Hawaii Library Association

Thank you to our donors

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The Hawaii Library Association would like to thank our 2011 conference Silent Auction donors.

Holiday wishes from PIALA

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Vice President Aaron Sigrah, Secretary Karleen M. Samuel, Treasurer Lydia Tibon and members of the PIALA Executive Board join me in extending wishes for a very Merry Christmas to all the HLA members, families and friends from all over the globe. As a partner association in education and training for the development of libraries and librarians in the Pacific, PIALA want to thank HLA for the past years to be part of this very important mission. We send our warmest wishes for a happy holiday and renew commitment in the New Year 2012. Our sincerest wishes are to battle together to find ways and opportunities to work together to be updated with the advance education and training of our membership. My fellow PIALA Officers and Executive Board Members join me, therefore, to wish HLA members a Christmas abundant with blessings of health, peace and happiness. And may the blessing of Christmas also enrich your lives and your loved ones' the New Year through.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Atarino A Helieisar, PIALA President

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PIALA President Atarino Heilieisar and HLA President Stewart Chun exchange gifts at the HLA Business Meeting. photo by Andrew Wertheimer

As the first recipient of the Karen M. Peacock Memorial PIALA Scholarship Award, PIALA President Atarino Heilieisar attended the Hawaii Library Association annual conference in Honolulu, Hawaii on Dec. 5. He attended the business meeting and presented gifts from PIALA to HLA President Stewart Chun and expressed his appreciation for receiving the scholarship. During the conference he also met HLA Vice-president/President-elect Christine Pawliuk and members of the HLA board. Atarino presented a session on "Experiences with HLA: a personal story" and answered several questions about PIALA and Micronesia. On Dec. 6, Atarino attended the cataloging post-conference "Workshop on RDA," presented by Chris Cronin from the University of Chicago. After an informal dinner with Daniel Peacock, Jane Barnwell, and Ruth Horie, Atarino returned to Pohnpei on Dec. 7.

To eRead or Not to eRead: is That The Question?

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Uta Hussong-Christian and Jane Nichols, Oregon State University

Hussong-Christian and Nichols discussed an ongoing study being conducted by Oregon State University of e-reader adoption among OSU librarians and staff.

The speakers opened with an illustration from the Economist (2011) showing an old man in a home library, its shelves empty and full of cobwebs, reaching for an ebook reader (see http://www.economist.com/node/21528611 ). Hussong-Christian and Nichols went on to point out that, while print revenues are down and electronic revenues are up, print is still the dominant medium in publishing. They suggest that the dichotomy question--print or electronic – is not useful since we read in multiple formats for a variety of reasons.

OSU received a year-long grant to study e-reader use when the barriers to owning an e-reader are removed. The researchers gave one of 4 different types of e-readers (Kindle, Kobo, Sony Reader, and Nook) to 30 librarians and press staff for 2 months. They then planned to interview each user before, during, and after those 2 months (the study is ongoing).

The speakers went over some of the concerns/findings of the study so far

Factors to prevent purchase:

Preference of print

No clear need to change

Cost
Needs are already met through apps on other devices
Confusion about what to buy
Confusion about when to buy
Decision to “wait and see” what becomes available

Some of these concerns have been addressed by newly released tablet versions of popular devices.

Hurdles to comfortable eReader use:

· Content

o Finding

§ Cost/ease of use

§ Format compatibility

o Getting

o Managing

§ How to organize, sync, delete

· Competing tech

· Device comfort

o Learning curve

o Charging, tethering

· Misc

o Lack of priority

o Advertisements

o Screen fatigue

· Hard to replicate tasks that are expect from print such as flipping back and forth

The speakers stressed the importance of moving beyond replication to create new practices that are not tied to print.

Hussong-Christan and Nichols went over their study of reading practices and how electronic reading compares to print reading in some depth. They particularly concentrated on the Pugh (1978) study or reading practices. They discussed the ease with which a number of different formats (print, ereader, handheld device, tablet, and full screen computer) could be used for each type of reading

Pugh reading styles

Scanning: reading for structure and ideas

Search: close reading when uncertain of forms and keywords

Skimming: reading for structure and ideas

Receptive: reading for pleasure

Responsive: deep reading for short periods of time.

They concluded that, while each format may be used for each style, depending on factors such as screen size, hyperlinking, etc., some are better adapted than others. They do point out that rapid advances in technology will most likely improve usability.

The talk concluded with the assertion that “a rise in one technology does not mark the end of another.” (they quoted Bauer, 2011) and that, as electronic reading gains a presence in our lives “transliteracy”(interaction across literacies) will become ever more important, ultimately moving us past the title question, “to eRead or not to eRead?”

-- Stacey Judy

XFR: Experiments in the Future of Reading

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Opening Program by Anne Balsamo, University of Southern California

“Anne Balsamo is a professor at the University of Southern California and Director of Learning at the Annenberg Innovation Lab. In 2002 she co-founded Onomy Labs, Inc., a Silicon Valley technology design and fabrication company that builds cultural technologies. Previously she was a member of RED (Research on Experimental Documents), a collaborative research group at Xerox PARC [that] created experimental reading devices and new media genres. She served as Project manager and new media designer for the development of RED’s interactive museum exhibit, XFR: Experiments in the Future of Reading.”—from the HLA11 program.

Dr. Balsamo's lecture looked at the exhibit (XFR: Experiments in the Future of Reading) she helped to design while working at Xerox PARC. The exhibit explored the relationship between reading and new technologies. Designed between 1999 and 2001, it was initially shown at the San Jose Museum of Tech Innovation in 2000, before touring the country.

The centerpiece of the exhibit was an interactive wall which, when manipulated, delved into the history of reading. The participant was allowed to see gradual shifts in reading and writing by moving along the wall, thus demonstrating that new technologies don't obliterate old reading technologies, but build on them. Balsamo stressed wall writing as the reading/writing of the future, saying that they will take on more important roles. She continues to experiment with interactive walls, and included various examples including those in Mexico and Singapore.

Other components of the exhibit included:

Tilting tables, which allowed a reader to use his body to manipulate large documents, and to read in new ways.

Hyperbolic Comics: This was an attempt at creating a new media genre. Hyperbolic Comics have no beginning and no end. In the test comic, readers could learn about a young boy's world by following paths that lead away from him, somewhat like concept map structure.

Reading Eye Dog: used machine reading technology to read a story (scanned text). Originally the dog was shaped like a person, but its designers discovered that people had too-high expectations for a human-like form. When the shape changed to that of a dog, users were more forgiving of its faults.

The XFR exhibit is now dismantled, but Dr. Balsamo’s video documentation of it show that it was and is a fascinating look at reading as it was, is, and could be.

-- Stacey Judy

The Future of the Book

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Bob Stein (from the Institute for the Future of the Book) closed the 2011 HLA Conference by talking about what a book is, and how our concept of the book has changed through time and continues to evolve.

Stein reminded everyone that our idea of the book is mainly limited to that which has dominated this past century-- "a set of written, printed, or blank sheets bound together into a volume" (definition from Merriam-Webster's online dictionary). He pointed out that this idea--along with the habit of individual, silent reading--is unique to modern times and that for the majority of reading history, that books have been much more of a social experience (eg families reading aloud as entertainment, teachers using books with wide margins as starting points for discussion).

Stein noted that with the internet, people seem to be shifting back to a social experience of reading. He is excited about a beta program called Social Book which lets people highlight and annotate texts and share them within a group, or even with other users around the world.

Other points included in his talk:

Mr. Stein referred several times to the thinking of Marshall McLuhan, a visionary in the field of media studies.
Stein urged the audience to pay attention to gaming culture (eg World of Warcraft where players construct their own narrative).
He believes that there are changing notions of privacy, and that people have a strong desire to share things online.
He described his constantly shifting definition of "book," saying that we have to "redefine the boundary of the book." His current description of a book is "any place where thinking is happening."

-- Michelle Young

And that's a wrap

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Bob Stein, founder of the Institute for the Future of the Book, ponders the evolving definition of a book in the closing session.

Lunch time!

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The most important part of the conference

Posterized

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Erenst Anip discusses the Hawaii Digital Newspaper Project during the HLA poster session.

Silent auction open til 2:30

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Deals still available!

Making connections

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Atarino Helieisar, president of PIALA, presents gifts to HLA President Stewart Chun on behalf of the associations.

HLA 2011 under way!

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Thank you to our sponsors

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The Hawaii Library Association would like to thank our 2011 conference Corporate Sponsors.

HSPLS offers IT certification

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The Hawaii State Public Library System, in partnership with the Microsoft Corporation, will become the first public library system in the world to provide Digital Literacy and Microsoft IT Academy Programs for technology training and preparation for certifications for all Hawaii's library patrons. The Microsoft IT Academy program is the first training program to launch under the HSPLS HI Tech Academy initiative and is expected to reach nearly one million people across the state of Hawaii.

"The program's digital literacy resources will equip Hawaii's library patrons with the technical skills needed to become more employable and successful in the 21st century workplace," said Microsoft Chief Officer for Research and Strategy Craig Mundie.

The Microsoft IT Academy provides access to e-learning, certification preparation, and official Microsoft course materials, which will help users to qualify for and acquire industry-recognized Microsoft Office Specialist, Microsoft Technology Associate or Microsoft Certified Professional certifications.

"IT certifications are increasingly recognized as valuable credentials that give young people expanded career opportunities," said Donald Horner, chairman of the Hawaii State Board of Education. "The Microsoft IT Academy ensures patrons equal access to IT training and certification through all libraries across the state regardless of location or economic status."

To access the Microsoft IT Academy, a list of the certification sites, and course curriculum, visit the library system's Web site. Library patrons with valid library cards can access the courses of their choice at any time in all public libraries, remotely and via mobile devices with authentication.

HLA Registration deadline approaching!

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Don't forget to register for the 2011 HLA Conference! If you are paying by check, postmark deadline is Nov. 21. If you're paying by credit card, deadline is Nov. 27.

More information on this year's conference, "The Future of Reading," as well as the preliminary program is available on the HLA Web site.

Business Librarianship Award seeking nominees

2011-11-17T17:44:00.000-10:00

Gale Cengage Learning is now seeking nominations for its Award for Excellence in Business Librarianship. The recepient receives a $3,000 cash award and a citation.

Applicants for this award will be evaluated based on their contribution to the field of business librarianship. These contributions may include, but are not limited to: authorship of a seminal book or articles in business librarianship; development of an imaginative and successful program centered around business within a library; teaching business librarianship in a particularly creative and substantive manner; and displaying strong leadership in a professional association geared to business librarianship.

To submit a nomination, click here for more information and the nomination form.

The award and citation will be presented at the RUSA Awards ceremony at the 2012 ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim.

Registration open!

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Registration for the 2011 HLA Conference is now open! Register online via the HLA Web site.

This year's annual conference will be held at the Moana Surfrider, Monday, Dec. 5.

Inaugural Peacock scholarship awarded

2011-10-26T16:26:00.000-10:00

PIALA President Atarino Helieisar has been named the inaugural recepient of the Karen M. Peacock Memorial PIALA Scholarship Award. The new award provides up to $1,000 to a current PIALA member to help fund HLA Conference attendance.

Helieisar, the chief law librarian in Pohnpei, FSM, has been active in the library community in Micronesia. He will give a presentation called "Experiences with HLA: A Personal Story" at the 2011 HLA Conference.

OCLC receives additional funding for U.S. public library awareness campaign

2011-10-13T15:57:00.002-10:00

OCLC's Geek the Library community awareness campaign, piloted in 2009 and 2010 and now available to all U.S. public libraries, has received an additional grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The supplementary $726,000 provides ongoing campaign materials and field support for libraries currently running the campaign, and allows OCLC to work with additional public libraries that sign up by March 31, 2012. Funding ensures that participating libraries can use the campaign to reach their local communities through June 2013.

"We are so pleased to be able to continue to support libraries as they roll out the Geek the Library campaign across the country," said Cathy De Rosa, vice president of global marketing for OCLC. "It is so important to continue to build awareness about the vital role libraries serve in their communities and the urgent need for funding. We are grateful to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for their ongoing and strong support for libraries, and their partnership on the Geek the Library program."

Since launch, hundreds of libraries across the U.S. have enrolled to run local Geek the Library campaigns - and more than 100 new campaigns have kicked off since the pilot ended. Participants are embracing the campaign, and are enthusiastically customizing content and actively involving their communities.

"The campaign puts a stamp of personalization on the services and materials that public libraries offer, and this is so important as we strive to diminish that stereotype of libraries as archaic institutions filled with dusty books," said Andrea Legg, extension & technical services manager from Tuscarawas County Public Library System in New Philadelphia, Ohio. "By encouraging patrons to share what they geek with us and by reminding them that we support what they geek, we're helping to redefine our public library as a place that cultivates our patrons' personal interests. It results in a much more meaningful, interactive experience for our customers."

Participating libraries receive an initial kit of Geek the Library materials, such as posters and stickers, plus additional kits as the campaign progresses, along with access to a comprehensive online guide to implementing the campaign. This resource features pages of advice for each phase of a local campaign, printable documents, art templates and images, a forum to share ideas with other participating libraries, and a blog that features ideas and updates weekly. Field managers also provide assistance in planning and rollout, and are available to respond to questions throughout the campaign period.

Geek the Library has a national campaign presence with its website, geekthelibrary.org, and social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. Geek the Library was developed based on the results of OCLC's research published in "From Awareness to Funding: A study of library support in America." The research and pilot campaign were also funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Libraries can get more information about implementing the campaign locally at get.geekthelibrary.org.

Registration open for Distinctive Women in Hawaiian History program

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Register now for the fifth annual Distinctive Women in Hawaiian History Program, Saturday, Oct. 29, at the Hawai`i Convention Center. Register online at www.distinctivewomenhawaii.org.

Sponsored by the Hawai`i Council for the Humanities,this year's themes are ancient women of Hawai`i and women activists. Topics range from local female activists during the women's suffrage movement, Mormon missionary women, Princess Nahinu Kamehaokalani, and WWII era stories that include Korean activist Dora Moon, public health nurse Harriet Kuwamoto, and social worker Jennie Lee In. And there's poetry, paying homage to women in transition with detours and mid-life reinventions.

The program also features a performance by by Kumu Hula Patrick Makuakane with Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu interpreting the roles of na wahine Hawai`i (native Hawaiian women). It has mythology, Hawaiian culture, extraordinary choreography, humor, and the excitement of well-told, fast-moving stories. Kumu Patrick is also a panelist in a follow-up presentation.

Register online to take advantage of a special offer from the Mission Houses Museum for 20 percent off Spookilau, an event exploring the paranormal in downtown Honolulu.

ALA Midwinter scholarships available

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The American Library Association and EBSCO are partnering to offer five scholarships for librarians to attend the 2012 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Dallas. The meeting takes place Jan. 20 - 24, 2012, and offers an opportunity for continuing education, meetings and interaction with colleagues.

Each EBSCO scholarship will be in the amount of $1,500, and one of the five scholarships will be awarded to a first-time conference attendee. The scholarship money is to be used for conference registration, travel and expenses.

Deadline for entry is Nov. 1; scholarship recipients will be notified no later than Dec. 12. To apply, candidates must complete the application criteria and submit an essay that addresses the following topic: "If you could change anything about your current workplace or job responsibilities, how would you position them to meet future needs?" Essays and applications will be judged by a jury designated by ALA.

Join HLA & ALA for one low price!

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If you're a student, you can join HLA and ALA for just $35 from now through Aug. 31, 2012.

To apply for membership, fill out the HLA-ALA joint student membership form and mail or fax it to the ALA Chapter Relations office at 50 E. Huron Street, Chicago, IL, 60611, fax 312-280-4392.

For more information, visit the ALA Student Membership blog.

Access Library Worklife for free

2011-09-13T16:41:00.000-10:00

American Library Association members can now access Library Worklife: HR eNews for Today's Leaders as part of their membership in the association. ALA subscribers will receive quarterly e-mail alerts highlighting the previous month's articles.

For more information, visit the Library Worklife Web site.

Hawaii Schools Awarded Grant

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St. Francis and Hongwanji Mission School were among several schools nationwide to receive a 2011 Capstone Assisting Remarkable Educators grant. The grants are a part of a program by Capstone Digital, developer of personalized literacy environments for students, to help improve literacy in schools. More than 30 schools from 20 school districts across the country have been awarded matching grants, funding dollar for dollar their purchase of myON reader, an online personalized literacy environment developed by Capstone that matches students' interests and reading levels to a recommended booklist of more than 1,300 enhanced digital books.

"We're thrilled to help offset the federal funding many educators were counting on and offer these remarkable schools access to the resources and tools that will provide unlimited reading and learning opportunities for their students," said Todd Brekhus, president of Capstone Digital.

Help research library workplace

2011-07-27T16:58:00.000-10:00

Emotions can be difficult to manage in the workplace. Calming a frustrated patron, assisting an impatient researcher, mediating an inter-staff conflict, answering the same question for the twentieth time with a smile—any of these situations might call for what researchers term "emotional labor." Researchers at Kent State University are conducting a study to learn about how librarians and library workers manage emotions in the workplace.

Click here to complete a short anonymous survey to assist with this research. They anticipate it will take approximately 15 minutes to complete.

LIS program seeks your input

2011-06-24T17:06:00.000-10:00

The University of Hawaii's Library and Information Science Program is in the process of re-examining its required core
courses and is seeking valuable feedback on this matter from information professionals in the community. This is a voluntary
activity; if you have a few minutes, please help by completing the LIS curriculum survey.

If you have questions about the survey's content, please contact the chair of the LIS Curriculum Committee, Violet Harada. If you have technical problems, please contact Dore Minatodani.

The survey closes July 31.

Help rebuild libraries in Alabama

2011-06-17T17:11:00.002-10:00

In the aftermath of the historic storms of April 27, the Alabama Library Association has established a special account to serve as a collection point for those wanting to help the numerous libraries and communities affected by the storms. These funds will be distributed by the Association Executive Council with input from the Alabama Public Library Service, Alabama School Library Association and the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries.

For more information on how you can help the rebuilding efforts in Alabama, visit the ALA's Helping Libraries page.

Kapolei hosts show-and-tell lecture on bookbinding

2011-06-08T17:37:00.004-10:00

The Art of Bookbinding with Ken Cannon, bookbinder

Kapolei Public Library
Saturday, June 18
10:30 a.m.

After a brief look at binding history, this program will cover the principles of hand-binding and an overview of papers. We will be introduced to the several types of bindings, boards and cover materials in use today and see samples of each one. Finally, we will discuss the greening of the book business and its effects on the bookbinding industry today.

Ken Cannon has been a bookbinder since apprenticing in 1977 at the Robert Burlen Bookbindery (founded in 1856) in Boston under Master Bookbinder, Myron Stephens. Ken was later Vice President of the Nicholstone Bookbindery of Nashville, as well as President/CEO of Spectrum Graphics in Concord, N.H. He is now a resident of Kapolei.

Med School director new NLM Board chair

2011-06-06T17:16:00.000-10:00

Virginia "Ginny" Tanji, director of the health sciences library at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, has been elected to serve as chair of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine. Her appointment comes as NLM prepares to celebrate its 175th anniversary, which will include a special exhibit that focuses on native peoples, including Native Hawaiians.

The National Library of Medicine is part of the National Institutes of Health. Tanji is one of only two health sciences librarians currently serving on the board. Eight other board members were appointed from leaders in the fields of medicine, dentistry, public health, hospital administration, pharmacology and bioinformatics. The board meets three times a year to advise, consult with, and make recommendations to the director of NLM on matters related to the library.

Tanji said preparation has been underway for some time for this fall's 175th anniversary celebration, which will include the opening of a special exhibit titled Native Voices: Native Peoples' Concept of Illness, on Oct. 5, at the national medical library, which is located in Bethesda, Md.

Help rebuild libraries in Japan

2011-05-19T18:06:00.002-10:00

The massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake on March 11 triggered a tsunami that struck the east coast, devastating much of the Tohoku area in Japan. Fifteen thousand people are confirmed dead with more than 9,000 still missing.

Libraries in the region were also devastated in the region. The Minami-Sanriku Town Library disappeared without a trace. The chief librarian was killed. Rikuzen-Takata City suffered catastrophic damage from the tsunami. Most of the city area is covered with piles of rubble. All library staff members were killed or are still missing. The framework of library building remains, but nothing is left inside. 70 out of 355 public libraries in five prefectures are closed. Others are now serving as shelters for those who have lost their homes.

The American Library Association has set up this site to help take in donations from the United States for Japan Library Association, who is leading the effort to help provide services and support. Please consider making a donation to help rebuild libraries in Japan.

UHM professor earns national award

2011-04-26T16:29:00.000-10:00

University of Hawaii at Manoa LIS professor and associate chair Dr. Violet H. Harada is the 2011 recipient of the American Association of School Librarian’s Distinguished Service Award. Established in 1978, the award, sponsored by Baker and Taylor, recognizes an individual member of the library profession who has, over a significant period of time, made an outstanding national contribution to school librarianship and school library development.

Harada was nominated by Carolyn Kirio and Debora Lum.

"Harada is a visionary mentor, instructor, colleague and advocate," read the nomination submitted by Kirio. "She continues to mold/influence librarianship with her expertise and knowledge. [She] is definitely a leader in the field."

Working to advance the profession, Harada has served on many AASL and other national educational association committees. Most recently, she was a member of the learning standards indicators and assessment task force that was charged with developing indicators, benchmarks and model examples from the AASL learning standards. The task force’s work culminated in the publication of "Standards for the 21st-Century Learner In Action." She has represented school library interests as an invited participant of the U.S. Department of Education's America Reads Challenge roundtable and as a member of the Student Learning through Ohio School Libraries international advisory panel.

Locally, Harada has served as an executive board member of the Hawaii Association of School Librarians (HASL) since 1993 and as member of the school library services advisory board in the Hawaii Department of Education. With the DOE, Harada has worked to establish guidelines and models for effective library programming. From 1995-1997, Harada was a commissioner for the Hawaii State Public Library System on the Oahu Public Library Advisory Commission. For her dedication and contributions to school librarianship in Hawaii, HASL awarded Harada with the 1990 Golden Key Award.

Harada has served as a professor in the computer sciences, library and information science program at the University of Hawaii since 1984. According to the nomination application submitted by Lum, "whether teaching graduate students or facilitating workshops for school librarians, Harada creates opportunities to connect theory to practice when developing their programs." For this exceptional teaching, Harada received the 2010 Sarah K. Vann Award for Professional Service and University of Hawaii-Manoa's 1998 Presidential Citation for Meritorious Teaching Award. Her students' success is a testament to her dedicated mentoring, as one has received AASL's School Library Program of the Year award and another was recognized as part of AASL President Nancy Everhart's Vision Tour.

"Dr. Violet Harada exemplifies the qualities worthy of the AASL Distinguished Service Award," said Janice Ostrom, award committee member. "She has received many grants and awards including the AASL ABC-CLIO Leadership Grant to further her research. Dr. Harada's career includes a lifetime of library research and dissemination of the knowledge gained through workshops, conferences, and professional writing. She has influenced the profession as a researcher, teacher, mentor and advocate. It is with great pleasure we honor Dr. Harada's service to the library profession."

State Support for Library Services Declining

2011-04-20T17:35:00.002-10:00

Many State Library Administrative Agencies are reporting steep and sudden declines in state revenues for library services, according to a report released today by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The majority of states reported reductions, with six states reporting losses of greater than 15 percent in one year. Overall, 51 SLAAs collected $34 million less in state revenue in FY 2009 than they did in FY 2008. During the same period, SLAAs lost 227 full-time employees, a one-year decrease of 6.7 percent.

SLAAs play an important role in planning and evaluating library services in the states. While the range of services each SLAA provides differs state by state, all are tasked with administering the IMLS Grants to States program, which helps libraries embrace technology, serve underserved populations, and develop new service models.

"State Library Administrative Agencies are part of the educational and economic fabric of the nation," said Susan Hildreth, director of IMLS. "SLAAs assess needs for library services in the state and support a wide range of programs that support the nation's libraries as they help people get work, pursue their education, and strengthen the civic life of communities everywhere. It is important for us to track and report about the health of these essential state agencies."

New Tech Services chair

2011-04-13T16:37:00.002-10:00

The Technical Services Section is delighted to announce that Nancy Sack of the University of Hawai`i at Manoa Library has agreed to serve as the Section Chair. Nancy is planning some exciting programming related to the implementation of RDA (Resource Description and Access) and other developments in technical services. You may contact her at sack [at] hawaii [dot] edu.

Share your support for libraries!

2011-04-13T16:37:00.000-10:00

Let your local legislators know that libraries are important to you to help celebrate National Library Week! Send an e-mail to your governor and representatives today, and pass this message on to your friends and colleagues.

Libraries continue to be busier than ever helping families survive during these tough economic times, yet public libraries, school libraries, and academic libraries are facing closures and elimination of librarians and library workers—the people who help those with a job application, teach 21st-century skills, and nurture the love of reading in kids that will serve them the rest of their lives.

State governments provide much needed funding for libraries to provide public access to the Internet to everyone, critical databases for individuals and small businesses, and homework help.

2011 State of America's Libraries Report now available

2011-04-12T16:20:00.001-10:00

Library trends of the past year are detailed in the State of America's Libraries 2011, released during National Library Week, April 10-16, by the American Library Association.

Even as budget-cutters take aim at libraries and their services, more than two-thirds of the 1,000-plus adults contacted in a survey in January said that the library's assistance in starting a business or finding a job was important to them, according to the poll, conducted for ALA by Harris Interactive.

Sixty-five percent of those polled said they had visited the library in the past year; women are significantly more likely than men (72 percent vs. 58 percent) to fall into this category, especially working women, working mothers and women aged 18-54. Overall, 58 percent of those surveyed said they had a library card, and the largest group was, again, women, especially working women and working mothers. College graduates and those with a household income of more than $100,000 were also well represented among card holders, according to the survey.

Bring traveling Civil War exhibit to your library

2011-04-12T16:19:00.000-10:00

The ALA Public Programs Office, in partnership with the National Constitution Center and the National Endowment for the Humanities, is accepting online applications for a large-scale tour of the traveling exhibition "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War" through May 5 at www.ala.org/civilwarprograms. Eligible institutions include but are not limited to public, research and special libraries; historical societies; museums; civic, community and heritage organizations; and institutes of higher learning. Funding for the exhibition and tour is provided by a major grant from NEH.

Using the U.S. Constitution as its cohesive thread, "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War" offers a fresh and innovative perspective on the Civil War that brings into focus the constitutional crises at the heart of this great conflict. The exhibition identifies these crises—the secession of the Southern states, slavery and wartime civil liberties—and explores how Lincoln sought to meet these political and constitutional challenges.

Two hundred sites will be selected to host the 1,000 square foot exhibition for a period of six weeks each from September 2011 through May 2015. Each site will receive a $750 grant to support expenses related to exhibition programming. Participating institutions are expected to present at least two free public programs featuring a lecture or discussion by a qualified scholar on exhibition themes. All showings of the exhibition must be free and open to the public.

"Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War" is supported by NEH's We the People initiative, which aims to stimulate and enhance the teaching, study and understanding of American history and culture. For more information, including project guidelines, programming resources and the online application, visit www.ala.org/civilwarprograms.

Scholarly Communication Road Show makes a stop at UHM

2011-03-31T16:44:00.000-10:00

You are invited to attend the upcoming ACRL Scholarly Communication 101 Road Show. The University of Hawaii at Manoa Library is honored to have been selected by ACRL to host a Scholarly Communication 101 Road Show on April 25.

They will be sending two dynamic presenters to conduct a four-hour workshop discussing important topics revolving around scholarly communication: changes in scholarly publishing and its economic issues, copyright, and open access, to name a few.

In addition, participants will have a chance to brainstorm with their colleagues about these issues as they apply to our UH system schools.

Please join us on that day at Hamilton Library on the UHM campus. Find out more and register for the event.

For more information, please contact Sara Rutter or Beth Tillinghast of the UHM Library.

Go to ALA for free!

2011-03-31T16:43:00.000-10:00

The American Library Association's Freedom to Read Foundation has opened applications for the 2011 Gordon M. Conable Conference Scholarship. This scholarship is open to current library school students and new professionals to attend the 2011 ALA Annual Conference, June 23-28 in New Orleans.

The Conable Scholarship provides for conference registration, transportation, housing for six nights, and per diem expenses. In return, the recipient will be expected to attend various FTRF and other intellectual freedom meetings and programs at conference, consult with a mentor/board member, and present a report about their experiences and thoughts.

For more information and to apply for the Conable Scholarship, visit the FTRF Web site.

Deadline to apply is Friday, April 8.

Free FTRF Membership for LIS Graduates

2011-03-31T16:42:00.002-10:00

Are you a recent library school graduate? The American Library Association's Freedom to Read Foundation is offering free membership to new librarians who graduated from an ALA-accredited LIS program within the last three months.

As benefits of their membership, the graduates will receive the Freedom to Read Foundation’s quarterly newsletter, and be eligible to vote in the annual trustee election and attend FTRF member receptions. The membership will be good through December 2011. Those graduates who are already members of the Freedom to Read Foundation will have their membership extended one year.

Click here for more information and to take advantage of the offer.

FTRF announces competition for 2011 Banned Books Week grants

2011-03-30T17:06:00.002-10:00

Applications are now open for the 2011 Judith Krug Fund Banned Books Week event grants, sponsored by the Freedom to Read Foundation. Four grants in the amount of $2,500 and $1,000 grants will be given to organizations in support of "Read-Outs" or other activities that celebrate Banned Books Week (Sept. 24 – Oct. 1, 2011).

Applications for the grants will be accepted through May 13, 2011, and the announcements will be made the week of Aug. 1, 2011. Banned Books Week 2011 will be held Sept. 24-Oct. 1, 2011.

Click here to read more

Spring Meeting registration deadline approaching

2011-03-29T16:52:00.000-10:00

Don't forget to register for the HLA Spring Meeting. Registration closes tomorrow, March 30, at midnight. Click here to register online.

Click here for more info on the April 8 meeting at the plaza club.

Let HLA help pay your way!

2011-03-14T16:31:00.000-10:00

HLA is now accepting applications for scholarships of up to $1,000 for library professionals and paraprofessionals seeking continuing education and current UHM LIS students. The deadline to apply is April 29, 2011.

For more information and to apply, visit the HLA Web site.

A message from ALA President Roberta Stevens

2011-03-14T16:27:00.002-10:00

Dear Members,

First and foremost, I want to thank you for your patience. I held back on a public statement on the recent decision by Harper Collins to restrict the lending of e-books until the Equitable Access to Electronic Information Task Force (EQUACC) met last week. Please know that I heard your voices of concern about the impact of additional costs on your libraries and ability to meet the needs of the communities you serve. A press release was issued today that speaks to our shared alarm at announced and potential limitations to the access to knowledge, information and the creative written works of authors in the electronic era. We know that libraries are essential to an informed nation and therefore our democracy. I have been and will continue to highlight our commitment to access in every media interview I give.

As an outgrowth of EQUACC's working retreat, a website will be launched within the next week. The site will allow you to provide your comments and ideas. The site’s availability will be announced using the many ways we have within the association to "get the word out."

I want to express my thanks to the task force members, the representative from the E-Book Subcommittee and staff of the Office of Information Technology and Policy. Their collective efforts to tackle this complicated topic and provide a means to reach out broadly to our members and organizations affiliated with ALA are important to our being informed and taking wise actions.

I also wanted to give you the heads up that equitable access to information and e-books will be the subject of the first virtual Membership Meeting. The meeting is scheduled for June 1. More information will be forthcoming as we get the plans in place.

Thank you for your support,

Roberta Stevens, ALA President

HPR exec to headline HLA Spring Meeting

2011-03-11T16:48:00.000-10:00

Michael Titterton, president and general manager of Hawaii Public Radio, will be the featured speaker at the HLA Spring Meeting on April 8 at the Plaza Club in Honolulu. Join us for an informative and thoughtful evening with a strategic thinker who builds positive community relationships for his organization.

Click here to reserve your spot at the Spring Meeting through March 30.

HLA Spring Meeting registration now open!

2011-03-09T17:24:00.000-10:00

You can now register for the HLA Spring Meeting online. The meeting is scheduled for Friday, April 8, at the Plaza Club.

Online registration continues through March 30.

Click here for more information and driving directions

Local library featured in ALA magazine

2011-03-09T17:14:00.000-10:00

The Makiki Community Library is featured in a March 7 column published by American Libraries, the magazine of the American Library Association, "The Little Library That Could"

Inspiring libraries are often the ones with big budgets. They have impressive buildings, enormous collections, and large staffs. The Makiki Community Library in Honolulu, Hawaii, has none of these things, but that doesn’t make it any less remarkable. This small donations-based, volunteer-driven organization effectively executes its deep-seated mission of engaging the community.

Read the full article online at the American Libraries Web site

HLA Spring Meeting set

2011-03-01T16:40:00.002-10:00

Join HLA for its 2011 Spring Meeting on Friday, April 8, at the Plaza Club in Downtown Honolulu.

HLA Spring Meeting
Friday, April 8, 5:30 p.m.
Dinner: 6:30 p.m., Special Guest Speaker: 7:30 p.m.
Cost: $25 members, $40 non-members

Register online at HLAWeb.org March 7-30.

For more information, including menu and driving directions, check out the invitation.

Share your hidden collections

2011-02-14T11:26:00.000-10:00

The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections cooperative cataloging program is looking for participants in Hawaii. Through NUCMC, the Library of Congress and eligible U.S. archival and manuscript repositories provide and promote bibliographic access to the nation's documentary heritage, thus celebrating the diversity of American life and providing an excellent tool for genealogical and historical research for the last 50 years.

In particular, NUCMC is looking for smaller institutions or repositories that may hold hidden collections that NUCMC could describe and make known at the national and international level. The standardized bibliographic records created and distributed via this international database are sometimes the first broad exposure for a repository's collections, often generating wider usage and public awareness that in turn speak persuasively for increased support from funders and administrators for hidden collections.

To be eligible, a repository must 1) be located in the U.S. or its territories; 2) must regularly admit researchers; and 3) must lack the capability of entering its own manuscript cataloging into OCLC.

Participating repositories, such as local historical societies, museums, public libraries, or town clerk's offices, provide NUCMC with information (main entry, title, date range, size, scope, etc.) describing their archival and manuscript holdings. NUCMC staff at the Library of Congress then use the information provided to create MARC bibliographic records describing the repository's holdings in OCLC WorldCat. Additionally, anyone with access to the World Wide Web has free access to the entire OCLC archival and mixed collections file through the NUCMC Web site.

For more information, e-mail NUCMC.

Support Library Legislative Day

2011-02-14T11:24:00.000-10:00

Help support the American Library Association's 2011 National Library Legislative Day.

For more than 30 years, NLLD has been a driving force in federal library advocacy. Each year, more than 500 librarians travel to Washington, D.C., where they receive training and briefings to prepare for meetings with their members of Congress. Many continue their advocacy activities when they return home by attending town hall meetings and by meeting with their representatives at local events.

We need to make sure libraries have the voices they need and deserve in Congress.

Your contribution remains extremely important to the success of NLLD and helps defray the cost of this crucial event. Organizations and individuals who contribute will be listed as a sponsor on the ALA Web site and in folders distributed to Members of Congress.

For information on how to contribute, contact Kristin Murphy.

American Library Association: President's budget strips library funding

2011-02-14T11:04:00.002-10:00

WASHINGTON, D.C. – American Library Association President Roberta Stevens released the following statement today regarding President Obama's 2012 budget request:.

The president's budget proposal strips funding away from one of our greatest resources for lifelong learning – our libraries. Libraries are fundamental to meeting the reading and information needs of communities nationwide. During this difficult recession, they rose to the challenge of helping Americans get back to work through vital assistance with online job searches and applications as well as resume development. In addition, many libraries hold classes to teach the critical 21st century digital literacy skills that are essential to thriving in today's global economy.

We believe President Obama's request to cut funding to library services is short-sighted, when libraries are being used by millions of people every day. When we invest in them, we invest in the future of our country. We ask Congress to restore the support for America's libraries.

The president's budget requested $194 million for assistance to libraries to be administered by the Institute of Museum and Libraries Services. This request is approximately $20 million below the current funding level.

Like last year, the president chose to consolidate the Improving Literacy Through School Libraries program with several other literacy programs.

A Digital Librarian's Toolkit

2010-11-12T17:26:00.002-10:00

Presented by Michael Lascarides, New York Public Library

Michael Lascarides specializes in usability analysis and user experience design. Before joining the New York Public Library, Lascarides was a programmer and information architect for a wide variety of commercial clients. He teaches in the Computer Art MFA program at the School of Visual Arts.

Lascarides presented a very fast-paced and exciting talk on how to serve and engage your patrons through your Web site. Some of his ideas include the following:

1. Watch your patrons do stuff. For those who spend most of their time fixing their Web sites, it is very difficult to sometimes see the big picture of what's wrong with your Web site. It is important to spend time among your patrons and watch them use your site. He highly recommends the books "Don't Make Me Think" and "Why We Buy" to get a fresh perspective on system design.

2. Look at what's on every screen in your library. What messages are these things sending to people? There is a difference between service and hospitality. Eighty-seven percent of catalog usage is from off site, so understand that informational messages that direct patrons to the circulation desk are useless and frustrating. In fact, instructions are signs of design failure. Know that your patrons are not stupid, and that training your patrons out of problems is only a stopgap measure. Bad software makes people feel they failed.

3. Send user feedback to software vendors. You are the main channel of information that vendors need to improve their products.

4. Use Google analytics. Lascarides did try Omniture to get usage information, but found that Google Analytics does most of what Omniture does for free.

5. Decide what metrics measure your success. One project Lascarides worked on involved tracking NYPL's Digital Gallery. They noticed that after launching a redesign of the site, the pages per visit and time on the site dropped. However, total visits, page views, and the traffic from search engines went up. Patrons were looking at the site more frequently and for shorter visits, displaying more frequent tool usage behavior. The length of a web visit is very context-dependent and not a good measure of its success. For example, a lengthy visit may be due to the fact that the patron cannot find what she or he is searching.

6. Do a Twitter search for your library. Set up an RSS feed on Twitter for your library, feed it to Google reader to monitor what is being posted.

7. Look for stories in your Google Analytics search terms. NYPL found that the most popular search term at NYPL is "tumblebooks," e-books for children, discovering that young mothers comprise a very important segment of their audience.

8. List things your patrons are passionate about. Check your analytics and ask your staff, then extend the conversation about those things.

9. Create a library Twitter account. NYPL posts interesting lines from its books with links back to their catalog record.

10. Get on Wikipedia and create informational links back to your library.

-- Sunny Pai

HATHITRUST 101: An Introduction to the Shared Digital Repository

2010-11-10T16:29:00.000-10:00

Presented by Maria Bonn, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

The seed for Hathitrust was Michigan's agreement with Google, who wanted to digitize the university's research collection. As part of the agreement, the niversity got the digital copies from Google so that they could share them with their peer institutions. In addition, UM has lots of Internet Archive content and locally digitized content. Hathitrust focuses exclusively on text content. The system was developed from scratch and the interface is open source. The goal of the collections development policy was to replicate a research library.

Hathitrust consists of a partnership that includes Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, New York Public Library, Yale and the University of California system. This is a universal digital library, a single repository governed by an executive committee and strategic advisory board.

The repository has over 7 million volumes; 24 percent are in the public domain, and 86 percent are in 10 different languages. It has 75 volumes in the Hawaiian language. In 2008, it contained 2.5 million volumes and Hathitrust projects a total of 14 million by 2012.

Services include bit-level preservation. It is primarily a digital preservation archive, but has an access system. It includes a rights database and copyright review. It focuses on scholarly resources, supports bibliographic search using MARC records, full text search, the creation of personal collections and full-text PDF download.

It has an interface for users with disabilities. Any book, with copyright or not, can be checked out by users with disabilities.

One of its services is the collection builder. Faculty can create collections and share them with their students. If you create an account, you can make your collections permanent.

Hathitrust partners have the rights to full pdf downloads. Digital storage is in two places in Michigan and one in Indiana.

The effort is supported by project managers, a communications working group and a metadata group.

In June 2009 research libraries showed 19 percent duplication among their collections. In 2010 this was up to 31 percent duplication among American research libraries. Currently there is a substantial overlap in shared repositories.

Hathitrust is very good at ingesting content from Google and from the Internet Archive. Its future directions include developing usage reporting, methods of quality assessment, more services through shibboleth and focusing on born-digital content.

-- Sunny Pai

Real World Experiences with Old World Tape Formats: Distribution of Archival Moving Images through Amazon's CreateSpace Disc-on-Demand

2010-11-10T16:28:00.001-10:00

Presented by Janel Quirante, Stanford University, and Craig Asato, DC Video.

Asato and Quirante talked about the challenges of preserving moving images and a creative solution in providing access over the Internet.

Asato presented first, describing the work his company does with moving images. The company specializes in restoring and remastering archived media, including damage repair, cleanup, preservation and migrating obsolete recording formats to current formats.

Asato reminded the audience that tapes don't last forever, the machines and the parts to maintain them are disappearing and even the people who know how to run the machines are now hard to find. Asato showed us several images of damaged tapes. When water and fire resistant containers are not used, tapes can suffer water and mold damage. Tapes can get wrinkled and too sticky to unwind. The glue from the foam flange on tape containers can cause damage when the flange deteriorates and gets stuck to the tape. A technique called tape baking at 130 degrees helps to stabilize tapes against hydrolysis and removes stickiness. Metal tapes do not have to be baked. Asato noted that Hawaii has one of the harshest environments for tapes.

The process for transferring content from one tape to another media involves:
• proper machine setup
• signal alignment
• human monitoring of transfer
• and the transfer to analog or digital formats

Asato suggested that for storing tapes, they need a clean, stable environment with temperature and humidity control. The tapes should be stored upright and the collection monitored regularly. If a tape has mold it should not be played, as it will damage the player.

Janel Quirante described her work at the Hoover Institute with the Firing Line video collection. This television series was first produced by a New York television company and then by PBS. It ran from 1966 to 1999 and was hosted by William F. Buckley Jr., who focused each show on a different social issue and highlighted famous guests. The Hoover Institute has the entire collection and all the copyrights. This includes 1,505 titles and 3,043 accessioned videotapes in five different formats. The most common format they have is the three-quarter-inch Umatics. A third of the titles have been preserved; 992 are not yet preserved. The Institute chose to first preserve shows for which they had only one copy and shows which featured particularly famous guests or popular topics. It costs $500 per hour of footage to preserve the tapes. Problems with their tapes include glue, wrinkles and debris. The Institute depends on grants and some sales, but they break even.

The Institute now partners with Amazon to distribute the videos. Amazon's Disc on Demand has helped with creating a revenue to support their preservation efforts. Amazon does the digitizing, stores the master on their servers and creates the dvds. Currently, 107 titles are on sale at Amazon (others can be purchased through special order).

Amazon requires that the organization it works with has copyright for all the content, including DVD artwork. It also requires that the organization provide the metadata. Amazon has a metadata spreadsheet that was easy to use. Many of the metadata elements were what the Institute used.

Amazon accepts all kinds of formats and accepted the Hoover Institute's betacam digital video format since the Institute chose that format for preservation. The DVDs include the FBI copyright statement and information about the Hoover Institute and how the tape was preserved and archived. The DVD artwork was selected from their collection and used to create a design template. The descriptive text on the DVD cover changes within the context of the design.

Quirante had an administrative account so they could log in and run reports on the Amazon colletion. When they started marketing the DVDs interest was very high because, coincidentally, Buckley had died earlier that same year. They promoted the sales by loading samples on YouTube. They have sold 11,000 DVDs and earned $40,000 in royalties. The funds were used to preserve 47 additional titles. The hope is to continue with preserving the rest of the collection.

Amazon charged a fee of $25/hour for the digitizing service and gets a cut of the royalties. The more videos you digitize, the cheaper the cost. You can set your own list price. The Institute gets a proof copy. The Institute can choose to sell the DVDs elsewhere, decide which DVDs to keep on the Amazon site and change the price of the DVDs.

-- Sunny Pai

Library in the Clouds: How Can Cloud Computing Transform Your Library?

2010-11-10T16:26:00.001-10:00

Presented by: Keiko Okuhara, University of Hawaii Law Library and Sunyeen Pai, Kapiolani Community College Library

Okuhara and Pai began the session by describing an overview of cloud computing or using Web-based processing. Some of the features of cloud computing include: scalability, multi-tasking, virtualization and lower cost from removing the infrastructure challenges away from your local institution and allowing the networked expertise "in the cloud" to handle the complex services. Some basic concerns include legal or organizational issues, such as privacy concerns, lack of flexibility in terms of customized services, and Service Level Agreements as contracts.

Applications of cloud computing in libraries include OpenURL-linking software and instructional materials such as LibGuides. OCLC is creating a web-scale management service to provide a unified library system "in the cloud," complete with circulation, acquisitions, delivery and license management services in addition to its catalog interface.

Based on their World Cafe style discussion at the Hawaii Voyager User Group Meeting in May, Pai continued to investigate two important issues: what are the advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing and what's missing from your understanding of cloud computing so far? Advantages include: ease of collaboration and sharing, lower maintenance costs and process, scalable, leveraging differences between large organization and small organizations in terms of technology costs and use. Disadvantages include: Confidentiality, privacy, security and data storage concerns. In general, who controls the data and where is it housed is a big concern; Pai gave the example of Orwell books downloaded from Amazon.com which were deleted without a trace from people's Kindles when Amazon discovered potential licensing or copyright issues.

The University of Hawaii System will be using Google as our e-mail provider in the future, which prompted Pai to consider the benefits and disadvantages to this decision. What's missing in our understanding?

How the library is using or will use the various kinds of cloud computing options available including: Software as a Service (SaaS) such as Google docs and LibGuides, Platform as a Service (PaaS), which enables the library to have control as a host environment, and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), where much of the infrastructure is contracted out of the library. In general, cloud computing offers agility and operational benefits to a library by using accumulated technology and expertise "in the cloud."

-- Amy Carlson

Ten Important Legal Issues Every Digital Librarian Should Know

2010-11-09T15:24:00.004-10:00

Presented by: John Gathegi, University of South Florida

Any librarian working with digital content must learn the basics of copyright law. This presentation provides the basics on copyright issues, specifically addressing the possible problems that a digital librarian might face.

First, is the material copyrighted? The answer may be complex, especially in a mishmash of formats, or depending upon the year in which the material was created. Prior to 1976, the required formalities to receive a copyright were not needed, making materials after 1976 much easier to obtain copyright. It's good to keep in mind that the law protects the expression of ideas.

Second, who owns the content? When you seek permission to use the content, it may be difficult to determine the copyright owner. The initial owner is the author. But who owns the copyright for joint authors or when the corporation as employer owns the copyright? The owner can transfer copyright ownership as property, but the copyright can not be transferred involuntarily by an act of Government, unlike property.

Third, what rights does the content owner have? Such rights include: reproduction, to prepare derivative works, distribution, public performance and public display. The Visual Artists Rights Act also ensures additional rights for the visual artists, which can claim or disassociate authorship of work or to prevent their name on a work they did not create or their name on a work which would harm their reputation. Some interesting side points: if one of the joint authors waives his or her rights, all of the authors' rights are waived. Also, the new copyright owner receives exactly the same protections as the first.

Fourth, limitations to copyright include fair use, which specifically addresses the use by libraries and archives, including reproduction and distribution to the public.

Fifth, how long do the rights last? Congress has the right to expand the time period in the law. Currently, works will fall into public domain 70 years after the death of the author and 95 years for corporations, thanks in part to the 1998 Sonny Bono Act. Always check the Copyright Office for any possible changes to the law or to find out if the author is still alive.

Sixth, how are the rights acquired from owners? Owners may transfer rights through exchange or purchase using a written instrument, such as a license. The author has a "second bite of the apple" clause, where the terms can be renegotiated in the 5-year period following the 35 years after the execution of the grant.

Seventh, when working out a digital media license, the librarian must remember that multiple parties may require multiple licenses, that the license is a contract and that there are multiple layers of rights involved in this process.

Eighth, what is infringement and what is the result? An infringement is any action that violates the owners' rights, and anyone can infringe, even a child. Remedies may include injunctions, destroying the articles, civil damages or even criminal sanctions.

Ninth, what are digital rights management systems? They're software tools that help manage the digital content.

Tenth, 17 USC 512 allows for transmission and routing of copyrighted materials for Internet Service Providers (ISP), provided that they do not alter the content in any way. This provision or "safe harbor" allows for us to connect to copyrighted materials through the internet itself.

-- Amy Carlson

Using Game Design Principles to Drive Engagement

2010-11-09T15:23:00.003-10:00

Jim Sink, CEO of Avatar Reality, a company that designs software for creating video games, encouraged developing games and applying game concepts to library sites to help increase learning.

While you may not normally think of video games as an instructional tool, Sink assured games are about "more than collecting gold coins of blowing stuff up." Games have long been implemented for training purposes, such as with military flight simulators or for medical training.

The key to "harnessing play" for educational purposes is integrating the principles that make video games successful: competition, collaboration, leveling and social recognition.

Sink stressed there are four key things to consider when applying game principles:

What resources do you have?
How fun does it need to be?
Who is it for? (Who is the target audience?)
Where is it delivered? (On the Web? For mobile device?)

Available resources will determine what you can do. According to Sink, developing the average corporate training game costs about $75,000. But if you don't have those kind of resources available, Sink encouraged to be willing to start small. Even something like giving users points for exploring a Web site capitalizes on the concept of leveling and can be "simple, silly, but tremendously effective."

-- Lori Ann Saeki

Second look at Google Books

2010-11-09T15:22:00.006-10:00

Ryan James, who works at UHM's Hamilton Library, presented the findings from his Google Books research project. The purpose of his study was to discover the rate of error in two categories: legibility and metadata.

Legibility

Legibility: essentially whether or not the words on a page are readable.
James categorized errors as major (the page or words on the page are completely unreadable) or minor (the page or words are difficult to read, but can be deciphered).

This part of the study looked at the first 50 pages of 50 books (2500 pages). James found that less than 1% of the pages contained major or minor errors. These errors were made up mostly of fingers obscuring the pictures and gutter problems.

Metadata

To test the accuracy of the metadata, James looked at 4 categories-- title, author, publisher, publication date-- and tested 400 books. He found that 36.75 percent of the total areas checked were in error. He also found that very few of the books had more than one error their metadata. As an example of metadata error, James showed a test he did using Edgar Allan Poe. He searched Google Books for books by Poe with a publication date of 1809 or earlier. He got two results, one published in 1800, and one published in 1669. Since Poe was born in 1809, these dates are obviously in error.

During the question/answer period, a librarian in the audience identified herself as working at the University of Michigan Libraries-- a library system that is cooperating with the Google Books project -- and said that, in her experience, Google is conscientious about correcting errors when they are brought to their attention. She also pointed out that the project is in process and that Google is constantly updating and rescanning unsatisfactory images.

James was also asked what rate of error is, in his view, acceptable. He responded that that depends on the purpose of use. In his opinion the ideal would be less than 0.5 percent.

The ultimate result of James' research seems to be that Google Books does contain a significant number of errors with no known (to James) mechanism for quality control.

-- Stacy Judy

What happens in marriages where one partner prefers print and the other e-books?

2010-11-09T15:22:00.005-10:00

Al Sison

Marital therapist and psychologist

Marriage and family therapists look for areas of function and dysfunction in three categories: Boundaries, Attachments, and Rituals. They then ask three questions: what is the issue, what is the dysfunction, and what is the heart of the matter.

The conflict between couples with one partner favoring ebooks and the other traditional books is one that has become more prevalent in recent years.

Mr. Sison asked a number of his patients about their reasons for preferring ebook or print. Those who prefer print do so for reasons that are either logical or visceral.

Attachment to books

Logical:

Easier to read

Better use of time: a traditional book can just be open anywhere without having to turn on a device.

or Visceral:

Traditional books feel “real”

Traditional books smell “real”

Mr. Sison's patients also gave reasons that the choice between books and ebooks might cause trouble in their relationships:

--Ebook readers look down on their partners for not embracing (or being able to embrace) technology

--Readers of traditional books like to be able to bend, write in, and highlight books.

--Readers of traditional books don't know what their partners are reading, and ebook readers don't want their partners to know.

--Ebook reading damages rituals like reading the newspaper together as a family on Sunday morning.

Mr. Sison sums up by saying that in the battle between ebook and traditional books, no one will win.

-- Stacy Judy

Innovating in a hyper-connected world

2010-11-09T15:22:00.003-10:00

[Previously titled: New Technologies for Hawaii’s Libraries]

Burt Lum, “Bytemarks Café’”, Hawaii Public Radio

10 tenets of innovation

1. Ideas can come from anywhere

2. Build on your creative assets

3. Freedom to brainstorm

Defer judgment, encourage wild ideas, build on ideas of others, respect individual voices, stay focused, be visual, go for quality.

4. Share the ideas, transparent

Don’t try to own an idea – share credit with everyone and put egos aside: the best ideas are those that everyone feels free to build on.

5. License to pursue your passion

6. Innovation is not instant perfection

The idea is the beginning of the processes, ideas must be nurtured and imporoved.

7. Fail often, fail fast

Try, fail, move on. Much of success is a numbers game – be open to failure.

Risk what you can afford.

(ex. Google Wave – never took off, but they gave it a try and then STOPPED trying when it was clear it wouldn’t work.)

8. Innovation aligns to strategy

Remember your goals, and innovate with an eye to fulfilling those goals.

9. Focus on patrons, not the status quo.

10. Don’t kill prospects, morph them. Learn lessons from failures.

10 Examples of innovation

1. Twitter

Twitter can work as a gauge of what people are talking about. Use it to see what people are saying about us – what they think. (ex. @hawaiibookblog)

2. Facebook

Facebook is a good way to bring people together, but if you’re going to have a page, you’ve got to work it. (Examples: Hawaii State Public Library System and Kukui High School) The first of the examples has only two followers – it isn’t being used to its best advantage. The Kukui High School page has over 3000 followers because the owners have developed and promoted the page. [note from author: the HSPLS page at Facebook appears to have been generated from a Wikipedia article and has no visible HSPLS affiliation. I was unable to confirm this in the time available.]

3. Virtual communities

(ex. ning)

4. Ustream (ex. “Mix it up Hawaii”)

5. Community blogs (ex. Hawaii Book Blog )

6. Ebooks

7. Book communities (ex Good Reads , Bookcrossing )

8. Video podcasts

9. Pecha Kucha 20 seconds, 20 slides [note: the speaker did not have time to show a site for this one, I added it.]

10. Visual Thinking

The notes for this presentation are available at http://bytemarks.pbworks.com

For more information on the speaker, see his website Bytemarks.

-- Stacy Judy

The Emotional Design of Libraries

2010-11-08T12:15:00.009-10:00

Michael Lascarides a Digital User Analyst from New York Public Library presented an excellent presentation on how New York Public Library used an emotional usage survey to determine usage in their libraries. Mr. Lascarides, with an e-commerce background, was able to provide his library the ability to perceive the library as a user and not a librarian, which is important in ensuring the library remains an important space in a quickly changing culture.

By studying usage, Lascarides was able to determine that 87% of catalog usage was from off-site, not in the library, thus proving that within the past couple of years mobile usage was increasing due to devices like smart phones and ipads. Thus, libraries need to consider how the can remain relevant and keep up with technology.

He points out that being free won't save your library, studies have shown that people rather pay for a good experience if the free experience isn't good. But if your free experience is good then that is better than a good pay experience.

To determine what patrons want from their New York State Public library he and his staff conducted physical and online surveys of patrons to determine why they use their libraries. Their study focused on the Main Manhattan library and the Mid-Manhattan library (the highest circulating library), which are across from one another. They realized from their studies that emotions are at the core of libraries. The way people perceive their libraries affects their usage. People tend to be drawn to the libraries that appeal to their emotional needs: some are attracted to the seriousnious and grandness of the Main library while others are attracted to the busy, loud, and informalness of the Mid-Manhattan library. They found that librarians should never assume things about users. Many may assume that the loudest patrons are students but studies found that students are drawn to libraries as a place to study while business people are 3x more likely than students to be drawn to loud social spaces. Also they found that business people and tourists are more likely to be high-tech patrons compared to students.

Patrons were asked "If all research content was online would you still use the library?" over 80% said "yes!"

Lascarides ended his presentation with philosophical suggestions:

1. If you want your library to become or remain successful: be an inspirational setting.
2. Be a physical space to go to.
3. Concentrate on experiences that be duplicated elsewhere
4. Push the tension between privacy and social space/experience
5. Become conversent, give and receive. Don't be just a "fortress of knowledge."

-- Lea Domingo

Extreme Makeover - Technical Services Edition

2010-11-08T11:23:00.005-10:00

Only Kathleen Stacey was able to present at HLA, Brian Bays, however, helped her put together their excellent presentation on how Edwin H Mookini Library's Technical Services Department made both a physical and functional makeover.

Kathleen first presented how their section did an "Extreme" physical makeover. Through pictures she showed how the section transitioned from an outdated and poorly functional space into one that pleased most of the staff. Everything began with the usual tasks of boxing up everything and moved into shuffling stage as staff was moved around onto floors and spaces that were not being renovated. Next came the planning stage where bids were made for new furniture and Office Draw was used to design the floor plan of their new space. Staff decided that cubicles should be purchased so they could have a sense of having their own office space. The only mistakes they made in their design was buying too-big cubicles and not providing a bigger common space.

The next phase of the makeover was the functional renovation, which required a workflow analysis. After analyzing the collection process and roles it was discovered that their work flow was ineffecient. They discovered that 80% of materials purchased were serials and e-materials and only 20% regular print materials. But only one staff member was responsible for the serials and e-materials processing while a large portion of the staff was focused on print materials. As a result staff was reorganized into those who decide what to buy and those who do the actual processing. Currently this functional renovation is still a work in progress.

Congratulations and good luck to the Edwin H. Mookini Technical Services Department!

-- Lea Domingo

Dashing Through the Hills

2010-11-08T10:47:00.004-10:00

Gail Fujimoto provided an concise introduction to The Kamehameha Schools (Kapalama Campus) transition to becoming more accessible digitally. With the introduction of 1 to 1 laptops for students and decreased print usage it has become essential that their library increasingly incorporate ebooks into the collection.

Kawika Makamani discussed how the DASH program was the deciding factor that to choose ebrary as their database selection. DASH is a program that allows libraries to upload their own materials (such as Kamehameha Published books) into the ebrary database that their students can access. Dash also allows them to controll access, they can make materials not only available to their students but also the public. The main selling point for ebrary was not their collection of 50,000 ebooks, but the abilty to provide students with out of publication books.

Mr. Makamani also explained some of the powerful tools this services provides such as: being able to navigate by pages, bookmark pages, print up to 60 pages at a time, and the use of "Info Tools" which allows students to take notes and save annotations in a bookshelf that can be created to save files. Dash also allows administrators the power to control access: who can access (students vs. public) and how many can access certain materials at one time.

The audience asked if a software is required to access ebrary and yes you are required to download the ebrary reader onto your computer for you to be able to access the various ebooks.

Mr. Makamani ended his presentation by offering publishers/people to submit their own collections or materials to be made accessible through DASH.

-- Lea Domingo

Closing panel

2010-11-05T15:21:00.000-10:00

Digital Libraries: What are we Losing and Gaining?

Michael Lascarides, New York Public Library

Lunch

2010-11-05T12:25:00.000-10:00

Silent auction

2010-11-05T10:47:00.000-10:00

Exhibits & silent auction

2010-11-05T09:00:00.000-10:00

Get your HLA conference coverage!

2010-11-03T13:51:00.000-10:00

It's almost time for HLA 2010, and whether you'll be at the Royal Hawaiian this Friday or can't make it this year, you can find full conference coverage online

Find session recaps after the conference right here on the HLA Blog.

We're always happy to have more bloggers to contribute, so if you're interested in covering sessions, please contact me directly ASAP.

Find conference photos at the HLA group on Flickr.

And if you're bringing your camera or cameraphone along, please join the group and add your photos to the group pool. Make sure you include the tag hla10 with the tags for your photo. Note: We reserve the right to blog photos in the HLA Flickr group pool.

Tweeps! If you're going to tweet live from the conference, don't forget to add hashtag #hla10. See what folks are saying bout the event live.

Tour Manoa Heritage Center

2010-10-15T17:18:00.002-10:00

Join the Hawaii Library Association Hawaiian Section for a tour of Manoa Heritage Center and Cooke Library

Saturday, Oct. 30

9 - 11:30 a.m.

Adults: $7 adults; Seniors/Military: $4; Children: free

Most of the tour takes place outdoors in the garden of MHC, where we will view native and Polynesian introduced plants and view Kuka`o`o Heiau. Following the garden tour, we will enter the house, Kuali`i, for a special tour of the library with owner Sam Cooke. Participants should be prepared for walking over rough garden paths and bring rain and sun protection. The tour is appropriate for children over 10. Following the tour, we will gather for lunch on your own at Wai‘oli Tea Room. Because there is limited parking at MHC, we will gather at Manoa District Park and carpool.

RSVP by Oct. 27 to Gwen Sinclair, gsinclai [at] hawaii [dot] edu or 956-2549. Please indicate the number of participants and whether you would like to join the group for lunch afterward.

For more information, visit the Manoa Heritage Center Web site

HLA 2010 registration now open

2010-10-05T17:14:00.000-10:00

The 2010 Hawaii Library Association Annual Conference Preliminary Program is now available on HLA Web site. The conference takes place on Friday, Nov. 5, at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. Your conference registration fee includes continental breakfast, lunch buffet, and two refreshment breaks. For those simply attending the conference, parking is complimentary.

Although you can register for the conference now, you have to print the registration form and send it via U.S. Mail along with your check. However, by Oct. 12, you should be able to register online using your credit card or PayPal account. For more information and to register, visit the HLA Conference page.

HLA merchandise available now

2010-09-30T16:58:00.000-10:00

Don't forget to check out the merchandise section of the HLA Web site for great deals on HLA logo gear. Support your local libraries with T-shirts and polo shirts in all sizes, bearing the HLA logo. As a bonus, if you make purchase before this year's HLA Conference on Nov. 5, you'll be entered into a drawing to win a free HLA beach towel.

For more information, including how to order, visit the HLA Web site.

Check out the new Gov Docs

2010-09-09T17:18:00.000-10:00

Reference & User Services site visit:
UH Manoa Government Documents & Map Collection and MAGIS Lab

Wednesday, Sept. 29
5 - 6:30 p.m.
Government Documents & Maps
University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Hamilton Library

Join HLA's Reference & User Services Section for its next site visit, this time to the newly renovated Government Documents & Map Collection on the ground floor of Hamilton Library.

Hosted by Gwen Sinclair, this site visit will allow you to see how reference services are conducted by Gov Docs, followed by light refreshments.

Parking is $5 on campus. Metered parking is also available along Metcalf Street or University Avenue and is free after 6 p.m.

RSVP to Dainan Skeem.

HLA 2010 just around the corner

2010-09-08T16:53:00.000-10:00

Mark your calendars! The 2010 HLA Conference happens Friday, Nov. 5, at the historic Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Waikiki. The one-day conference opens with registration and breakfast starting at 7 a.m. with sessions running from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Featured speakers include Maria Bonn, Associate University Librarian for Publishing at the
University of Michigan, Michael Lascaride, Digital User Analyst for the New York Public Library, and John Gathegi, attorney, author and Director of the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Florida. The full program will be available later this month with registration to begin in October.

Early registration cost for HLA members is $50 and includes continental breakfast, lunch and two snack breaks. Conference attendees may also reserve a room at the Royal Hawaiian for $235. For reservations, call the hotel at 921-4261.

Get involved with HLA!

2010-08-24T17:33:00.001-10:00

Are you looking for an opportunity to become more involved with your professional organization? HLA has a few interesting and fun volunteer positions that need some attention but that don't require a commitment to the board. If interested email HLA at Hawaii.library.association@gmail.com Here are the jobs:

Facebook Editor: Currently there are two contributing editors but HLA is looking for an overall editor that can be more activity involved with our Facebook page.

Scholarships: HLA began a scholarship program to offer two scholarships per year and are looking for an HLA member to spearhead this responsibility.

Merchandise: HLA has t-shirts and polo shirts are sale. A member is needed who can do a bit of marketing and advertising of these few items both at the conference, on the Facebook page and website. Also take the responsibility to and who can storage and maintain an inventory.

Remembering Karen Peacock

2010-08-16T17:37:00.001-10:00

It is with deep regret and sadness that we report the passing of Dr. Karen Peacock.

Karen Peacock was professor emeritus and retired curator of the Pacific Collection, Hamilton Library, University of Hawai'i at Manoa. She passed away peacefully on Aug. 13, 2010, after a 10-month battle with cancer.

Karen's career with the UH Library spanned more than 30 years. She began in the Pacific Collection, where she briefly worked in a temporary position before moving into a tenure-track position with the Social Sciences & Humanities reference department. She returned to the Pacific Collection in 1980 as a Pacific specialist and in 1987 assumed curatorship of the collection upon the retirement of R. Renee Heyum. In addition to her work as curator of the Pacific Collection, she also served as department head for the Hawaiian & Pacific Collections (formerly Special Collections) at Hamilton Library from 2001 until her retirement. Karen became ill late last year and officially retired on Feb. 1 of this year.

Born in Richmond, Ind., Karen spent her childhood years in Micronesia where her father, Daniel J. Peacock, served as the director of library services. After receiving her BA from Earlham College (Richmond, Indiana), she returned to Micronesian, and in Saipan she worked briefly for the Congress of Micronesia, the Adult Education Program, and taught at the Marianas High School.

Karen received her Masters of Library Science in 1973, a MA in Pacific Studies in 1978 and PhD in Pacific History in 1990. She has more than twenty publications to her credit and served at various times on the editorial boards of the Center for Pacific Islands Studies' Pacific monograph series, Contemporary Pacific, Pacific Studies (BYU-Hawai'i), and the Micronesian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities.

Karen was devoted to the Pacific, especially Micronesia. She gave a great deal of her time and energy to supporting the work of Pacific libraries and archives and advising and mentoring many of the islanders with whom she came into contact. In recognition of her efforts, she was honored by the Pacific Islands Association of Libraries and Archives with its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. Other awards bestowed upon her included the Outstanding Alumni Award by the UH School of Library and Information Studies, the UH Library's Nina D.P. Horio Excellence in Librarianship Award, and the Dr. Sarah K. Vann Professional Services Award (UH Library and Information Studies program).

Karen is survied by her life partner, Kim Haines, father Daniel J. Peacock, sister Paula Bertolin (brother-in-law Gordon), brother Daniel L. (sister-in-law Lisa) and nieces Caroline & Beth Bertolin.

Arrangements for a memorial service are still pending at this time.

- Lynette Furuhashi
Stuart Dawrs

Strategic Learning Communities help Pacific librarians

2010-08-16T17:06:00.002-10:00

PREL held a week-long workshop aimed at promoting professional development among librarians in the CNMI last week. Click here to read more about this workshop, sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Former HLA President lands in Golden Eagles' nest

2010-07-14T16:45:00.000-10:00

Doug Bates, former head of Joseph F. Smith Library at Brigham Young University-Hawaii and former HLA president, has taken a new position at Tennessee Tech in Cookeville, Tenn., as Dean of Library and Learning Assistance. Best of luck in your new position, Doug!

RIP Debra Miyashiro

2010-07-14T16:42:00.000-10:00

HLA mourns the passing of Debra Miyashiro, retired librarian at the state Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Debra passed away on July 3 after a brief illness.

Fiji celebrates National Library Week

2010-07-14T16:40:00.002-10:00

NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK 2010
"Communities Thrive @ Libraries" 17th - 24th July 2010

To support this year's NLW celebrations, Fiji Library Association has designed and printed 1000 posters. http://www.fla.org.fj/index_files/Page457.htm

Together with Library Services of Fiji, these posters will be distributed to schools & libraries across Fiji.

For more information please contact: Sokoveti Tuimoala or Merewalesi Vueti @ Library Services of Fiji on 331 5344.

Conference proposal deadline approaching

2010-07-09T17:16:00.000-10:00

Reminder: the proposal deadline to speak at the 2010 HLA Annual Conference deadline is 15 July. If you you would like to present, please complete a proposal at http://assist.hawaii.edu/hla/2010/speakerproposal.php by 15 July.

Although HLA will consider any presentation that is interesting, entertaining, and potentially useful to Hawaii's librarians, programs reflecting the conference theme, "Growing Digital: Issues and Challenges for Libraries," are encouraged. We are particularly interested in examining the challenges and opportunities facing libraries as well as the lessons learned, problems encountered, and solutions proposed to grapple with digital-related issues. Some general ideas for programs include:

Digital technologies
Technical architecture
Building digital collections
Digitization
Metadata
Copyright
Rights management
Preservation
Changing user needs
Evaluation of digital libraries

- Dave Brier, 2010 HLA Annual Conference Chair

Hamilton Library Ground Floor reopens

2010-07-08T16:51:00.000-10:00

Nearly six years after the flood of 2004 devastated the ground floor of Hamilton Library, renovation of the flooded areas of the UH Manoa Library was completed this spring. In late June, the Library's Government Documents & Maps collection, Serials, Acquisitions and Cataloging departments, and the UH LIS program returned to their refurbished homes in the ground floor of Phases I and II. Government Documents & Maps also now are open to the public, and walk-in service is available for the U.S. federal depository collection, the United Nations collection, and Maps, Aerial Photos, and GIS (MAGIS).

A couple of events will celebrate the return to the Ground Floor.

On Sunday, Aug. 22, the UH Manoa Library will host an open house from 2 to 4 p.m. Information on the flood and renovation process will be on exhibit and light refreshments will be served.

On Sunday, Sept. 19, the UH LIS Program will host an open house for all UH LIS alumni to visit the renovated library school. The event, scheduled from 2 to 5 p.m., will include tours of the new facilities and light refreshments. The LIS Alumni Group is also accepting potluck contributions. Attending alums can RSVP for the event on Facebook.

New Medical Libraries in Majuro and Kosrae

2010-06-10T16:59:00.003-10:00

Please join Alice Hadley and me in welcoming Isaac Watak, the new Medical Librarian at the new Majuro Hospital Medical Library in the Marshall Islands. The library will formally open on Friday, June 4 and is the sixth medical library to be established in the U.S. affiliated Pacific Islands with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Then, next week, Alice and I will be in Kosrae to establish the new Kosrae State Medical Library with Kenye Edmond as their Medical Librarian. These libraries could not have been established without the generous funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant and the strong support from both Ministries of Health, the Pacific Island Health Officers Association (PIHOA) and the Ayuda Foundation in Guam.

-- Arlene Cohen

HLA on Facebook!

2010-05-10T17:11:00.000-10:00

And if you're on Facebook, check us out and become a fan of the Hawaii Library Association! Get updates and connect with other local librarians online.

Already a fan of HLA? Point your friends to our new easy short URL: http://www.facebook.com/hilib.

Spring Meeting Agenda available

2010-05-10T17:07:00.000-10:00

If you missed the HLA Spring Meeting, Saturday, April 24, you can check out the Spring Meeting Agenda online at the HLA Web site.

And if you were at the meeting and have photos from the event, don't forget to add them to the HLA Flickr Group!

Free Hawaii Museums Association workshop

2010-05-07T16:30:00.005-10:00

You are invited to sign up for a free workshop, funded by the Institute for Library and Museum Services (IMLS) awarded to the Hawaii Museums Association, on care of heritage collections in our diverse institutions.

Building a Culture — Collections Care in Hawai`i, a workshop
Care for irreplaceable cultural heritage collections statewide

What: This interactive presentation will identify preservation needs faced by cultural heritage collections in museums, arboretums, archives and libraries in Hawaii, and examine common issues.

Who: Lynn Davis, UH Manoa Preservation Librarian, and Barclay Ogden, University of California Berkeley, will conduct the workshop.

When: Saturday, May 22, 2010, from 9:00 – 1:30 pm.

Where: Bishop Museum, Paki Hall Rooms I & II

Who should attend: Librarians, Archivists - people responsible for caring for cultural heritage collections

Free: Please register today by filling out the form below.

Deadline: Mail by Thursday, May 14, 2010

Mail to:
Hawaii Museums Association
May 22 Workshop
P.O. Box 4125
Honolulu, HI 96812-4125

Supported by a grant from the Institute for Library and Museum Services (IMLS) awarded to the Hawai`i Museums Association (HMA)

A survey will be conducted this summer and a report of the findings will be made at a second workshop in January 2011.

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Building a Culture — Collections Care in Hawai`i
Registration Form

Name ________________________________________________________

Title ________________________________________________________

Institution ____________________________________________________

Address _____________________________________________________

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Telephone _____________________ Fax ____________________

E-mail _______________________________________________________

HLA Professional Development Survey

2010-04-26T16:00:00.000-10:00

The Hawaii Library Association is conducting a professional development survey to help select and plan training for Hawaii's librarians to ensure our continued professionalism. Please take a few minutes to answer the 8-question survey and let us know your thoughts and opinions on what you consider your professional development needs.

The survey is available until May 22, 2010.

Click here to participate in the HLA professional development survey.

Serials Cataloging Workshop

2010-04-21T17:09:00.000-10:00

Eugene Dickerson

The Technical Services Section of HLA sponsored the SCCTP Basic Serials Cataloging Workshop, conducted by Eugene Dickerson, lead librarian for cataloging, U.S. Department of State, Ralph J. Bunche Library. The one-day workshop was held on March 17 in a marvelous technology classroom at the Joseph F. Smith Library at Brigham Young University-Hawaii. Fifteen individuals, including librarians from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, William S. Richardson School of Law Library, BYUH, Hawai‘i State Archives, Chaminade University, Hawaii Pacific University, Pacific Rim Bible College and the Library and Information Science Program at UH attended. Mahalo to Keiko Okuhara of the Law School for arranging the workshop and to Kimball Boone of BYUH for his assistance in securing the location and facilitating printing of the workshop materials.

Minister launches Bougainville library project

2010-04-01T16:36:00.001-10:00

Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Chris Finlayson launched the Bougainville library project and Web site on Tuesday, March 30, at a function in Wellington.

The Bougainville Library Trust was established by writer Lloyd Jones, author of Mister Pip, a novel set on the island of Bougainville during the crisis in the 1990s.

In 2007, Mister Pip gained international acclaim winning the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book Award and being short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. It also drew international attention to the ten year long crisis in Bougainville.

In the late 1990s the New Zealand government initiated peace talks. The introduction of peacekeepers brought an end to the hostilities on Bougainville.

"Building a library and cultural centre is an important part of the island's future. A new library will address a younger generation and do much to rebuild the community's cultural capital and confidence," said Lloyd Jones.

The Trust is working with Volunteer Service Abroad and the Bougainville Heritage Foundation, which is based in Arawa (Bougainville's capital), to build and stock a library and cultural centre.

A casualty of the Bougainville crisis was the loss of meeting places and books. A community library will provide a home for both. It will be a place to tell stories and read the stories of others.

In New Zealand the Trust is currently fundraising for the Bougainville library. Donations can be made and further information about the library project can be found on the Bougainville library Web site.

Already a number of Australian and New Zealand publishers have donated $30,000 worth of books for the library.

HLA Spring Meeting registration now open

2010-03-18T16:13:00.000-10:00

You can now register for the 2010 HLA Spring Meeting, which happens Saturday, April 24, at Bishop Museum. The dinner meeting features special guest speaker Mark Platte, editor of the Honolulu Advertiser. For more information and to register, download the spring meeting registration form.

Deadline to register is April 15.

UHM LIS Alumni Group Dinner

2010-03-18T16:12:00.001-10:00

The UHM LIS Alumni Group will be hosting its occasional alumni dinner Friday, April 9, starting at 5:30 p.m. at the Kapi`olani Community College Tamarind Room. Dinner will be preceded by a wine tasting with Sky Cameron of Chambers & Chambers Wine Merchants.

Cost is $40 per person and the event is limited to 50 people. For more information, including a full menu, and to RSVP, download the registration form.

Update: Archives tour now full

2010-03-17T17:14:00.000-10:00

The Reference & User Services event at the Hawaii State Archives is now full. If you didn't get a chance to get in on this tour, keep your eye open for more great HLA-sponsored events in the future!

Reference & User Services at Hawaii State Archives

2010-03-10T16:51:00.003-10:00

Wednesday, April 7
9 - 10 a.m.
Hawaii State Archives
364 S. King St.

Come join HLA's Reference & User Services Section as we explore procedures and policies of reference at the Hawaii State Archives in Downtown Honolulu.

We'll look at some of the common reference questions the Archives receives and some of the tools they use to facilitate answering them.

User Services include Card Catalog Indexes and their migration online, Finding Aids and an attempt to get them converted to EAD, and online services that are being added to almost daily.

Space is limited so RSVP now! Email Dainan Skeem to reserve a seat.

Pohnpei Public Library Day

2010-03-10T16:50:00.002-10:00

The Pohnpei Public Library is celebrating its 23rd anniversary this year. The Library has designated Friday, April 16, as its library day for 2010. The ceremony will begin at 6:30 p.m. at Pohnpei Public Library and this year's theme is "Let us not westernize our culture but modernize it."

Prizes for best art and essay contest will be awarded. In addition, there will be short speeches, entertainment and light refreshment.

Library Advocacy

2010-02-24T17:13:00.001-10:00

Recently you have seen some e-mails from HLA about advocating for certain legislation. That is all part of HLA's responsibility to our membership in support of librarians and libraries. We have a great new brochure that helps spread the word about the importance of all types of libraries. Check it out and please print a copy to share with anyone you think could benefit.

Speaking about advocacy, what better way to show your support than to participate in ALA's Library Advocacy Day on Tuesday, June 29, at 11 a.m. in Washington, D.C. on the U.S. Capitol grounds. If you are going to ALA this year, please consider participating. It is a free event but you do need to register. If you want to be styling, get an HLA t-shirt or polo shirt to wear on the Hill.

HLA welcomes new Board member

2010-02-23T17:37:00.000-10:00

Andrew Wertheimer is the new ALA Councilor as of February 15, 2010. Linda Golian-Lui is stepping down after many years of service to HLA. We thank Linda for her dedication to our organization and feel confident that we will continue to see her as an active member for years to come.

Mark Your Calendars: HLA Spring Meeting set for April 24

2010-02-22T17:14:00.003-10:00

The HLA Spring Meeting is coming April 24, 2010. It will be at the Bishop Museum, an evening of dinner and socializing. Our speaker will be Mark Platte, Editor of the Honolulu Advertiser. Watch for details on registration coming soon.

Date: Saturday, April 24, evening
Venue: Bishop Museum - Atherton Hall
Pricing: HLA/HASL Members - $25; all non-HLA/HASL members - $35
Speaker: Mark Platte, Editor, Honolulu Advertiser

Tentative Schedule

9 a.m. - 5 p.m.: Museum open to all registered Spring Meeting attendees.

11:30 a.m. - Noon: Tour of Library/Archives (Price to be determined and paid by attendees)

4 - 5 p.m.: Docent tour of Hawaii Hall ($3-to be paid by attendees)

5 - 5:30 p.m.: Registration at Atherton Hall/Socializing

5:30 - 6:30 p.m.: Dinner

6:30 - 6:45 p.m.: HLA meeting

6:45 - 7 p.m.: Break/Clean up caterers

7 - 8 p.m.: Speaker Mark Platte

8 - 8:30 p.m.: Clean up room

About the Speaker

Mark Platte is the editor and senior vice president of The Honolulu Advertiser, a job he has held the past four years. As editor, Mark is in charge of all aspects of news coverage and the editorial page. He oversees more than 130 employees of the state's largest newspaper.

He started his career in 1982 as a staff writer on the city and features desks at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He joined The Miami Herald's Broward County Edition as a staff writer specializing in transportation in 1984. In 1988, he was hired at the Orange County Register also to cover transportation. He joined the Los Angeles Times in 1990 and held several reporting positions. He was named assistant city editor of the Times' Orange County Edition in 1996 and deputy city editor in 1998. Mark joined The Advertiser in 2000 as assistant managing editor, where he has directed much of the newspaper's enterprise and investigative reporting. He was named managing editor in 2004 and is a member of the newspaper's operating
committee.

Mark has been an instructor at several schools, including the University of Hawaii, Cal State Fullerton and Rancho Santiago College. He is a 2005 graduate of the Gannett Newspaper Division News Department's Management Development Program and a 1999 graduate of the Times-Mirror Leadership Institute for Managers.

He is a 1982 journalism graduate of the University of South Carolina, where he was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper.

PIALA Newsletter

2010-02-19T17:10:00.000-10:00

You can also check out the PIALA Newsletter online. The January 2010 issue is now available on its Web site.

HLA Training: Dreamweaver Workshop

2010-01-19T17:23:00.000-10:00

HLA members are invited to participate in an upcoming training workshop conducted by Brian Richardson, HLA member and WCC faculty. He will be offering limited seating in an upcoming Dreamweaver workshop at WCC. This workshop is scheduled for: Monday and Wednesdays, February 8th, 10th, 15th, 17th
Hale A'o 102, Windward Community College, 4:30 to 7:00pm

This 10-hour workshop will start with the very basics of web design and move to more complex tools and features. Students will be shown how to set up Dreamweaver, how to create a website, and include various basic web elements.

Recommended preparation: familiarity with computers, file management, internet browsing.

Click here for more information

Reservations are required. Contact Brian Richardson to reserve a spot.

HLA Executive Board Position Open: ALA Councilor

2010-01-19T17:22:00.000-10:00

Hawaii Library Association is searching for an interested HLA member to fill the position of ALA councilor. Click here for a full description of the position.

This is a brief summary of the position:

Member of the HLA executive board-attendance at the monthly board meetings.
This is a four-year board position.
Attendance at the ALA annual conference (stipend is provided)
Attendance at the ALA mid-winter conference is preferred but not required (stipend is provided).
Acts as the official liaison between ALA and HLA.

If you are interested in the position or have questions, please contact the HLA. Please reply by Feb 8, 2010.

Serials Cataloging Workshop scheduled

2010-01-14T16:32:00.000-10:00

HLA's Technical Services Section is hosting an SCCTP Basic Serials Cataloging Workshop, Wednesday, March 17, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., at the BYUH Library. Eugene Dickerson, lead librarian for cataloging for the U.S. Department of State library will lead the all-day workshop.

To attend, RSVP to Keiko Okuhara by Monday, Jan. 18. Let her know if you need a ride to BYUH or would be willing to provide a ride for others.

There is no cost to attend the workshop. Lunch on your own.

House honors Ruth L. Tighe

2010-01-14T16:18:00.000-10:00

Librarian Ruth L. Tighe of the Northern Marianas Islands was honored in a resolution adopted by the House of Representatives Jan. 5. Read more here