Our very own Dr. Noriko Asato and Dr. Andrew Wertheimer made the front page of Hawaiʻ’Civil Beat today t.
The library excluded Japanese readers at a time when Japanese people in Hawaii exceeded 40% of the population, according to research by Andrew Wertheimer and Noriko Asato, professors in the Library & Information Science Program at the University of Hawaii.
While local Japanese were allowed to become library members, the researchers found that the library rejected requests to serve them.
“Now we say intellectual freedom is part of the professional ethics of librarianship, but at that time in Hawaii, it certainly wasn’t,” Wertheimer said.
To read more: https://www.civilbeat.org/2019/10/new-research-shows-how-honolulus-japanese-spurned-by-the-library-made-their-own-bookstore-culture/
