“Holding Fast The Dream” on DVD

Miles M. Jackson wrote to alert us that “Holding Fast the Dream” is now available for purchase on DVD: “Holding Fast The Dream: Hawaii’s African American Experience” chronicles their compelling stories: a young Black researcher whose scientific breakthrough in treating Hansen’s Disease was stolen, and who then died in obscurity…the tragedy of racism in a […]

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UH Grads @ACRL

Our very own Margot Hanson (LIS, 2007) went to this year’s ACRL conference to present her poster “Competence vs. Confidence: Assessment Knockdown!” For links to the conference materials, see below: Handout: http://tinyurl.com/assessmentknockdown Poster: http://www.slideshare.net/muumuulibrarian/competence-vs-confidence-assessment-knockdown Congrats, Margot! If anyone else went to ACRL to present or show their posters, let us know with the “Contact Us” […]

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E-Books

Have you had a chance to review writer and educator Jonathan Kranz’s (free!) eBook on how to write an eBook? While the content may be a bit skewed to a corporate audience, there’s some good information, tips and advice that could be useful to librarians… especially those looking to self-publish or create eBook material for […]

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Spring 2011 Newsletter

The Spring 2011 edition of the LIS Alumni Newsletter, ‘Elele Waha ‘Ole, is now available online at the LIS Alumni website. Direct Link to PDF→ Please note that due to the high cost of printing & shipping, the Alumni newsletter will only be distributed electronically and no longer automatically mailed to members via USPS. However, […]

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A publication by Yoko Kudo, grad 2005

Kudo, Yoko. “A study of Romanization practice for Japanese language titles in OCLC WorldCat records.” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, Volume 48, Issue 4 May 2010 , pages 279 – 302. A notice submitted by Hisami Konishi Springer, Ph.D. Library Services University of Hawaii

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