September 2013 Newsletter -

ALA Hawaii Student Chapter UHM LIS Program

ALAsc Connection

ALAsc’s Monthly Newsletter: Connecting students with current

events in the LIS program

September 2013

Aloha! Introducing ALAsc Connection, the ALA Hawaii Student Chapter newsletter!

Issued monthly, ALAsc Connection is created by LIS students for LIS students. Our newsletter aims to keep students up-to-date on local ALAsc and national ALA events. Each monthly issue will contain:

• Monthly/current events

• Recaps of past events

• Achievements of fellow LIS colleagues

Look for more information in our October issue of ALAsc Connection!

Mahalo, Christina Shin, President

Hana Akina, Vice President Susan Davidson, Secretary

Daphne Miyashiro, Treasurer

University of Tsukuba, Japan | Exchange Program

Aloha and welcome to our guests from the University of Tsukuba, Japan! Join ALAsc in hosting our guests on Monday, Sept. 9!

This Month’s Events

Sept. 5

Sept. 9

Sept. 17

Sept. 18

ALAsc General Meeting

Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan Presentations & Lunch [3G/LIS Diner; 11:30–1:30]

Brown Bag with Jan Sung, Hamilton Access Services [3F; 4:00–4:45]

Brown Bag with Karen Hinton, ProQuest [3F; 4:00–4:45]

Sept. 6 ALAsc Pau Hana/Mixer [Yardhouse; 4:30–5:30]

ALA Hawaii Student Chapter September 2013

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Pau Hana @ Yardhouse Sept. 6 | 4:30–5:30 p.m.

Juggling classes, work, internships, volunteer work, and other related responsibilities can be hectic and overwhelming. Pau Hana events are an opportunity to relax and enjoy the company of fellow LIS colleagues! All LIS colleagues are invited to ALAsc’s monthly Pau Hana sessions.

ALAsc kicked off the fall semester with its first Pau Hana event on Friday, September 6, at Yardhouse, Waikiki. Being a member of ALAsc does have its perks: members received their first round of drinks paid for by ALAsc. Thank you to all ALAsc and LIS colleagues who came out to support our first Pau Hana of the semester!

Look for more information on October’s Pau Hana event in next month’s issue!

General Membership Meeting

ALAsc held its first general membership meeting on Thursday, September 5, in the LIS diner. Thank you to all colleagues who attended! ALAsc would like to welcome its newest members: Meera, Julia, and Tori, welcome to the team! For

those ALAsc members who were unable to attend, please e-mail us for a copy of the agenda or visit our website for more information.

*Contact information can be found at the end of this newsletter.


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Brown Bag Events

Who: Jan Sung Librarian, Hamilton Access Services

Date: Tuesday, September 17

Time: 4:00–4:45 p.m.

Place: Room 3F

Connect and network with LIS professional

University of Tsukuba | Exchange Program

The LIS program will be hosting two interns and two faculty members from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, as part of an international internship exchange program between the two schools. Our guests from Japan will be here from September 3 to 11.

Join us, Monday, September 9, 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., in room 3G for presentations by the two Tsukuba interns. Following the event, there will be a potluck lunch, cosponsored by ALAsc, in the LIS diner.

*For more information, please contact Dr. Asato ([email protected]).

Who: Karen Hinton Manager, ProQuest Customer Education & Training Department

Date: Thursday, September 26

Time: 4:00–4:45 p.m.

Place: Room 3F

Who: Irene Herold University Librarian, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Date: Tuesday, October 15

Time: 4:00–4:45 p.m.

Place: Room 3F


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Banned Books Week: Celebrating the

Freedom to Read September 22–28, 2013

American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom

For more information, check out

http://www.ala.org/bbooks/bannedbooksweek!

Banned Books, 2012–2013* 1. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-

Time Indian 2. Freed 3. The Handmaid’s Tale 4. Stone Dreams 5. Uncle Bobby’s Wedding 6. Ender’s Game 7. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 8. When It Happens 9. The Most Dangerous Game 10. Carter Finally Gets It 11. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting

By in America 12. Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in

Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies

13. Looking for Alaska 14. Tintin in the Congo 15. The Kite Runner 16. Totally Joe 17. The Popularity Papers 18. Fifty Shades of Grey 19. Different Seasons 20. SideScrollers 21. Allah, Liberty, and Love 22. 500 Years of Chicano History in

Pictures 23. Neonomicon 24. Beloved 25. Fallen Angels 26. Intensely Alice 27. Muslim Women and the Challenges

of Islamic Expression 28. Fight Club 29. The Family Book 30. A Child Called It 31. The Body of Christopher Creed 32. In Our Mothers’ House 33. And Tango Makes Three 34. Persepolis 35. Romeo and Juliet (No Fear

Shakespeare) 36. Prep 37. A Thousand Acres 38. Waterland 39. Hero-Heel2 40. The Dirty Cowboy 41. Stuck in Neutral 42. The Glass Castle: A Memoir 43. Robopocalypse 44. The Electric Kool-Aid Test

*Doyle, Robert P. Books Challenged or Banned 2012–2013. American Library Association, 2013.


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September Is Library Card Sign-Up Month American Library Association

Support our Hawaii State Public Library System (HSPLS)! Get your library card today and gain access to all 50 locations statewide. Applications can be found at any one of the many locations or downloaded from the HSPLS website http://hawaii.sdp.sirsi.net/custom/web/.

For more information and additional resources about library card sign-up month, visit http://www.ala.org.


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ALAsc Member of the Month

Each month ALAsc will be featuring an LIS colleague. Our aim is to encourage

collaboration, create networking opportunities, and highlight achievements

within our program. Share your experiences and learn from others!

Kimberly Jackson Kimberly Jackson was a legal secretary in civil litigation and corporate in-house counsel companies such as Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA, and American Apparel, Inc. for approximately fifteen years before applying to the University of Hawaii LIS Program, where she is currently on the General Track, with a focus in Archives and Special Collections Librarianship.

Originally from Anaheim, California, she received her B.A. in anthropology with a focus in ancient Mesoamerican cultures from California State University, Fullerton. She currently works as a graduate assistant for the University of Hawai’i Museum Studies Program, where she assists with the day-to-day administration of the program and facilitates special projects such as her most recent project, creating a resource website for the Crossing Cultures: The Art of Manga in Hawai’i exhibit, currently on display at Gallery ‘Iolani, Windward Community College.

In her spare time, she is also a volunteer for the University of Hawai’i Preservation Book Laboratory, where she assists with repairing and conserving books from the Hamilton Library collection, including materials from circulation and closed collections. Finally, Kimberly is the captain for the UHM LIS Web Team and the webmaster for the UHM LIS SLA-ASIS&T Student Chapter.

Her career goal is to work in a special library such as the Getty Research Institute (GRI), the Smithsonian Libraries, or the Library of Congress as a book preservationist. She is interested in working with the digitization of materials for open access. Her hobbies include volunteering, photography, collecting sounds, hiking, and bike riding.

Some of Kimberly’s past and current projects:

Cataloging and digitizing images for MEXECRI

Special events volunteer at the MoLAA

UHM Research Assistant, digitizing collections for Dr. Geoffrey White

UHM Technical Assistant (UHM DNS, Hamilton Library), digitizing collections for the Hawaii Geothermal Project

Digitizing volunteer at the Bishop Museum Botany Herbarium, digitizing plant specimens in high resolution for open access

Creating promotional items for Preservation Week 2013, such as a coffee cup coaster, bookmarks, and a brochure

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Creating an upcoming website that will house all Preservation Week information for the UHM LIS program

Virtual volunteer for the Smithsonian Gardens, assisting the museum by going through the digital image collection and tagging images using single words and short phrases to describe elements in the photographs in order to make the collections more accessible to users

Kimberly is also a member of the following professional and student organizations:

Professional Organizations

American Library Association Student member, 2013–present

Association of Hawai’i Archivists Student member, 2013–present

Special Library Association Student member, 2013–present

Western Museums Association

Student member, 2013–present

Student Organizations

Hui Dui

Member, 2012–present

Nominate a colleague for ALAsc Member of the Month for the October issue of ALAsc Connection. Send an e-mail to [email protected].

Society of American Archivists (SAA) Student Chapter Member, 2012–present

Special Libraries Association (SLA) Student Chapter Member, 2012–present Webmaster and board member, 2013–present

LIS WebTeam Team captain, 2013–present

University of Hawai’i Graduate Student Organization (GSO) UHM LIS Representative, 2013–present

Lambda Alpha Honor Society Lambda Alpha is the international honor society for students of anthropology. Lifetime member, 2008–present

Contact and learn more about Kimberly at kmjlibrarin.wordpress.com.


Questions? Suggestions? We’d love to hear from you!

[email protected]

http://alahisc.wordpress.com

LIS Office, Hamilton Library,

Room 2

Fall 2013 ALAsc Executive Board

Christina Shin, president; Hana Akina, vice president; Susan Davidson, secretary; Daphne

Miyashiro, treasurer

Photo Credits

Pg. 1; Tsukuba Photo credit: A. Wertheimer

Pg. 2; Pau Hana Photo credit (all three photos): C. Shin

Pg. 2; ALAsc Meeting Photo credit: A. Wertheimer

Pg. 3; Brown Bag Events Photo credit: J. Sung, K. Hinton, I. Herold

Pg. 3; Tsukuba Photo credit: A. Wertheimer

Pg. 4; BBW Photo/information credit: American Library Association; http://www.ala.org

Pg. 5; Library Card Sign-Up Photo credit: American Library Association; http://www.ala.org

Pg. 6; Member of the Month Photo credit: K. Jackson

Pg. 8; ALAsc Photo credit: C. Shin, H. Akina, S. Davidson, D. Miyashiro

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