Marketing Archival Collections on Your Library Catalog with No Pennies

Presentation slidesSometimes archival collections are quietly kept in a special collection. Archives are a source for historical evidence and factual accounts of activities. They are our recorded memory, story tellers, and are documents for people to provide valuable sources for research and our community. The rise of emerging platforms for archival collections is to make them accessible and discoverable; however, current solutions are enchanting and yet pricey. This program gives some insight on how to increase visibility of your archival collections through your online catalog and illustrates how to make a bridge between Omeka, archival platform, and Alam, library system, by implementing Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PHM) for repository interoperability. The OAI protocol allows the metadata in Omeka to be discovered in Primo to effectively market our archival collections with no extra cost

Beyond the Panic Button: A Dialogue on Sustainability and Public Services Challenges

Presentation slidesThe William S. Richardson School of Law Library staff is exploring “sustainability” as the balance of working relationships between staff and patrons to ensure safety for all. In particular, we have been working with public patrons who exhibit behavioral issues or are “houseless.” We aspire toward former Chief Justice William S. Richardson’s legacy, which was to practice Aloha, compassion, and ethics towards those who are vulnerable or oppressed. Our presentation will discuss findings on how local libraries deal with public patrons with behavioral issues or who are “houseless;” how we have designed our library space, services practice, policies, and procedures to balance our needs for safety with our values; and how behavioral health professionals, regular patrons, students, and staff feel about these issues. Lastly, we would like to dialogue with other local library professionals — what else can be done to practice “sustainability” between human relationships, public educational institutions, and the community

Dia de los Muertos: In Memory of Jennifer Laude / Remembering Lost Beloveds / Honoring our Continued Survivance

This script documents the program for an event to commemorate the death of Filipina trans woman named Jennifer Laude by the hands of a U.S. military personnel, in Olongapo, Philippines. This murder was linked to the killing of a Native Hawaiian man named Kollin Elderts who was shot by a U.S. Federal Agent during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit, in Honolulu in 2011. The script is a ritual eulogy to make links of solidarity across communities who grieve because of the people they lost due to militarization of their lands. The script also presents Ashliana Hawelu-Fulgoni, the co-founder and Executive Director of Kulia Na Mamo, who spoke on the issues of mahuwahine and how they are impacted by militarization and military personnel

Hxstoriography of Filpina/x in Hawaiʻi: Our Movements, Archives, and Memories

“Filipina/x in Hawaiʻi: Our Movements, Archives, and Memories” is an exhibit and digital archive that tells multiple stories of Filipina/x diaspora on Oʻahu departing from settler colonial expectations by exploring alignment with Hawaiian demilitarization movements. This paper offers an interpretation of archival documents, created by Urban Babaylan (UB), Women’s Voices Women Speak (WVWS), and Decolonial Pin@y (DP), providing examples of community research that critically confront multiple layers of settler colonialism in the Philippines and Hawaiʻi, to build Filipina/x capacities to understand their relations to Kānaka Maoli history, and to engage more people in ongoing, regional demilitarization and decolonization movements

Review: Archival Anxiety and the Vocational Calling by Richard Cox

This book review covers Richard Cox's exploration on issues of ethics in the archival profession. He suggests that digital technology and information exchange across archival professions can foster change in the field

Accessing Community Archives of Political Histories

Community organizations producerecords because they engage in organizational functions and have archives of historical value. Although they do not have the resources to create climate-controlled, high-security archives— like, for example, academic archives, government archives, or established heritage institutions, communities find ways to get theirmessages across to wider publics. The International Women’s Network Against Militarism (IWNAM) (previously named the East Asia– U.S.–Puerto Rico Women’s Network Against Militarism) has been organizing biennial internationalmeetings since 1997, bringing togetherwomen who are activists, policymakers, teachers, and students to strategize about the negative impacts of militarism and to redefine security. The meetings initially included women from Okinawa, South Korea, the Philippines, and the U.S. but expanded over time to include women from Puerto Rico and Vieques, Hawai’i, Guåhan, Australia, and the Marshall Islands

Review: Archival Anxiety and the Vocational Calling by Richard Cox

This book review covers Richard Cox's exploration on issues of ethics in the archival profession. He suggests that digital technology and information exchange across archival professions can foster change in the field

Keep off the Moors: The road to data archival storage

The William S. Richardson School of Law Library has embarked on a journey to develop their archival collections. This article outlines the steps to assess the archival and record-keeping context of an institution in order to plan the installation and development of repositories and technology to support the access and curation to digital collections and electronic records

Archives of Transformation: A Case Study of the International Women's Network Against Militarism's Archival System

This dissertation describes the International Women's Network Against Militarism's (IWNAM) political epistemology of security from an archival perspective, and how they create community archives to evidence this epistemology. This research examines records created by Women for Genuine Security (WGS) and Women's Voices Women Speak (WVWS), U.S. and Hawaii based partners of the IWNAM. These records document the emergence of the IWNAM between 1997 and 2012, as women from the countries of South Korea, Japan, Okinawa, Philippines, Australia, Republic of Belau, Guam, Marshall Islands, Hawaii, U.S., Puerto Rico, and Vieques shared information about the negative effects of militarism and strategies of resistance. By describing the archival systems of WGS and WVWS, insight on the IWNAM's knowledge production and archive creation processes are revealed. The archive is conceptualized as the expression of a record creator's "will," an immaterial force that materializes through the dynamic creation of records and recordkeeping systems that coordinate resources and labor to build organizations, institutions and infrastructures. The IWNAM archive is embedded in the Imperial Archive, an imperialist will that creates bi-lateral security agreements, such as the Status of Forces Agreements (SOFA) between the U.S. and South Korea and the U.S. and Japan; and the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) between the U.S. and the Philippines. The functions of these agreements are to adapt Westphalian philosophies of security, i.e. Eurocentric militaristic development and international relations, into new territories and contexts. Autoethnography, action research, and archival analysis were used to examine how the IWNAM's record creation and recordkeeping processes are driven by social practices and research to redefine security. The IWNAM archive is conceptualized as a complex adaptive system that facilitates public self-reflection on community embeddedness within militarized orders and creative agency to transform their conditions