award of Excellence by CoSA
LIS Alumnus and UH Mānoa librarian and archivist Helen Wong Smith has been awarded the President’s Award of Excellence, a national honor, by the Council of State Archivists (CoSA) for being a leader in cultural competency in archives. Helen is currently serving as a cultural competency consultant as part of CoSA’s Institution of Museum and […]
Alumnus Jason Ford to Run the Kikuchi Archives
Recent graduate Jason Ford (2021) was just hired as the founding Kikuchi Archivist at Kaua’i Community College’s (KCC) Kikuchi Center. The Kikuchi collection is a multimedia collection of items either created or collected by Dr. William “Pila” Kikuchi, who taught archaeology and anthropology at KCC. The collection contains Native Hawaiian archaeology items from Dr. Kikuchi’s […]
Lori Misaka Presented with the Blair Award
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 […]