2021 HLA+PIALA Joint Conference

Started employment from May 2008 - PRESENTPositions held: Library Assistant I, Library Assistant II, Library Assistant III, Librarian I.(Supervisor for Front Circulation from 2009 - 2018)Current position: Computer Specialist I (2019 - PRESENT)Area of work: Pacific Collection RoomAssist... Read More →

Kylie Flood is the Hawaiian and Young Adult Collections Librarian at Nānākuli Public Library. Collection development, programming, displays, and community engagement are a large part of her kūleana at Nānākuli Public Library. She is passionate about creating programs relevant... Read More →

Jennifer Fuchikami uses the term "The Artist Librarian" to describe her educational background of a BA in studio art and her MLISc. Besides representing her two passions, it also reflects her goal to instill a lifelong love of reading, creativity, and learning in all patrons regardless... Read More →

Stanislava (Stasha) Gardasevic is a Ph.D. candidate at the interdisciplinary program in Communication and Information Sciences, and a teaching assistant/course instructor for technology-related courses at Library and Information Science (LIS) Program at UH Mānoa. Her background is... Read More →

Mandi graduated with her MLISc from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in December 2020 with a focus on academic and digital librarianship and also holds a M.A.Ed. in Instructional Technology and a B.S. in Computer Science. She’s currently working at the Marine Corps Base Hawaiʻi... Read More →

Meri Healey is the Marine Corps Base Hawaii Library director. Before that, she managed the US Army Garrison Daegu libraries in South Korea. She got her MLIS from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and got her start in libraries working for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public... Read More →

Lori Zuttermeister is the Marine Corps Base Hawaii Library Lead Library Technician.  I have worked here for almost 21 years, having started as the Programming Technician.  Prior to my start with Base Library, I worked for the Hawaii State Public Library for over 12 years.  I had... Read More →

Ellie Kim works as the Korean Studies Librarian at the Asian Collection Department of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library.

Do Young Park is a library researcher at the Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Since last year, Do Young has managed special collections and archival materials on Korean Americans during her research program. Do Young's recent interests include digital technologies... Read More →

Jodie Mattos is a librarian in the Hawaiian Collection, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Library. From July 2019 to June 2021, she served as department chair for the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections. Since 2019, she has managed the off-air project which records television programs... Read More →

Kumi Macdonald, Executive Director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness Hawaii (NAMI Hawaii), has a background in education, hotel management, and most recently as a director of small group ministry at Honolulu Christian Church. Born in Japan, raised in California and Hawaii... Read More →

Margaret Joyce is the Hawaiian Materials Cataloging/Metadata Librarian at Hamilton Library at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, a position she has served in since 2017, providing original cataloging services for the Library's comprehensive collection of Hawaiian and Hawaiʻi-related... Read More →

Sunyeen (Sunny) Pai is the Kapiʻolani Community Collegeʻs Digital Initiatives Librarian. She formerly worked at UH Mānoa Library, where she helped establish their first DSpace repository, Scholarspace. She has been involved with open access since. Once at Kapiʻolani CC, she collaborated... Read More →

Jason Ford is a MLISc. student at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. His thesis research explores how Indigenous research methodologies and epistemologies can inform information literacy. He is also a student intern in the SciTech department at Hamilton Library, an OER student intern... Read More →

Nick Thieberger is concerned to make language materials secure and re-usable both for speakers of the language and for current and future researchers. He set up the Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre in 1988, then moved to Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander... Read More →

Ralph has had a lifelong fascination with understanding how things work, which is reflected both in his work with library and information technology, and his hobbies and activities which include photography, motorcycling, amateur radio, and volunteer emergency service. Ralph’s recent... Read More →