AHA & Community Events

Morgan Schmidt AHA Event

How to SNAC (Social Networks and Archival Context) Webinar

Please join us on Thursday, December 19th, 2024, for an AHA Webinar, “How-to SNAC” with our presenter, Jerry Simmons.

We will learn about SNAC (Social Networks and Archival Context), which is a free, online resource that helps users discover biographical and historical information about persons, families, and organizations that created or are documented in historical resources (primary source documents) and their connections to one another. Users can locate archival collections and related resources held at cultural heritage institutions around the world. SNAC is an international cooperative including, but not limited to, archives, libraries, and museums, that is working to build a corpus of reliable descriptions of people, families, and organizations that link to and provide a contextual understanding of historical records. At its core, SNAC leverages the EAC-CPF (Encoded Archival Context-Corporate bodies, Persons, Families) schema to organize and share archival authority data widely.

Our speaker, Jerry Simmons, is the former National Archives and Records Administration’s Lead External Agency Liaison to the SNAC (Social Networks and Archival Context) Cooperative. Jerry previously held roles as the Team Lead for Authority Control for ARC (Archival Research Catalog) and DAS (Description and Authority Service), and coordinator of NARA’s NACO (Name Authority Cooperative) and SACO (Subject Authority Cooperative) efforts. On October 1, 2024, he took on a new role as a Management Analyst in the National Archives Office of Innovation. Since January 2023, he has served as an Adjunct Professor in Simmons University’s School of Library and Information Science (Boston), teaching graduate courses on archival access and use, and oral history in archives and libraries.

Registration is now closed.

Morgan Schmidt Community Event

AHA celebrates American Archives Month with the following free activities open to all!

‘Ulu‘ulu is presenting an archival film screening at the Hawai‘i International Film Festival and showcasing HAWAI‘I PONO‘I, the newly restored 1970 film, a visually stunning and poetic meditation on music, the gods in the Hawaiian pantheon and the mystique and ancestry of Hana, Maui. This film documents the Ho‘olaule‘a O Hana Maui and features artists ‘Iolani Luahine, the Farden Sisters, Gabby Pahinui, Ka‘upena Wong, and Eddie Kamae. A panel discussion with filmmaker Myrna Kamae, Bishop Museum historian Desoto Brown, and archivist Janel Quirante follows the screening.

When & Where:

Saturday, October 5, 2024 at 1:00pm at Consolidated Theatres Kahala

Encore screening on Wednesday, October 16, 2024 at 1:00pm at UH West O‘ahu (no panel)

Reserve free tickets at https://hiff.org/events/hawaiipono1970

Hawaiʻi State Archives celebrates the history of the ukulele.

When & Where: Sunday, October 6, 2024, 2:00 p.m. at Orvis Auditorium, UH Mānoa.

AHA presents an archives chat recapping the recent annual conference of the Society of American Archivists.

When: Monday, October 7, 2024. Register for Zoom link here.

Center for Labor Education & Research presents the broadcast of “Ah Quon McElrath: The Struggle Never Ends.”

When: October 17, 2024, 8:30 p.m. and October 20, 2024, 1:00 p.m. on PBS Hawaiʻi.

For more information, contact: clear@hawaii.edu

Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum will be celebrating American Archives Month with social media postings of a selection of letters, newspaper articles, and other printed matter, about the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company and Maui Agricultural Company’s activities during the early to mid 20th century.

For more information, contact: Holly Buland, Assistant Director, operations@sugarmuseum.com, 808-871-8058

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Hawaii Archivists AHA Event

Site visit at Punahou School Archives

Zoom from wherever you are and discover the collections, resources, and digital archives website of the Punahou School Archives!

About this event
Join the Association of Hawaiʻi Archivists for a virtual tour with Kylee Mar, Archivist of the Punahou School Archives. Zoom from wherever you are and discover the collections, resources, and digital archives website of the Punahou School Archives! Space is limited to 50 individuals. We will also email out site visit information closer to date. We look forward to touring with you!

Kylee Mar

Kylee Pōmaikaʻi Mar was born and raised in Kapahulu, O’ahu. For the past 22 years, she has been the Archivist at Punahou School. A lifelong learner and educator, her teaching experience spans Pre-K through Higher Education with a passion towards public and private partnerships. Her favorite part of being an archivist is discovering stories that have yet to be told about Punahou’s history and incorporating them into the Punahou School curriculum or sharing them with other constituents.

Update 5/2/2022:

Did you miss the event? Check out the recorded Zoom session from April 22, 2022 here

Hawaii Archivists Conferences

AHA 2022 Annual Meeting

IT’S THAT TIME AGAIN!

Join us on Saturday, February 19th from 9am – 1pm, online via Zoom for the Association of Hawaiʻi Archivists 2022 Annual Meeting, ‘Connecting Through the Changes.’ 

Click here to register via Eventbrite.

COVID-19 has brought changes and challenges, especially transforming our surroundings and how quickly we must adapt and adopt. The pandemic has turned into a lifestyle and the virtual world has become our tool in continuing forward. Zoom fatigue is real and virtual experiences can still leave us feeling disconnected and isolated as we navigate through our professional responsibilities.

As we find ourselves in the virtual realm once again, AHA strives to create space to foster a meaningful experience. To be seen, feel heard, and realize we are not alone. Connecting through the Changes, highlights the importance of making time to simply be with each other and hopefully learn a new thing or two!   

The 2022 AHA Annual Meeting will be held online with a keynote and a business meeting.  However, this year AHA is creating multiple breakout rooms for our members to join and engage in different ways.  AHA’s goal is to connect with our fellow colleagues. 

The conference is free. The program includes:

Keynote Address

Connections and Changes, Janel Quirante, Head Archivist of ‘Ulu‘ulu: The Henry Ku‘ualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive of Hawai‘i at the University of Hawai‘i – West O‘ahu

How a traffic barrier, an Ant Farm, William F. Buckley, and the Beatles became the unlikely and surprising connections on an ever-changing archival career journey.

Zoom Breakout Rooms

  • Connecting: A networking, social room to connect with professionals and talkstory.  Grab a cup of coffee or beverage of choice and catch up with your fellow archivists, librarians, and information professionals. 
  • Challenges: A room for discussion on the challenges we are currently facing as information professionals and  innovative solutions that have helped us at our specific place.  Ask your burning questions, share your knowledge, or highlight a recent archival project–this room is a space to collaborate and inspire us to continue onwards.
  •  Changes: What do you want out of your AHA membership in the upcoming year?  Come and meet the President-elect, Cynthia Engle, and ask your questions or share your thoughts and ideas.

Just like in real life, conversations ebb and flow and people come and go, please feel free to switch rooms to visit with everyone. The breakout rooms will close at 11:45am and all participants are encouraged to return to the main room and stay for the Business Meeting. Please note, you must have certain zoom configurations in order to participate. Click here for Zoom support and to read the specifications.

Download the program and schedule below

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The 2022 AHA Business Meeting will take place at 12pm on February 19th.  Any and all may attend the Business meeting, but only AHA members in good standing may vote.

The 2022 AHA Business Meeting will take place at 12pm on February 19th.  Any and all may attend the Business meeting, but only AHA members in good standing may vote.

Renew your membership today!  Click here to renew.