Moʻo: Connections & Successions

The Hawaiian Librarianship Symposium aims to…

• Serve as the platform for the Kamehameha Schools tri-campus meeting, whereby professionals (information specialists, librarians, media specialists, kumu, administrators, library specialists-assistants, technicians, IT specialists, etc.,) have the opportunity to discuss pertinent issues regarding library/learning center practices.

• Look at our work from a cultural lens (2017 Theme: Moʻo – Connections and Successions) and model the many ways in which we can produce rigorous, relevant, and relationship-rich Hawaiian culture-based education learning environments that promote student-centric teaching and learning.

• Advocate for the importance and awareness of the valuable role librarians can play in successful transitions to digital learning and to position librarians as educational leaders in support of building a thriving lāhui Hawaiʻi.

ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi is steeped in kaona or layered and hidden meaning. The poetic nature of the language allows for individualized interpretation and living definitions which grow and change along with the successive generations of kanaka who live and breathe this tradition. Descriptions are thus purposely vague to promote personalization of meaning, thereby placing Lāhui Hawaiʻi at the root of this preservation of knowledge and transference of wisdom.