You are invited to sign up for a free workshop, funded by the Institute for Library and Museum Services (IMLS) awarded to the Hawaii Museums Association, on care of heritage collections in our diverse institutions.
Building a Culture — Collections Care in Hawai`i, a workshop Care for irreplaceable cultural heritage collections statewide What: This interactive presentation will identify preservation needs faced by cultural heritage collections in museums, arboretums, archives and libraries in Hawaii, and examine common issues. Who: Lynn Davis, UH Manoa Preservation Librarian, and Barclay Ogden, University of California Berkeley, will conduct the workshop. When: Saturday, May 22, 2010, from 9:00 – 1:30 pm. Where: Bishop Museum, Paki Hall Rooms I & II Who should attend: Librarians, Archivists - people responsible for caring for cultural heritage collections Free: Please register today by filling out the form below. Deadline: Mail by Thursday, May 14, 2010 Mail to: Hawaii Museums Association May 22 Workshop P.O. Box 4125 Honolulu, HI 96812-4125 Supported by a grant from the Institute for Library and Museum Services (IMLS) awarded to the Hawai`i Museums Association (HMA) A survey will be conducted this summer and a report of the findings will be made at a second workshop in January 2011.
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The Technical Services Section of HLA sponsored the SCCTP Basic Serials Cataloging Workshop, conducted by Eugene Dickerson, lead librarian for cataloging, U.S. Department of State, Ralph J. Bunche Library. The one-day workshop was held on March 17 in a marvelous technology classroom at the Joseph F. Smith Library at Brigham Young University-Hawaii. Fifteen individuals, including librarians from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, William S. Richardson School of Law Library, BYUH, Hawai‘i State Archives, Chaminade University, Hawaii Pacific University, Pacific Rim Bible College and the Library and Information Science Program at UH attended. Mahalo to Keiko Okuhara of the Law School for arranging the workshop and to Kimball Boone of BYUH for his assistance in securing the location and facilitating printing of the workshop materials.
The UHM LIS Alumni Group will be hosting its occasional alumni dinner Friday, April 9, starting at 5:30 p.m. at the Kapiʻolani Community College Tamarind Room. Dinner will be preceded by a wine tasting with Sky Cameron of Chambers & Chambers Wine Merchants.
Cost is $40 per person and the event is limited to 50 people. Wednesday, April 7
9 - 10 a.m. Hawaii State Archives 364 S. King St. Come join HLA's Reference & User Services Section as we explore procedures and policies of reference at the Hawaii State Archives in Downtown Honolulu. We'll look at some of the common reference questions the Archives receives and some of the tools they use to facilitate answering them. User Services include Card Catalog Indexes and their migration online, Finding Aids and an attempt to get them converted to EAD, and online services that are being added to almost daily. Space is limited so RSVP now! Email Dainan Skeem to reserve a seat. The HLA Spring Meeting is coming April 24, 2010. It will be at the Bishop Museum, an evening of dinner and socializing. Our speaker will be Mark Platte, Editor of the Honolulu Advertiser. Watch for details on registration coming soon.
Date: Saturday, April 24, evening Venue: Bishop Museum - Atherton Hall Pricing: HLA/HASL Members - $25; all non-HLA/HASL members - $35 Speaker: Mark Platte, Editor, Honolulu Advertiser Tentative Schedule 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.: Museum open to all registered Spring Meeting attendees. 11:30 a.m. - Noon: Tour of Library/Archives (Price to be determined and paid by attendees) 4 - 5 p.m.: Docent tour of Hawaii Hall ($3-to be paid by attendees) 5 - 5:30 p.m.: Registration at Atherton Hall/Socializing 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.: Dinner 6:30 - 6:45 p.m.: HLA meeting 6:45 - 7 p.m.: Break/Clean up caterers 7 - 8 p.m.: Speaker Mark Platte 8 - 8:30 p.m.: Clean up room About the Speaker Mark Platte is the editor and senior vice president of The Honolulu Advertiser, a job he has held the past four years. As editor, Mark is in charge of all aspects of news coverage and the editorial page. He oversees more than 130 employees of the state's largest newspaper. He started his career in 1982 as a staff writer on the city and features desks at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He joined The Miami Herald's Broward County Edition as a staff writer specializing in transportation in 1984. In 1988, he was hired at the Orange County Register also to cover transportation. He joined the Los Angeles Times in 1990 and held several reporting positions. He was named assistant city editor of the Times' Orange County Edition in 1996 and deputy city editor in 1998. Mark joined The Advertiser in 2000 as assistant managing editor, where he has directed much of the newspaper's enterprise and investigative reporting. He was named managing editor in 2004 and is a member of the newspaper's operating committee. Mark has been an instructor at several schools, including the University of Hawaii, Cal State Fullerton and Rancho Santiago College. He is a 2005 graduate of the Gannett Newspaper Division News Department's Management Development Program and a 1999 graduate of the Times-Mirror Leadership Institute for Managers. He is a 1982 journalism graduate of the University of South Carolina, where he was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper. |
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