  {"id":27549,"date":"2014-09-16T13:52:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T23:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=27549"},"modified":"2021-10-26T12:07:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T22:07:45","slug":"uh-manoa-graduate-named-school-librarian-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/09\/16\/uh-manoa-graduate-named-school-librarian-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa graduate named School Librarian of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/colte-m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/colte-m.jpg\" alt=\"Michelle Colte\" width=\"300\" height=\"374\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/colte-m.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/colte-m-208x260.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Michelle Colte<\/strong>, a librarian at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halekula.k12.hi.us\/pages\/Hale_Kula_Elementary_School\">Hale Kula Elementary<\/a>, has been named the 2014 School Librarian of the Year by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slj.com\/\"><em>School Library Journal<\/em><\/a>. She graduated in 2004 with her master&#8217;s degree in library and information science from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/\">Library and Information Science (<abbr>LIS<\/abbr>) Program<\/a> at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa.<\/p>\n<p>This prestigious award honors K&#8211;12 school library professionals for outstanding achievement and exemplary use of 21st century tools and services. She was selected over 90 other nominees across the nation. Colte received a $2,500 cash award and another $2,500 worth of materials from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scholastic.com\/aboutscholastic\/librarypublishing.htm\">Scholastic Library Publishing<\/a>, the award&#8217;s sponsor. A panel of school librarians, journal editors and industry professionals from Scholastic publishing and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iste.org\/\">International Society for Technology in Education<\/a> judged the award nominations.<\/p>\n<p>Colte is featured in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slj.com\/2014\/09\/librarians\/meet-michelle-colte-sljs-school-librarian-of-the-year\/\">cover story<\/a> in the September 2014 issue of <em>School Library Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Among <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>&#8217;s school librarians, Colte is widely acknowledged as a technology innovator. Last year, she was one of 50 educators worldwide selected to participate in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/edu\/programs\/google-teacher-academy\/\">Google Teacher Academy<\/a> held in Sydney, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Said <abbr>LIS<\/abbr> Professor Emerita <strong>Violet Harada<\/strong>, &ldquo;Michelle is a visionary leader among <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>&#8217;s school librarians. Her creativity and drive have inspired innovative practices. She embraces a strong commitment to her school community of students, faculty and parents; and she engages everyone in actualizing a shared dream to prepare digital citizens, who are confident, resourceful and caring human beings.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa library and information science graduate Michelle Colte named 2014 School Librarian of the Year by School Library Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[90,303,9],"class_list":["post-27549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-alumni","tag-library-and-information-science","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27549"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150541,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27549\/revisions\/150541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}