Your Library Card, Holo I Mua June 2015 Endless Possibili es! www.librarieshawaii.org Super Hero Bon Dance Kicks Passport Service Not Available June 6 off Summer Reading “Super Hero Bon Dance” 2015 Summer Reading Kick-off Event will be ith a large crowd expected presented on the Great Lawn of the Hawaii State Library on Saturday, for HSPLS’s 2015 Summer June 6 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Entertainer Lina Girl will emcee this free Reading Programs’ Kick-off special event. Event, passport acceptance Everyone is invited to service will not be available A W wear a kimono, happi coat or June 6 at the Hawaii State Library- favorite super hero costume and Federal Documents Section. The join costumed super heroes like popular service will resume on June Batman, Wonder Woman and Star 8 at 10 a.m. Regular hours of this Wars’ Storm Troopers at the Bon service are Monday through Friday Dance from 10 a.m. to noon with from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Saturday live music performed by the Aiea from 9 a.m. to noon. Taiheiji Yagura Gumi. Real-life law enforcement and safety heroes Pearl City Library will also participate in the event to illustrate some of the various kinds Reopens of heroes that will be explored Pearl City Public Library throughout our Summer Reading will reopen on June 8 at noon Programs. The bon dance event will following the completion of major provide a venue to celebrate our Renovation Projects including See Super Hero Bon Dance Kicks off Summer Reading, page 3 re-roofing, re-flooring, and other improvements. Mahalo nui loa to the Join Our Summer Reading Programs Department of Accounting and he Hawaii State Public Library System (HSPLS) invites readers of General Services for repairing all ages to sign up for our 2015 Summer Reading Programs currently our libraries for the benefit of the underway at public libraries statewide. Register for the free seven-week patrons and employees. programs which run through July 18. Some libraries may extend their T programs beyond the July 18 date; contact your local library for dates and other guidelines. Participants who visit their local library and read at least one book per June 11 – Kamehameha Day Holiday, week are eligible to receive a free reading incentive, while supplies last. In all public libraries will be closed. addition to reading, the programs will feature performances by artists from the June 20-27 – 68th Annual Friends University of Hawaii’s Statewide Cultural of the Library of Hawaii (FLH) Extension Program. Booksale, McKinley High School While all of our Summer Reading Cafeteria. Title Sponsor: Hawaii Programs have an overall theme of State Federal Credit Union. Choose “Heroes,” each program has its own special from more than 150,000 books; new theme: merchandise added daily. Proceeds • Children (Pre-kindergarteners benefit the Hawaii State Public Library through children entering grade 6 this System. For more information, visit: fall) – Every Hero Has a Story invites www.friendsofthelibraryofhawaii.org children to discover the “superheroes” or call 536-4174. See Join Our Summer Reading Programs, page 3 2 • Holo I Mua • June 2015 Library Services and Technology HSPLS Summer Act, administered in Hawaii by Featured Artists the State Librarian. Reading Programs’ Mahalo to our Event Participants: Perform at Libraries HONOLULU Family, Jamba Juice, Sponsors Da Andagi Guy, Kamehameha ahalo to our 2015 HSPLS Publishing, Bishop Museum, and Summer Reading Programs’ Polynesian Voyaging Society. sponsors: The Friends of the M Library of Hawaii, Hawaii State Federal Credit Union, HEI Charitable Foundation, Meadow he Hawaii State Public Library Gold Dairies, HMS Host, Hansen System will present special Distribution Group, DFS Hawaii, Hawaii Award performances by featured Roberts Hawaii, Toshiba Business T artists during our 2015 Summer Solutions, The Harry & Jeanette Winners’ Books @ Reading Programs (SRPs), courtesy Weinberg Foundation, National of the Friends of the Library of Football League Charities, Aloha your Library Hawaii and their year-round sponsors. United Way, The Islander Group, Nyla Fujii-Babb, one of First Hawaiian Bank and local ongratulations Hawaii’s premier storytellers, will Friends Chapters. to two of the present “Hawaiian Heroes: Past Corporate sponsors include top winners and Present” at selected libraries Hawaii Pizza Hut, McDonald’s C of the recent statewide. Her stories will feature Restaurants of Hawaii, First 2015 Ka Palapala Hawaiian heroes including Maui, Insurance Company of Hawaii, Po‘okela (“excellent Punia, Laka, Ikua Purdy, and Duke HouseMart Ace Hardware and or exemplary Kahanamoku. In addition to being a HouseMart Ben Franklin Crafts, manuscript”) Awards storyteller, Fujii-Babb has been an HONOLULU Family, Frito-Lay of show: “The Red Headed-Hawaiian” artistic director, puppeteer and actress Hawaii, Starbucks Coffee Company, (Mutual Publishing) by Rudy Puana, for more than 20 years, and is a Wholesale Unlimited and Diamond M.D. and Chris McKinney who retired HSPLS Children’s Librarian. Bakery. In addition, these programs won the Best Book in Literature Greywolf, a Native American are funded in part by the U.S. category, and “No Mākou ka medieval armorer, will offer “Heroes Institute of Museum and Library Mana: Liberating the of the Classic Era” and “Women Services under the provisions of the Nation” (Kamehameha Warriors of Asia” at selected Library Services and Technology Act, Publishing) by libraries statewide. Greywolf, who administered in Hawaii by the State Kamanamaikalani has more than 20 years of weapons Librarian. Beamer who captured smithing experience, will focus Performing artists from the the top prize, The on heroes and feature authentic Statewide Cultural Extension Samuel M. Kamakau handcrafted weapons and antiques, Program are co-sponsored by the Award. and period costumes. University of Hawaii’s Outreach Many HSPLS libraries have Ronald McDonald, the official College, the Hawaii State Foundation copies of these books in their mascot of McDonald’s Restaurants, on Culture and the Arts and the collections that patrons may borrow: will present “It’s Book Time!,” a National Endowment for the Arts. “The Red Headed-Hawaiian” (H B fun-filled interactive performance Mahalo to our Super Hero Puana Pu) and “No Mākou ka Mana: featuring a creative blend of music, Bon Dance sponsors: Hawaii Pizza Liberating the Nation” (H 996.902 Be). magic, and games to reinforce the Hut, McDonald’s Restaurants of The Hawaii Book Publishers idea that reading is fun, and books Hawaii, First Insurance Company of Association (HBPA) conducts this play an important part of everyday Hawaii, HouseMart Ace Hardware annual awards program to rec-ognize life. McDonald’s Restaurants of and HouseMart Ben Franklin Crafts, the finest books published in Hawaii Hawaii is sponsoring this special Frito-Lay of Hawaii, Starbucks during the previous year and to honor event for children of all ages at 14 Coffee Company, Wholesale individuals involved in their creation. selected Oahu libraries. Unlimited, Diamond Bakery, The HBPA sponsors these awards as Other special performers and Islander Group, First Hawaiian Bank, part of its public outreach effort to presenters will be featured at selected and the event is funded in part by the enhance the recognition of book libraries. U.S. Institute of Museum and Library publishing as an industry in Hawaii All children must be accompa- Services under the provisions of the and support local literacy. nied by a parent or caregiver. Holo I Mua • June 2015 • 3 Contact the hosting library if a sign Library, and as a librarian in the Hawaii language interpreter or other special Former State State Library’s former Research and accommodation is needed: on Oahu, Evaluation Services Section. two weeks in advance; on Neighbor Librarian Bart Kane Kane is survived by wife Elaine Visionary who Transformed HSPLS Murphy, daughter Leah; stepsons Islands, three weeks in advance. For a complete list of programs Kevin Murphy and Erin Murphy; sisters Hawaii’s longest- and performers, visit www. Kacey Obremski and Kerry Ellis; four serving State grandchildren; a nephew and nieces. librarieshawaii.org/summerreading Librarian Bart Kane, or call your local library for their who was known as a program schedule. visionary for Hawaii’s public libraries, Ask A Librarian died May 11 of liver By Hawaii State Library-Telephone Super Hero Bon Dance Kicks cancer at his home Reference and Information Staff off Summer Reading, in Seal Beach, Calif. from front page He was 69. Q: HELP, I forgot my PIN (Personal During his 16-year term from Identification Number)! ancestors, who are heroes as well! May 1982 to June 1998, Kane sought See an Okinawan Taiko Drum to bring about change during tough A: By default, PINs are set to be Performance by Chinagu Eisa economic times, fought hard for his the last 4 digits of a patron’s phone employees’ rights, and transformed the number (home, mobile or business). Hawaii, a Children’s Japanese Dance Hawaii State Public Library System Troupe Performance by Hanayagi (HSPLS), the only statewide public To protect patron identities and for Mitsusumi Dance Group, and library system in the nation, from the security purposes, staff are unable experience Magic by the Amazing old card catalog system to the new to provide that information through Alan Arita from noon until 2 p.m. digital system. email or phone. If you continue to Star Wars characters of the State Librarian Stacey Aldrich met have problems with your PIN, please Pacific Outpost of the 501st Legion Bart when he became the Director of come to any public library with your the Prince George’s County Memorial library card and photo identification to Library System in Maryland. “He was verify or change your PIN. thoughtful and visionary. It was clear he had a passion for serving the public through great library service.