The Hawaiʻi Library Association (HLA) is a professional organization for Hawaii's

librarians A librarian is a person who professionally works managing information. Librarians' common activities include providing access to information, conducting research, creating and managing information systems, creating, leading, and evaluating educat ...

and library workers created "to promote library service and librarianship in Hawai'i." It is headquartered in Honolulu, Hawai'i. The Hawai'i Library Association was organized at a meeting of 20 county librarians on January 16–17, 1922. Clara Hemenway, director of the

University of Hawaiʻi The University of Hawaiʻi System is a public college and university system in Hawaii. The system confers associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees through three universities, seven community colleges, an employment training center, ...

Library was the first president. The association's first informal meeting was in 1922; Margaret Newman was the first elected president at their first official meeting in 1924. HLA became a chapter of the

American Library Association The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world. History 19th century ...

at that same meeting, in March 1924. HLA publishes the ''HLA Newsletter'' (first published in 1943 as the News Bulletin), the ''Hawai‘i Library Association Journal'' (starting in 1944), and ''Current Hawaiiana''. HLA's Children and Youth Section sponsors the annual Nēnē Award, a children's book award selected by Hawaii's elementary and middle school children.

HLA sections

HLA has seven sections as of January, 2020. *Administration Section *Hawaiian Section *Information Technology Section *Reference and User Services Section *School and Media Center Services Section *Technical Services Section *Children and Youth Services Section

References

External links

Hawai'i Library Association websitePacific Islands Association of Libraries, Archives, and Museums website

hawaii Hawaii ( ; ) is an island U.S. state, state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland. One of the two Non-contiguous United States, non-contiguous U.S. states (along with Alaska), it is the only sta ...

Organizations based in Hawaii 1922 establishments in Hawaii {{Library-org-stub