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Past student art exhibitions have been archived on the library’s Art Blog.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

 

 

Rethinking Tenure

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

 

 

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

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).

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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.

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Free Resources to Help with Remote Learning in 2021

by Campus Technology
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“As the pandemic continues bringing change to higher education through the academic year, faculty, instructional designers and IT professionals are being more selective about the technology they choose for instructing and engaging students. While hundreds of education companies, nonprofits and other organizations made their software and services free during the immediate switch to remote learning, many have become more thoughtful about how they help educators master online and blended instruction. We’ve winnowed through our original collection and sprinkled additions throughout, to bring you this updated set of free resources to help with remote learning in 2021.”

Read more…

Celebrate Online Learning @ Your Library

As National Distance Learning Week (Nov 9-13) comes to a close, we’d like to take this moment to thank all of those who have supported online learners this year. In addition to appreciating instructors, staff members, and administrators, we’d like to thank those writers, editors, and publishers who have prioritized free and easy access to valuable information over monetary gain. These “open” texts are particularly important to our online learners now, in this year unlike any other. 

UH Press has recently published book 3 of The Value of HawaiʻiThe Value of Hawaiʻi 3: Hulihia, the Turning is available for free on the UH ScholarSpace as PDF or EPUB download. The description of the book explains well why this compilation of short essays is the latest essential text for our times:

The Value of Hawaii“Hulihia” refers to massive upheavals that change the landscape, overturn the normal, reverse the flow, and sweep away the prevailing or assumed. We live in such days. Pandemics. Threats to ʻāina. Political dysfunction, cultural appropriation, and disrespect. But also powerful surges toward sustainability, autonomy, and sovereignty.

Books 1 and 2 are also available online, through the library ebook system. Check out our Researching Local Topics research guide for access links.

 

 

 

 

 


Ocean debris, rising tides, urbanizations and industrializations, and coqui frogs…

In addition to a rise we’re seeing in students’ interest in cultural issues and topics, our online learners continue to seek out an increasing number of resources for civic environmentalism. In order to keep up with these rising demands, we’ve added a collection of 3-minute, critical thinking videos about Culture & Citizenship (published by Credo Reference – UHMC credentials required for access).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One librarian’s candid reviews on some popular engagement technology — cool stuff for use in the classroom, meetings, or presentations!

Jamboard (white board for posting and drawing and uploading images):
This is a good platform for the anonymous posting of ideas (number of characters are limited, so short posts only). The benefits include that it’s a free Google app (so participants may feel comfortable finding and using it), and that it’s super basic and really easy to set up and use. My favorite thing about Jamboard is that you can connect multiple boards, so Jamboard is more like interactive whiteboard slides.

The limitations may be: Not the best platform for commenting on posts or ideas (posts and comments look the same and aren’t automatically linked), you can’t add hyperlinks, and the space isn’t very big, so maybe not ideal for lots of posts (it doesn’t automatically expand).

 

Padlet (online ‘Pin board’ where users can post their thoughts on a topic, add pictures, audio, videos, links and upload documents.):

If you want a platform for posting a variety of types of content (sticky notes, websites, videos, photos, etc.), with the ability to comment on each post, Padlet may work for you. Padlet has a variety of templates to choose from, which is fun and you can customize the boards based on your needs – for example there’s a “mind-mapping” board.

Also, Padlet will expand as the number of notes grows, which allows for a lot of posts, but there’s only one board, so it’s limited to one question or topic per board. The other possible downfall of Padlet is that you can only own three boards before you need to pay for the upgrade. Padlet can be used anonymously or users can login to post and comment with their name. (I know a few faculty who love Padlet and happily pay the extra $8/month for Pro, but we’re hoping to get pro licenses with CARES). Padlet will integrate with Laulima).

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I think this is one of the better Q&A and polling platforms out there. You can create an “event” where you ask questions either live or as a link that’s active for a set amount of time. So I think the real benefit of Slido is that responses don’t have to be done quickly live. Posting is anonymous. You simply give participants a code to put into the webpage and they can add their comments and thoughts on their on time. The main disadvantage is that you’ll need to upgrade to Pro if you want to use it beyond asking just 3 questions. (we’re hoping to get pro license with CARES)

Ice Breaker (and stress releaser) Games ♠️
I’m all about the “levity” apps and engagements these days! Here are two easy, quick and fun online games that I learned about in a student-led convention:

Spyfall online interactive card game. Best for smaller groups (6 to 8 players is ideal, but you can play with up to 12 people). Low stakes, good ‘ol fashioned card game fun that encourages creative and critical thinking. Kinda like a fast game of Clue.

And https://skribbl.io/ (like Pictionary) – seems really dorky at first, but actually fun (online drawing is hard – and funny!) 

HAPPY ENGAGEMENT! 
/your librarian, ellen

August hours and a new appointment booking system – BOOK NOW!

Aloha UHMC ‘Ohana~

You might be able to relate to this – I’ve spent all summer obsessively preparing for every possible scenario I can imagine for fall 2020, and I still feel underprepared. So this is what I’m gonna be thinking as I drive to work on Monday: Don’t let “perfection be the enemy of good” (translating  Voltaire). No matter what we do, this year will be different. Let’s make this year as good for the students and our campus community as possible, and accept that that is OK.

If easy is good, please note that everything mentioned in this post can be found on the library homepage or mobile app. If you’re not an app-wielding library power user (yet), you can text library to 808-518-4080 to receive back a link to the library homepage (save the library SMS number in your phone for when you may need to text a librarian!).

Here are the indoor and outdoor service hours we’re trying for August:

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We’ve been experimenting building an online booking system. So far we’re liking it!  BOOK NOW! is an automated system that should streamline and simplify the complicated business of scheduling all our seats, services, materials, and equipment.

  • BOOK NOW! to book study desks, computer lab seats, and equipment (scanner, printer, piano) in the library.
  • BOOK NOW! for library Grab & Go of books, prints, scans, and equipment outside.
  • BOOK NOW! to book laptop and other equipment loans.
  • BOOK NOW! to schedule appointments with librarians and tech tutors.Access BOOK NOW! easily from the library homepagemobile app, QR code, or text booknow to 808-518-4080 to receive the link on your mobile phone.
  • Once we get past the first weeks of school and see how this is working, we’ll look at the changes we may need to make for September hours, services, and library building access.🦄 peace & love,
    your librarian ellen

Internet Archives continues to make almost 1.4 million ebooks available

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.

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Cultivating Racial Literacy

There are many resources with respect to racism, anti-racism, and racial literacy.  Compiled by Innovative Educators, this is a starting point for developing an understanding of institutionalized racism and to start or continue conversations on campus:

Resources & Commitment to the Black Lives Matter Campaign
Black Lives Matter is “committed to struggling together and to imagining and creating a world free of anti-Blackness, where every Black person has the social, economic, and political power to thrive.”  At Innovative Educators, we embrace and support Black Lives Matter through our work and through donation.