2022 HLA Spring Meeting

Saturday, June 4, 2022 from 10am-2pm
Platform: Zoom
​Cost: FREE.
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Schedule:

• 10:05-10:50am
  Panel Discussion about HLA and the Centennial Committee
  Panelists: Andrew Wertheimer, Gwen Sinclair
• 11am-12pm
  Keynote Presentation about the Future of Hawaiian Librarianship
  Featuring: Kawena Komeiji and Keahiahi Long
• 12:45-1:30pm
  Panel Discussion about the Future of Libraries
  Panelists: Clem Guthro, Danielle Fujii, Stacey Aldrich
• 1:30-2pm
  ​Business Meeting
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About the Keynote Presentation

Ke Kumu Wai: Sources of Knowledge

Wai, or water, is the source of life. And we know that waiwai is a purposeful duplication of wai, signifying a healthy, thriving, flourishing state. Together these words help us envision a future for Hawaiʻi and how our practice can support and heal our communities of the past, present, and future. In our talk, we present a (k)new model for the practice of librarianship that forefronts the kuanaʻike Hawaiʻi and our relationship to wai and ʻāina. The result is a description of Hawaiian librarianship, grounded in Hawaiian values and practices with the goal of best serving Hawaiian communities. Hoʻoulu lāhui: a healthy nation is a knowledgeable one.

Keynote Speakers

Kawena Komeiji

Hawaiian Pacific Resources Librarian
James & Abigail Campbell Library

Kawena Komeiji is from Nuʻuanu, Kona, Oʻahu with roots in the Waialua and Koʻolauloa moku. She currently resides and works in Honouliuli, ʻEwa, Oʻahu at the University of Hawaiʻi - West Oʻahu as the Hawaiʻi-Pacific Resources Librarian. The best part of her job is creating relationships and connecting the community to all forms of knowledge. Kawena has a Bachelor’s Degree in Hawaiian Studies from Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge and a Master’s Degree from School of Library and Information Science at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Keahiahi Long

Librarian at Kamakūokalani
Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge

Keahiahi Long lives in Maunalua, Oʻahu, is a mea hula, and is the Librarian at Kamakakūokalani. Her primary duties are to support the creation of, access to, and use of materials related to ʻike Hawaiʻi, and to manage the Laka me Lono Resource Center collection so it best aligns with the curriculum of Kamakakūokalani. Keahiahi holds a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science and Bachelor’s Degrees in Hawaiian Language and Hawaiian Studies from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

About the Panelists

Andrew Wertheimer

Dr. Andrew B. Wertheimer has taught at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Library and Information Science Program since 2003. One of his research and teaching areas focuses on the history of libraries. He served the HLA for a decade as our ALA councilor. An active library historian, he was Chair of ALA's Library History Round Table (LHRT) and served on the editorial boards of Library Quarterly, Library History, and Libraries: Culture, History, and Society

Gwen Sinclair

Gwen Sinclair is a librarian in the Government Documents & Maps Department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library. She is also an adjunct instructor in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library and Information Science Program. Her publications and research interests include government secrecy, presidential executive orders and proclamations, military history of Hawaiʻi, and private legislation. She is the author of the open textbook Government Information: A Reference for Librarians in Hawaiʻi. 

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Clem Guthro

Dr. Clem Guthro is the University Librarian at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa where he provides strategic direction and oversees operations for the University Library (44 librarians, 61 support staff, $16 million budget). Clem also currently serves as the Interim Director and Publisher of the University of Hawai’i Press.

Areas of interest are libraries as agents of discovery, learning, collaboration, and scholarly breakthroughs; digital libraries and their effect on scholarship; the role of library in student success; library as intellectual convener and cultural space; library architecture; international librarianship, and the long-term stewardship of print collections.

Danielle Fujii

Danielle Fujii is the librarian at Kalaheo High School in Kailua, Oʻahu. In her 9 years at Kalaheo, in addition to being the school librarian, she has had a number of additional roles including Senior Project Coordinator, ACT Aspire Test Coordinator, and is currently the Technology Committee lead. Danielle has just ended her 2-year term as Co-President of the Hawaiʻi Association of School Librarians (HASL) and is the newly elected VP of Programing. As a Future Ready Librarian, she is committed to preparing her students to be ready to be college and career ready.

Stacey Aldrich

Stacey Aldrich has 30 years of library experience, and is currently the State Librarian of Hawaiʻi. Prior to Hawaiʻi, she served as the Deputy Secretary for the Office of Commonwealth Libraries in Pennsylvania and State Librarian of California. Stacey has also worked in public and academic libraries. In between, she took a detour to work as a Senior Associate at the futuring think tank of Coates & Jarratt, Inc., where she began to sharpen her futurist thinking skills. Always curious and always learning, she believes we all should have a little futurist in us so that we can create our preferred futures.