Hawaii Library Association

{{short description|Professional association for librarians in Hawai'i}}

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The Hawaiʻi Library Association (HLA) is a professional organization for Hawaii's librarians and library workers created "to promote library service and librarianship in Hawai'i." It is headquartered in Honolulu, Hawai'i. The Hawai'i Library Association was organized at a meeting of 20 county librarians on January 16–17, 1922.{{cite news |title=Library Association Has Informal Meeting |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/259240445/ |access-date=26 January 2020 |work=The Honolulu Advertiser |issue=12,711 |date=March 5, 1922 |location=Honolulu, HI}} Clara Hemenway, director of the University of Hawaiʻi Library was the first president.{{cite book | author=American Library Association | title=Bulletin of the American Library Association | publisher=American Library Association | issue=v. 17 | year=1923 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BgzzAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA373 | access-date=2020-01-26 | page=373}}{{cite news |title=Margaret Newman Wins New Honor Among Librarians |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/555863552 |access-date=26 January 2020 |work=Hawaii Tribune-Herald |volume=II|issue=19 |date=March 11, 1924 |location=Hilo, HI}} The association's first informal meeting was in 1922; Margaret Newman was the first elected president at their first official meeting in 1924. HLA became a chapter of the American Library Association at that same meeting, in March 1924.{{cite web | title=About | website=Hawai'i Library Association | url=http://hawaiilibraryassociation.weebly.com/about.html | access-date=2020-01-26}}

HLA publishes the HLA Newsletter (first published in 1943 as the News Bulletin), the Hawai‘i Library Association Journal (starting in 1944), and Current Hawaiiana. HLA's Children and Youth Section sponsors the annual Nēnē Award, a children's book award selected by Hawaii's elementary and middle school children.{{cite web | title=R.E.A.D. for NENE | website=nene.k12.hi.us | date=2011-07-26 | url=http://nene.k12.hi.us/history.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726162455/http://nene.k12.hi.us/history.html | archive-date=2011-07-26 | url-status=dead | access-date=2020-01-26}}