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Early life and education. Allyn was born on April 15, 1861, in Wellington, Ohio. [1] Allyn graduated from Hiram College in 1882 and became a public schoolteacher. She then earned a master's degree in Latin from Columbia University in 1902. After working in the Iowa State Industrial School's library, [1] Allyn decided to study library science at ...
manoa.hawaii.edu. The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa[a][b] is a public land-grant research university in Mānoa, Honolulu, on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. It is the flagship campus of the University of Hawaiʻi system and houses the main offices of the system. Most of the campus occupies the eastern half of the mouth of Mānoa Valley, with the ...
The history of Hawaii is the story of human settlements in the Hawaiian Islands. Polynesians arrived sometime between 940 and 1200 AD. [1][2] Kamehameha I, the ruler of the island of Hawaii, conquered and unified the islands for the first time, establishing the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1795. [3] The kingdom became prosperous and important for its ...
The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents.Topics of interest include accessibility of the collection, acquisition of materials, arrangement and finding tools, the book trade, the influence of the physical properties of the different writing materials, language distribution, role in education, rates of literacy, budgets, staffing, libraries for ...
The Card Catalog at the Library of Congress. A library catalog (or library catalogue in British English) is a register of all bibliographic items found in a library or group of libraries, such as a network of libraries at several locations. A catalog for a group of libraries is also called a union catalog.
Herbert Kawainui Kāne (June 21, 1928 – March 8, 2011) was a Hawaiian historian and artist. He is considered one of the principal figures in the renaissance of Hawaiian culture in the 1970s. His work focused on the seafaring traditions of the ancestral peoples of Hawaiʻi. Kāne played a key role in demonstrating that Hawaiian culture arose ...
Hawaii is a novel by James A. Michener [3] published in 1959, the year that Hawaii became the 50th U.S. state. It has been translated into 32 languages. [4]The historical correctness of the novel is high, although the narrative about the early Polynesian inhabitants is based more on folklore than anthropological and archaeological sources.
Pictures of Paradise - 1936; The Rest of the Road – 1937; Drifter's Gold – 1939; Floridays – 1941 [44] noted as a nice book to read while at home in 2020 [45] Pilot Bails Out – 1943, reviewed by the New York Times [46] Today is Here – 1946; Mostly California – 1948; A Grand Time Living – 1950; Joy is an Inside Job – 1953; Hawaii ...