“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 multicultural paradise…and the significant achievements of Hawai’i's African Americans in science, social justice, and the arts.

“Holding Fast The Dream” premiered at the 2010 Hawai’i International Film Festival. It was a featured selection of the 2011 San Diego Black Film Festival, and received its broadcast premiere in March 2011 on PBS Hawai’i.

The University of Hawaii’s Library and Information Science (LIS) Program is in the process of re-examining its required core courses. We believe that feedback on this matter from information professionals in our community would be invaluable. This is a voluntary activity; however, we hope that members of the LIS Alumni Group will spend a few minutes completing the survey available at http://hawaii.surveyshare.com/s/AQA6HID.

If you have questions about the survey’s content, please contact the chair of the LIS Curriculum Committee, Violet Harada at vharada [at] hawaii [dot] edu. If you have technical problems, please contact Dore Minatodani at dorem [at] hawaii [dot] edu. Thank you!

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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!

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