{"id":5609,"date":"2018-01-29T11:27:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T21:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/?p=5609"},"modified":"2025-07-05T20:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T06:54:06","slug":"reaching-those-who-served","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/reaching-those-who-served\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaching Those Who Served"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Â鶹´«Ã½M\u0101noa LIS Program is one of three Library &amp; Information Science graduate programs participating in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reachingthosewhoserved.org\/\">Reaching Those Who Served<\/a> research project.<\/p>\n<p>Reaching Those Who Served is a 3-year Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant-funded research project recruitment of military veterans to library and information science graduate programs.<\/p>\n<p>The grant enables the project to provide scholarships for 12 (total) military veterans to pursue a master\u2019s in library and information science at one of three universities.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of this 3-year project, we will:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>collect data on strategies to draw military veterans into library and information science (LIS) master&#8217;s degree programs<\/li>\n<li>apply and test these strategies through recruiting, admitting, and providing financial and social support for 12 military veterans to make substantial progress toward completing a master&#8217;s degree at one of 3 American Library Association (ALA) accredited programs.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>With their strong service orientation, motivation to serve others, interest in change and life-long learning, flexibility, and adaptability, military veterans have the qualities to be excellent prospective students for graduate library and information science (LIS) programs.<\/p>\n<p>Those veterans interested in learning more about this project at Â鶹´«Ã½M\u0101noa should contact Dr. Rich Gazan (gazan@hawaii.edu) directly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/RtwS-flyer.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5610\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/adobe-pd-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"47\" height=\"49\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFor more info, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reachingthosewhoserved.org\/\">Reaching Those Who Served<\/a> website or download the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/RtwS-flyer.pdf\">PDF flyer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Â鶹´«Ã½M\u0101noa LIS Program is one of three Library &amp; Information Science graduate programs participating in the Reaching Those Who Served research project. Reaching Those Who Served is a 3-year Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant-funded research project recruitment of military veterans to library and information science graduate programs. The grant enables [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-newsroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=5609"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5615,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609\/revisions\/5615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}