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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.

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.

Internet Archives continues to make almost 1.4 million ebooks available

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The Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library, an initiative it began in March as a response to Covid-19, continues to use a controlled lending system to make almost 1.4 million books temporarily available to anyone – usually a 1 hour or a 14 day digital loan. Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) is a new system of lending e-books as if they were printed that makes it so readers can’t freely redistribute digital books they’ve borrowed. Browse the library (no login required to browse, free log in required to read ebooks), and check out the bolg post on how Internet Archives can help course reserves this fall.