{"id":94,"date":"2016-07-15T02:03:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T02:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawaii.edu\/lis\/?page_id=94"},"modified":"2025-11-02T07:25:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T17:25:26","slug":"mission","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/about-us\/mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission, Vision and Values"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Unanimously reapproved by LIS faculty 22 August 2025.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of our regular reassessment, our LIS mission, vision and values statements reflect multiple sources of community feedback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mission<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We educate leaders in the information professions. Through research, teaching and service, we contribute to knowledge, solve problems and prepare individuals to thrive in diverse information environments, with an emphasis on Hawai\u02bbi and the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vision<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Our \u02bbohana will be compassionate leaders in a world where information connects, supports and respects diverse populations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Values<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Our values guide our activities, priorities and interactions, and reflect those of the State of Hawai\u02bbi and University of Hawai\u02bbi. We honor and strive to continuously deepen our understanding and practice of the Native Hawaiian values embedded in the concepts of aloha, \u02bbohana<\/i> and kuleana<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Aloha<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Fostering connections of regard and caring<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Aloha is how we live. Aloha is the essence of relationships in which each person is important to every other person for collective existence.  Some of the ways we act on this value are by creating a cooperative, supportive environment with individual advising, and emphasizing relationship building, connections between people and place, diverse knowledge systems, through group work and professional service.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u02bbOhana<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Family and chosen family<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u02bbOhana is who we are. We are a diverse community dedicated to connecting people with information, and we respect the right of all views to be represented. We encourage diversity in our curriculum through core, elective and special topics courses, degree specializations, dual and concurrent degree programs, and coursework outside LIS to support individualized programs of study. We are active members of a range of research, professional and local communities, and we are responsive to their needs. We undertake research projects and coursework that engage the local community, and we stay connected with our \u02bbohana through collaboration, outreach, internships and practicums, alumni and professional organizations and regular communications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kuleana<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Responsibility and accountability<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Kuleana is what we do. We embrace our responsibility to educate the next generation of compassionate leaders in the information professions, who will discover, embrace and practice their own kuleana to preserve and perpetuate access to diverse cultural materials and ideas, and inspire others to embrace libraries, archives, information services and lifelong learning. Resources are precious, and we are responsible to make sure ours are directed to where they can do the most good. We offer a continuously evolving curriculum, implement the results of assessment into the program, encourage advocacy and outreach, conduct and publish research, and hold our students and ourselves to the highest professional standards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Program Goals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  • Nurture a professional LIS community where Native Hawaiian concepts and values support well-being and knowledge building among all members.<\/i><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Faculty, students and staff collaborate to enhance the overall student experience by evolving a program that prepares students to thrive in the present and future workplace.<\/i><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Broaden outreach and increase community engagement and advocacy in addressing community information needs and challenges.<\/i><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Undertake, document and share research and creative activities with social impact.<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Unanimously reapproved by LIS faculty 22 August 2025. As part of our regular reassessment, our LIS mission, vision and values statements reflect multiple sources of community feedback. Mission We educate leaders in the information professions. Through research, teaching and service, we contribute to knowledge, solve problems and prepare individuals to thrive in diverse information environments, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-94","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9264,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94\/revisions\/9264"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}