Information specialist
My speciality is in Archival Management, such as the acquisition, preservation, arrangement, description, digitization and access of historically and culturally significant print materials. I believe in training people to have the capacity to create, maintain and grow their own archives to serve the institutional memory and knowledge making of their organizations, small and large. I am passionate about advocating for, and leading, the archival preservation of multicultural communities and social justice movements papers and multimedia to support research, education and memory of the way they transform and heal their communities from cycles of violence.
I also have experience managing library operations, such as reference services, information literacy instruction, library tours, book processing/book repair, circulation, book clubs, public exhibitions, and research programs. Libraries are places where people can find information to reflect and tap into their inner wisdom to help themselves for the better.
As people become more savvy with computer devices, they have the capacity to create their own media and information sources to reflect their knowledge systems. I am passionate about teaching technology literacy, such as word processing, editing, desktop publishing, web development, video and audio production, so that people can use basic and accessible software to creatively and digitally express their ideas in today's networked world.
I am also a researcher of Southeast Asian and Pacific Island embodied archives. I am trained in Kanaka Maoli hula, Philippine and Balinese dances to understand how Austronesian peoples preserved knowledge of place and ritual in kinetic, aural, vocal and sonic expressions. I also examine how land and body are also archives, recording or erasing the ways the environment was built for different purposes, as well as the emotional energy of generations of people who inhabited those places across time.
Experience
Archives
Rate
sliding scale: $25-100/hour for consultation and/or project management services
I also have experience managing library operations, such as reference services, information literacy instruction, library tours, book processing/book repair, circulation, book clubs, public exhibitions, and research programs. Libraries are places where people can find information to reflect and tap into their inner wisdom to help themselves for the better.
As people become more savvy with computer devices, they have the capacity to create their own media and information sources to reflect their knowledge systems. I am passionate about teaching technology literacy, such as word processing, editing, desktop publishing, web development, video and audio production, so that people can use basic and accessible software to creatively and digitally express their ideas in today's networked world.
I am also a researcher of Southeast Asian and Pacific Island embodied archives. I am trained in Kanaka Maoli hula, Philippine and Balinese dances to understand how Austronesian peoples preserved knowledge of place and ritual in kinetic, aural, vocal and sonic expressions. I also examine how land and body are also archives, recording or erasing the ways the environment was built for different purposes, as well as the emotional energy of generations of people who inhabited those places across time.
Experience
Archives
- University of Hawaiʻi School of Law Library Archive
- Hawai'i Peace and Justice Archive Project
- International Women's Network Against Militarism web archive
- Manilatown Heritage Foundation Archives
- Philippine Dance (Ilocano, Ifugao, Tagalog, Tausug, Maranao, Maguindanao)
- Balinese Dance (Gabor, Memendet, Dayang Dayang, Legong Pelayon, Margapati)
- Kanaka Maoli Hula (under Kupuna Alexa Vaught)
- Waikīkī DeTour (‘ili of Kālia)
- World Medicine Institute Library
- Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School Library
- Lam Ang and the Fire Giant eBook Publication, Project Gutenberg
- Homeless Prenatal Program
- ellenraec on YouTube
Rate
sliding scale: $25-100/hour for consultation and/or project management services