{"id":587,"date":"2023-05-31T09:41:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T19:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/kawaihapai\/?p=587"},"modified":"2023-05-31T09:51:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T19:51:05","slug":"aloha-mai-e-kyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/kawaihapai\/aloha-mai-e-kyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Our New Project Assistant, Kyle Hart!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We are very excited to welcome Kyle Hart to our Ka Wai H\u0101pai Project Team! Kyle is joining our team as a Research Assistant to help formulate our remaining activities and project documentation before we wrap up on July 31, 2023. In my role as Librarian for the Kamakak\u016bokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, I have known Kyle for several years as he progressed through his undergraduate and graduate studies. Kyle’s background in l\u0101hui-centered research and his general thoughtful approach to research and community engagement will be great supports to our project. We’re all looking forward to working with him! To learn more about Kyle, check out our brief interview below!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

KL: Aloha e Kyle! Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

KBH: Aloha n\u014d! I am a Hawai\u02bbi transplant from Turtle Island who was born on ancestral Yokuts and Chumash land. I\u2019ve received an AA from Honolulu Community College and my BA and MA from Â鶹´«Ã½M\u0101noa, all in Hawaiian Studies. Although my family\u2019s connection to the natural world and any specific place was forgotten many generations ago, here in Hawai\u02bbi, I\u2019m working alongside my Kama\u02bb\u0101ina peers who have given me a community and a place to call home, to forge Kanaka futurities while building my own connections to \u02bb\u0101ina as a hoa \u02bb\u0101ina. My journey as a Hawaiian Studies practitioner has been the most fulfilling thing that I\u2019ve ever experienced, and I count myself fortunate to be sustained both physically and spiritually by Hawai\u02bbi nei <3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KL: Welcome to Ka Wai H\u0101pai! You’ve officially been on the project now for 2 weeks. In that short amount of time, you’ve done a lot! Consultation meeting, in-person team meeting, project website editing, all the onboarding, etc. What has it been like for you to join the project, especially considering we’ve only got 9 weeks left until the project ends?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

KBH: You know, there was definitely a lot to catch up on and learn in a relatively short amount of time, however, the entire team has been so gracious and welcoming. What I\u2019ve really appreciated is how nobody expected me to understand 100% of what was going on in the first couple weeks (I dare say this would have been impossible). Everyone\u2019s patience took so much of the pressure off, which really helped to create an optimal learning environment for someone new coming in, even at the tail-end of the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KL: What are your first impressions of this work to create a Hawaiian knowledge organization system, bi-lingual authority records, and \u02bb\u014dlelo Hawai\u02bbi controlled vocabularies?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

KBH: If you had asked me a month ago what system is used to organize books in Hamilton Library (or any university library), I would have said Dewey decimal system. I had such a rudimentary knowledge-base of library sciences, and it\u2019s just not something you encounter a lot out in the wild unless you seek it out. This is a problem, I now realize. I never thought about library organization as human knowledge organization. In the few short weeks that I\u2019ve been a part of this project, I\u2019ve come to realize that library scientists are responsible for mapping how we, as humans, conceptualize the world around us; and if that knowledge system is organized according to foreign thought processes, as is the case here in Hawai\u02bbi, then we exist in a place where still-extant epistemes are relegated to labelings such as \u201cMythology\u201d and \u201cFolklore.\u201d Knowledge colonization is an especially sinister form of colonization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KL: Looking ahead, what would you say you’re most excited about in the weeks to come?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

KBH: Hands down, I\u2019m most excited about some of these names that I see on the guest list for the upcoming roundtable, Aia I Laila Ka Wai A K\u0101ne<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. There are so many minds that I\u02bbve admired from afar as a Hawaiian Studies student, and to know that I will be in a room with them, listening to their \u02bbike, is amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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