The Hawaiʻi Library Association (HLA) is a professional organization for Hawaii's
librarians and library workers created "to promote library service and librarianship in Hawai'i." It is headquartered in
Honolulu, Hawai'i
Honolulu (; ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean. It is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated county seat of the Consolidated city-county, consolidated City and County of H ...
. 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, formally the University of Hawaiʻi and popularly known as UH, is a public college and university system that confers associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees through three universities, seven com ...
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 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
Organizations based in Hawaii
1922 establishments in Hawaii
{{Library-org-stub