Ruth Horie: An Oral History Biography and Feminist Analysis

dc.contributor.advisor Wertheimer, Andrew
dc.contributor.author Shaindlin, Valerie Brett
dc.contributor.department Library and Information Science
dc.date.accessioned 2019-05-28T20:07:49Z
dc.date.available 2019-05-28T20:07:49Z
dc.date.issued 2018-12
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/62495
dc.subject Library science
dc.subject History
dc.subject Women's studies
dc.subject cataloging
dc.subject Hawaii
dc.subject intersectional feminism
dc.subject Japanese American biography
dc.subject oral history
dc.subject Yonsei
dc.title Ruth Horie: An Oral History Biography and Feminist Analysis
dc.type Thesis
dcterms.abstract This 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.
dcterms.description M.L.I.Sc. Thesis. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 2018.
dcterms.extent 248 pages
dcterms.language eng
dcterms.publisher University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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local.identifier.alturi http://dissertations.umi.com/hawii:10078
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