{"id":78926,"date":"2018-05-01T13:44:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T23:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=78926"},"modified":"2019-03-21T17:05:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T03:05:57","slug":"lis-receives-bush-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/05\/01\/lis-receives-bush-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Library science program receives prestigious grant award"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Vanessa Irvin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Library and Information Science Program<\/a> at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa has been awarded the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The grant award<\/a> will fund a 3-year professional development program involving collaborative projects with LIS<\/abbr> (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 Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> State Public Library System. The project is called Hui ʻEkolu<\/span><\/a>: Bridging Educational, Cultural, and Technical Exchange among Native and Public Libraries in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>. <\/p>\n

Vanessa Irvin<\/strong>, LIS<\/abbr> assistant professor, is project director for Hui ʻEkolu<\/span>. 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<\/h2>\n

The funding will allow the hui ʻekolu<\/span> (“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 ʻEkolu<\/span> seeks to create a model for public librarian professional practice that positively situates native\/indigenous knowledge as a framework for synthesizing LIS<\/abbr> technical skills,” explained Irvin. “With this grant, Hui ʻEkolu<\/span> 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 Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> that can also be implemented in public library systems everywhere, particularly within native and indigenous communities.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The grant award will fund a 3-year professional development program involving collaborative projects with Â鶹´«Ã½M\u0101noa LIS, the Native Hawaiian Library of ALU LIKE, Inc., and professional public librarians of the Hawai\u02bbi State Public Library System. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[308,484,207,303,911,9],"class_list":["post-78926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-college-of-natural-sciences","tag-information-and-computer-science","tag-library","tag-library-and-information-science","tag-program-recognition","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\/78926","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=78926"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78964,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78926\/revisions\/78964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}