{"id":13706,"date":"2013-01-31T14:54:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T00:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=13706"},"modified":"2020-12-10T14:46:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T00:46:41","slug":"bigger-better-bookstore-at-uh-hilo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/01\/31\/bigger-better-bookstore-at-uh-hilo\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigger, better bookstore at <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/If0uTtKrypY\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The evolution of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at Hilo continues. The latest addition is a four million dollar bookstore that opened in the spring 2013 semester. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Twenty percent of the Hilo population is now students studying at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> and we need a bookstore that is big enough and modern enough to reflect what their needs are,&rdquo; said <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo Chancellor <strong>Donald Straney<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>The new bookstore serves both <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo and nearby <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Community College, which has a combined enrollment of over 7,000 students. It is nearly double the size of the old location at 6,500 square feet, and offers a lot more than just textbooks, school and art supplies, logo apparel and accessories, computers, software and electronics. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have a lounge area where people can eat and study,&rdquo; said Hilo Bookstore manager <strong>Jason Tanaka<\/strong>. &ldquo;Computer kiosks where students can use free internet as well as the entire building itself has free Wi-Fi.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&#8217;s beautiful,&rdquo; said <strong>Kristin Hardy<\/strong>, a <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo student. &ldquo;I think they did an awesome job of it. It is so much more open and I like how they are updating things on campus.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It looks great compared to how it used to look,&rdquo; said <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Community College student <strong>Patrick Garcia<\/strong>. &ldquo;It looks way better, all the nice stuff in here, it\u2019s just way better than how it used to be.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Not only is it a serious upgrade from the old bookstore, it&#8217;s in a much more convenient location. The new bookstore is connected to Campus Center and the school\u2019s cafeteria. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The old bookstore was hard to find,&rdquo; said <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Community College student <strong>Rochelle Koi<\/strong>. &ldquo;It was kind of below everything. This is much more open.&rdquo; The Hilo Bookstore is also open to the general public. <\/p>\n<p>The new bookstore is just the latest addition to the campus as construction continues on more student housing, the College of Hawaiian Language and the student services building, along with other plans for projects like a new building for the School of Pharmacy. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We were originally a branch campus, a small start-up operation, and we have evolved beyond that,&rdquo; said Straney. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest addition at <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Hilo is a four million dollar, 6,500 square foot bookstore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[61,460,14,9],"class_list":["post-13706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-uh-bookstore","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13706"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132279,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13706\/revisions\/132279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}