{"id":7604,"date":"2022-11-20T08:09:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T18:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/?p=7604"},"modified":"2025-07-20T14:43:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:43:01","slug":"alumnus-jason-ford-to-run-the-kikuchi-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/alumnus-jason-ford-to-run-the-kikuchi-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus Jason Ford to Run the Kikuchi Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent graduate Jason Ford (2021) was just hired as the founding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/11\/01\/kauai-cc-archaeologist-kikuchi-work-public\/\">Kikuchi Archivist<\/a> at Kaua&#8217;i Community College\u2019s (KCC) Kikuchi Center. The Kikuchi collection is a multimedia collection of items either created or collected by Dr. William \u201cPila\u201d Kikuchi, who taught archaeology and anthropology at KCC.<\/p>\n<p>The collection contains Native Hawaiian archaeology items from Dr. Kikuchi\u2019s research across the island chain. Items include artifacts and other ecofacts that demonstrate cultural significance, along with Dr. Kikuchi\u2019s original documentation of the projects. As the founding Kikuchi Archivist, Jason hopes to acquire other significant archaeology collections from Kaua&#8217;i and Hawai&#8217;i. To make this possible, he will be designing a new facility that includes archival storage, a work space, and a public reading room with a reference section. He will be busy as the Kikuchi collection is entirely unprocessed.<\/p>\n<p>Ford\u2019s undergraduate studies were centered around ethnobiology, Indigenous research methodologies, and Hawaiian language. After two years working in archaeology as a cultural researcher and Hawaiian language translator at Cultural Surveys Hawaii, he entered the LIS Program. Now, he \u201cbasically gets the best of both the archival and library worlds.\u201d Ford advises new students to \u201cbe open minded about the ways LIS skills are applied in different sectors to enhance your foundations, experience, and the unique opportunities available to you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent graduate Jason Ford (2021) was just hired as the founding Kikuchi Archivist at Kaua&#8217;i Community College\u2019s (KCC) Kikuchi Center. The Kikuchi collection is a multimedia collection of items either created or collected by Dr. William \u201cPila\u201d Kikuchi, who taught archaeology and anthropology at KCC. The collection contains Native Hawaiian archaeology items from Dr. Kikuchi\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7608,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604\/revisions\/7608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}