Maui College Library – News & Updates

Fall 2021 Student Art & Creative Media Virtual Exhibition

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You are cordially invited to visit our Virtual Library Art Gallery to explore this semester’s student art and graphic design exhibition!

Directions: Visit the Maui College virtual library, and then enter the Art Gallery.

Beyond the library’s Art Gallery, please feel free to explore the other rooms in this virtual space. If you’d like to share the link to the Maui College Virtual Library, it’s this: https://tinyurl.com/mauicollegevirtuallibrary

Help boost your engagement (or your students’) with the virtual library scavenger hunt!

Past student art exhibitions have been archived on the library’s Art Blog.

ENJOY! 🔮📚

New Fiction Books Arrive in the Library

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Looking for something to read over the holidays? Check out the library’s New Fiction collection!

Browse titles online, then pick-up in person.

Rethinking Tenure

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The Chronicle of Higher Education’s latest report on tenure couldn’t be more timely for the our University. The report: Rethinking Tenure: Abolish, Strengthen or Replace It? (access for UHMC only) includes the following sections.

Section 1: New Tenure Models for Changing Times
Section 2: Financial, Political, and Equity Concerns
Section 3: The Future of a Beleaguered Institution

The synopsis is as follows:

Tenure as an institution has been shrinking for years. Today, tenured and tenure-track faculty members make up less than 30 percent of the nation’s professoriate. Some colleges are experimenting with alternatives to tenure, finding ways to offer job security and a governance role to those outside the system. Others are trying to make tenure expectations clearer and fairer.

In this collection of Chronicle articles, anchored by newly reported analysis, you’ll hear from academics who want to strengthen tenure, recreate it, abolish it, or experiment with something new in its place. Read on to learn how tenure’s place in the academy is changing.

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Date: August 2021
Pages: 92

A 💌 Love Letter 💌 from Your Library 📚 💖

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Dear UHMC ‘Ohana~

Aloha and welcome to Fall 2021! Your library is here for you and your students.

During Fall 2021, we continue to be available online and in-person.

Online

Contact us to connect with a librarian or staff member via live chat, text, phone or email. We are available to assist you remotely with scheduling study rooms and appointments, equipment loans, book paging services, and individual research consultations.

In-Person

Library Hours ~ M-Th: 10am to 4pm. Closed F, Sat, Sun.

When the library is closed, other spaces for students may be available (check with Kākoʻo Support Services for updates).

In-Person Services are available to current UH cardholders who have successfully completed all current campus entrance protocols.

Library in-person services include:

Computer Lab with design stations and tech support
A variety of comfortable seating options
Study rooms for individual or partner study
Thousands of books to browse
Print (color and b/w) + Scan + Fax
Scavenger hunts and other opportunities for discovery
Makerspace with 3D printing and Podcast Studio

Have a great semester!

Sincerely,

Your Library

Read Haunani-Kay Trask

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Haunani-Kay Trask was an educator and political activist who spoke and wrote about the theft of Hawai‘i and the abuse of Native Hawaiian rights.

Her poetry is quite powerful and often deals with themes of being colonized.

Through HathiTrust, we have temporary (COVID “emergency”) online access to two of her books of poetry:

From the HathiTrust book page, click on Check Out:

You’ll get renewable hours with the books. Return it early, when you’re done, so others can read the title:

(Once we are out of HathiTrust’s COVID emergency access status in August, all of her books will be available to you in print from the UHMC library.)

For those interested in Haunani-Kay Trask’s nonfiction, the highly-regarded From a Native Daughter: From Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai‘i is available to read online, through EBSCO ebooks. Kūʻē: Thirty Years of Land Struggle in Hawaiʻi (a powerful visual representation of the fight for Indigenous rights in Hawai‘i) is available in print from the library (get the call number and book status here).

And, if you do a search for Haunani-Kay Trask in our catalog (Primo), you’ll find articles she wrote and literary reviews of her work.

2nd Annual Campus-wide ANTIRACISM READING DAY

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On June 30th, please join the library in taking a pause…

As we consider and celebrate Progressive Pride Month month and Juneteenth, the UHMC library continues to support the last day in June (June 30th) as an annual, campus-wide Antiracism Reading Day — reading for antiracism reflection, education, and action.

This “event” originally began as the library’s response to the May 25th, 2020 murder of George Floyd that catalyzed world-wide protests, reflection, and expressions for change. Many of our institutional leaders and colleagues at UH published solidarity statements that called for continued change to the systems of racism (read more about this in our library blog post from 6/20/20).

Since his killing one year ago, George Floyd has become a symbol for racial reckoning in the U.S. At Maui College, we’ve been creating spaces to discuss issues of race, power, and equity in the context of Hawaiʻi and higher education.

The Reading Day Recommendations from last Summer (scroll down this post to read the recommendations) continue on as viable resources. The focus of the list is institutional and systemic racism, and highlights might be our collection of “classics” (such as the ebook, Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?) and Librarian Shavonn’s Books on Anti-Racism in Hawaiʻi with focus on Kānaka. Or, visit the library to explore Progressive Pride Month display ( this on our Facebook and IG pages).

We hope you find something of interest to read from the library (or anywhere!)for tomorrow’s 2nd Annual Campus-wide Antiracism Reading Day!

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(what is the meaning of the new progressive pride flag!?)

UH Summer Book Club to Focus on “New” Civics Education

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This Summer’s reading: Building Better Citizens: A New Civics Education for All by Holly Korbey

This Spring, the Hawaii Judiciary formed a Commission to Promote and Advance Civic Education (“PACE Commission”) and events surrounding the last national election have highlighted the need for a renewed conversation around civic education. In keeping with both the national and state focus on civic education, the book selected for this summer is Building Better Citizens: A New Civics Education for All by Holly Korbey (2019).

While the book focuses on civics education for K-12 in some detail, the lessons and overall discussion of the importance of civic education for an informed citizenry is relevant for higher education as well. The UHMC library has purchased electronic copies of the text through Ebook Central and one copy in print (currently in cataloging). You can also (of course) purchase the book for around $30 via any bookseller.

Publisher’s description:

Educating for citizenship was the original mission of American schools, but for decades that knowledge—also known as civics education—has been in decline, as schools have shifted focus to college and career, STEM, and raising reading and math scores. But over the last few years, spurred on by political polarization and a steep decline in public understanding, civics education is seeing a nation-wide resurgence, as school leaders, educators, and parents recognize the urgency of teaching young people how America works—especially young people who have been marginalized from the political system. But this isn’t your grandmother’s civics. The “new” civics has been updated and re-tooled for the phone-addicted, multi-cultural, globalized twenty-first century kid. From combatting “fake news” with fact checking in Silicon Valley, to reviving elementary school social studies in Nashville, to learning civic activism in Oklahoma City, journalist Holly Korbey documents the grassroots revival happening across the country. Along the way, she provides an essential guidebook for educators, school leaders and caregivers of all types who want to educate a new generation of engaged citizens at a critical time in American democracy.

Guide to Gender Identity Terms

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June is Pride Month, and at the library we want to celebrate and honor our LBGTQ+ students and colleagues. This week NPR shares a helpful guide, created in collaboration with GLAAD, for understanding gender identity terms and pronouns.