{"id":8321,"date":"2024-10-25T13:36:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T23:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/?p=8321"},"modified":"2025-07-05T20:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T06:50:16","slug":"kylie-flood-named-hspls-employee-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/kylie-flood-named-hspls-employee-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Kylie Flood Named HSPLS Employee of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photo: Kylie Flood with Hawai\u02bbi State Librarian Stacey Aldrich and Governor Josh Green. Photo courtesy of Gov.Flickr.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Kylie Ka\u02bbeo Flood was honored as the Employee of the Year for the Hawai\u02bbi State Public Library System (HSPLS) at the Governor\u2019s Award Ceremony on September 24, 2024. Kylie is the Hawaiian\/ Pacific and Adult Librarian at the N\u0101n\u0101kuli Public Library. She is a 2016 alumna of the UHM LIS Program. This annual award spotlights individuals \u201cwho embody the spirit of service and commitment that make public libraries vital to the community.\u201d\u00a0 Kylie says that the award also recognizes the value of having a \u201cwonderful team\u201d at N\u0101n\u0101kuli. She is grateful for head librarian Kelsey Domingo\u2018s supportive leadership as well as the entire staff’s collaborative approach to programs and services.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was always Kylie\u2019s dream to work in her community of N\u0101n\u0101kuli. While still a student in LIS, she and her colleague Michiko Joseph, a librarian at UH West O\u02bbahu, envisioned a genealogy project that would meet the needs of the N\u0101n\u0101kuli Hawaiian Homestead community. Kylie indicated that this community represents the densest Native Hawaiian population in the state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When Kylie officially joined the library staff six years ago, the genealogy program became a reality. She said, \u201cKnowing where you come from is a very important part of Hawaiian culture.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Since 2018, Kylie has facilitated a series of workshops and meetings that deal with family research and genealogy. With support from UH West O\u02bbahu, the initiative invites a range of professionals to share their skills and knowledge with the Native Hawaiian community. According to Kylie, guests have included university students studying the land deed issues as well as historians, archivists, and cultural experts from Alu Like, Bishop Museum, and the Hawai\u02bbi State Archives. During the pandemic, the in-person presentations became virtual sessions hosted on the <\/span>HSPLS YouTube<\/span><\/a> channel. This dramatically widened the program\u2019s outreach to individuals across the state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kylie’s future plans include sponsoring webinars that feature Darcie Hind Posz, a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists. Posz has published a volume entitled <\/span>Research in Hawaii\u00a0<\/span><\/i>that focuses on \u200bresources available in-person \u200band online for those whose \u200bancestral families resided in \u200bHawai\u2018i from Kingdom to \u200bTerritory to Statehood.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo: Kylie Flood with Hawai\u02bbi State Librarian Stacey Aldrich and Governor Josh Green. Photo courtesy of Gov.Flickr. Kylie Ka\u02bbeo Flood was honored as the Employee of the Year for the Hawai\u02bbi State Public Library System (HSPLS) at the Governor\u2019s Award Ceremony on September 24, 2024. Kylie is the Hawaiian\/ Pacific and Adult Librarian at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,34,4,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-awards","category-congratulations","category-newsroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8321","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=8321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8325,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8321\/revisions\/8325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}