{"id":5750,"date":"2018-05-02T17:13:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T03:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/?p=5750"},"modified":"2025-07-05T20:53:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T06:53:45","slug":"dr-irvins-imls-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/dr-irvins-imls-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Irvin’s IMLS Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Library and Information Science Program at the University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa has been awarded a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The $249,330\u00a0grant award<\/a> will fund a 3-year professional development program involving collaborative projects with LIS (part of the Department of Information and Computer Sciences<\/a> within the College of Natural Sciences<\/a>), the Native Hawaiian Library of ALU LIKE, Inc., and professional public librarians of the Hawai\u02bbi State Public Library System. The project is called Hui \u02bbEkolu<\/a>: Bridging Educational, Cultural, and Technical Exchange among Native and Public Libraries in Hawai\u02bbi.<\/p>\n

Vanessa Irvin, LIS assistant professor, is project director for Hui \u02bbEkolu. She said the award is a significant accomplishment within the field of library and information science.<\/p>\n

Creating a model to engage local communities with indigenous populations<\/h3>\n

The funding will allow the hui \u02bbekolu (“three groups”) to collaborate to bring together pre-professionals, para-professionals and professionals in the library field. Thirteen teams will be formed (each with one pre-professional, para-professional and professional) to address and complete projects identified at various library sites. The cohorts will create opportunities for cross-learning between the participants while they work as a team to identify opportunities and create projects that benefit the local community at their assigned sites.<\/p>\n

The project will not only benefit its participants and local community, but will create a model for how cross-learning, particularly in areas with large indigenous populations, can be achieved and result in programming that is more responsive and engaged with the local community.<\/p>\n

“Hui \u02bbEkolu seeks to create a model for public librarian professional practice that positively situates native\/indigenous knowledge as a framework for synthesizing LIS technical skills,” explained Irvin. “With this grant, Hui \u02bbEkolu will be able to create a professional development model for cross-learning, mentoring and professional development toward culturally competent and meaningful public library services in Hawai\u02bbi that can also be implemented in public library systems everywhere, particularly within native and indigenous communities.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Library and Information Science Program at the University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa has been awarded a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The $249,330\u00a0grant award will fund a 3-year professional development program involving collaborative projects with LIS (part of the Department of Information and Computer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,28,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-faculty","category-newsroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750","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=5750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5751,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions\/5751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}