Ruth Horie: An Oral History Biography and Feminist Analysis

dc.contributor.advisorWertheimer, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorShaindlin, Valerie Brett
dc.contributor.departmentLibrary and Information Science
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-28T20:07:49Z
dc.date.available2019-05-28T20:07:49Z
dc.date.issued2018-12
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is an oral history biography of Ruth Horie (1950- ), a Japanese American librarian in Honolulu, Hawai‘i whose work centered mainly on preserving and providing access to Native Hawaiian materials. Primarily a cataloger, Horie was one of the rare librarians who understood Hawaiian, a critically endangered language. She earned her undergraduate degree in Hawaiian Studies and two master’s degrees, in Library Studies and Linguistics, from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She worked for a decade as a reference librarian at the East-West Center and Bishop Museum, and then spent twenty-two years as a cataloger at Hamilton Library at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. The accompanying intersectional feminist analysis aims to examine the unique positionalities Horie embodied, and extract insights from her experience. Horie’s life and work turn out to be an excellent example for all librarians who wish to take a social justice stance in their careers.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/62495
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa
dc.subjectLibrary science
dc.subjectHistory
dc.titleRuth Horie: An Oral History Biography and Feminist Analysis
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.dcmiText
dcterms.descriptionM.L.I.Sc. Thesis. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 2018.
local.identifier.alturihttp://dissertations.umi.com/hawii:10078

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