First off, I hope everybody is enjoying the holiday season! It’s been very fun, but very busy for both Misty and I. You may have noticed we’ve been on a slight hiatus the last two weeks and one of the casualties of the rigors of holiday is our Library Tour. We started our Hawaii Public […]
Happy New Year! Hau’oli Makahiki Hou! You may have noticed a slight decrease in posts here at HBB (especially regarding our Library Tour— where we hit a bit of a snag and have not recovered). Despite failing to complete our Library Challenge by the end of the year (and my tendency to wallow) we’re still here and eager to […]
Just in time for Christmas we received our gift from the Book Blogger Holiday Swap! We mentioned the items that we sent to our secret book blogger earlier in this post. And yay! this weekend we got a box full of goodies from our secret blogger! I was so excited I didn’t even want to eat dinner… just tore right […]
Aloha Friday! It’s time for another Book End and as it’s the holiday season, the number of literary events has tailed off quite a bit in comparison to the weekends prior. However, there are still a number of interesting book signings, fun library events for the family, and other interesting happenings. Keep supporting Hawaii’s local […]
Thank you to everyone who entered our Holiday Book Giveaway on Twitter. We greatly appreciate all your retweets and consider you all winners in our hearts! But enough cheese and on to the drawing! The winner of this giveaway wins a free copy of Waikiki: Nine Walks Through Time by Veneeta Acson Phd.D (HBB review […]
The weather has finally cooled, lights are twinkling everywhere you look and KSSK is playing non-stop holiday tunes—it’s Christmas time in Hawaiʽi! Although there’s no snow, the cozy feeling of Christmas is never lacking and the season is merrily celebrated with friends, family and local holiday traditions. We may not live in the conventional climate that inspires holiday cheer, with […]
There is a great sense of preservation at Kaneohe Library. When speaking with Thomas Churma, we felt that under his management the library had a strong sense of safeguarding its past by balancing it with technology of the present. There is no greater example of this focus than in Thomas Churma’s goal of digitizing the […]
Help to support Hawaii’s literary community by attending one of these awesome literary/library events: Ongoing in December- At Kapolei Library: “Dark Clouds over Paradise: the Hawaii Internees Story,” an exhibit presented by the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii, will be on display from December 1 – 19 in the 2nd floor Lobby and can be […]
Yay! Our Secret Santee, Sheila—who runs an awesome book blog called Journey Through Books, received our holiday package yesterday and she posted a very nice thank you message on her blog here. Sheila is an active book blogger, participating in many challenges within the blogging community. She reviews books, interviews authors, has book give-aways and talks about all things reading […]
posted by M.L. Sanico I think one of the first things we started realizing about the Hawaii State Public Library System (the only statewide public library system in the United States) is that its greatest resources are its employees. We’ve met wonderful people who enjoy their jobs and care about their communities—librarians and aids who […]
Moʻomanaʻo Moʻokalaleo Pūnaewele o Hawaiʻi
Moʻomanaʻo Moʻokalaleo Pūnaewele o Hawaiʻi
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