First off, I hope everybody is enjoying the holiday season! It’s been very fun, but very busy for both Misty and I. You may have noticed we’ve been on a slight hiatus the last two weeks and one of the …
Happy New Year! Hau’oli Makahiki Hou!
You may have noticed a slight decrease in posts here at HBB (especially regarding our Library Tour— where we hit a bit of a snag and have not recovered). Despite failing to complete our …
Just in time for Christmas we received our gift from the Book Blogger Holiday Swap! We mentioned the items that we sent to our secret book blogger earlier in this post. And yay! this weekend we got a …
Aloha Friday! It’s time for another Book End and as it’s the holiday season, the number of literary events has tailed off quite a bit in comparison to the weekends prior. However, there are still a number of interesting book …
Thank you to everyone who entered our Holiday Book Giveaway on Twitter. We greatly appreciate all your retweets and consider you all winners in our hearts! But enough cheese and on to the drawing! The winner of this giveaway wins …
The weather has finally cooled, lights are twinkling everywhere you look and KSSK is playing non-stop holiday tunes—it’s Christmas time in Hawaiʽi! Although there’s no snow, the cozy feeling of Christmas is never lacking and the season is merrily celebrated …
There is a great sense of preservation at Kaneohe Library. When speaking with Thomas Churma, we felt that under his management the library had a strong sense of safeguarding its past by balancing it with technology of the present. There …
Help to support Hawaii’s literary community by attending one of these awesome literary/library events:
Untitled photograph by Derlyn Rhoades of Sacred Hearts Academy
Ongoing in December-
- At Kapolei Library: “Dark Clouds over Paradise: the Hawaii Internees Story,” an exhibit presented
Yay! Our Secret Santee, Sheila—who runs an awesome book blog called Journey Through Books, received our holiday package yesterday and she posted a very nice thank you message on her blog here. Sheila is an active book blogger, …
posted by M.L. Sanico
I think one of the first things we started realizing about the Hawaii State Public Library System (the only statewide public library system in the United States) is that its greatest resources are its employees. We’ve …
Moʻomanaʻo Moʻokalaleo Pūnaewele o Hawaiʻi
Moʻomanaʻo Moʻokalaleo Pūnaewele o Hawaiʻi
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