{"id":6231,"date":"2019-02-25T11:34:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/?p=6231"},"modified":"2025-07-05T20:53:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T06:53:38","slug":"lis-alumna-keala-richard-at-smithsonian-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/lis-alumna-keala-richard-at-smithsonian-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"LIS Alumna Keala Richard at Smithsonian Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The students, faculty, and staff of the Library &amp; Information Science program wish to offer a sincere and elated congratulations to Alumna Keala Richard, who recently became the newest member of the Smithsonian Libraries Preservation Department as a Conservation Technician! During her time in the UHM LIS program, Keala interned at the Smithsonian&#8217;s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Library and received a certificate in Archives and Special Collections.<\/p>\n<p>In a Smithsonian article about Keala, she says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe intersection in interests of my native Hawaiian history and Western culture brought me to Washington and the Smithsonian. I hope that with developing skills in library conservation I can return home to share resources and approaches to help and inspire others.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, since she has moved to Washington, Keala has discovered\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.halaunohonahawaii.org\/\">H\u0101lau Nohona Hawai\u02bbi<\/a>, the Hawaiian cultural school in Silver Spring, where she is participating in classes offered in hula, language, chant, protocols, music, and history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read more about Keala and her exciting new conservation position at the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.library.si.edu\/blog\/2019\/02\/19\/welcome-keala-richard\/\">Smithsonian website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Best wishes, Keala!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The students, faculty, and staff of the Library &amp; Information Science program wish to offer a sincere and elated congratulations to Alumna Keala Richard, who recently became the newest member of the Smithsonian Libraries Preservation Department as a Conservation Technician! During her time in the UHM LIS program, Keala interned at the Smithsonian&#8217;s Freer Gallery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,4,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-congratulations","category-newsroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6235,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6231\/revisions\/6235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}