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NOVELS

                            Once Upon a Zombie


                            Thou Shalt Kill


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​OTHER WRITINGS


Services

  
  • Retrieve scan and send resources from any Oahu cultural institution
  • Use specialized research skills to locate almost anyone or anything 
  • Recommend and assist with library technology set-up
  • Assist with secure digitization projects
  • Provide augmented reality expertise for your museum, library or archive, create dynamic exhibits
  • Consult on issues around preservation and disaster management for valuable documents and artifacts
  • Provide community workshops on conserving family heirlooms

Genealogical Research
  • Find a long lost relative
  • Decipher your DNA tests using genetic genealogy to help you find relatives
  • Create family trees 
  • Locate information and records
  • Digitize and archive
  • Conduct workshops 

News

Check out my new quarterly column about book repair in the Hawaii Library Association Newsletter, Kolekole!
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The Book Doctor "Do No Harm 2" Spring 1/31/25
The Book Doctor "Do No Harm" Fall 10/16/24
The Book Doctor "No Tears Tear Repair" Summer 5/14/24
The Book Doctor "Can You Handle It?" Spring 3/25/24

Kolekole, Hawaii Library Association Newsletter, “Philly Rare Book School: A Rare Opportunity!” Winter/Spring 2023

Courses
Storm was Awarded $3,300 scholarship from the National Endowment for the Humanities- Global Book Histories Initiative (NEH-GBHI) which I will be using July, 2021 to take Introduction to the History of Bookbinding online with Karen Limper-Herz (Lead Curator for Incunabula and Sixteenth Century Printed Books at the British Library).

This same scholarship allowed me to take Books in the Manuscript era with Raymond Clemens (Curator for Early Books and Manuscripts online through Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University) Online, Summer, 2020.

With the remaining scholarship money, I took History of Literacy at the University of Pennsylvania with Lynne Farrington (Director of Programs/Senior Curator, Special Collections, Kislak Center) and Peter Stallybrass (Annenberg Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania). June 2022
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​Writing
Article in Kolekole, Hawaii Library Association Newsletter, Spine Tingling Books, Fall, 2020

William S. Richardson School of Law Library blog post, A Red Letter Day, April, 2020

​Check out my article in WestPac News: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Law Library: Library Workshops Prove Popular

I attended the Library 2.019 Emerging Technology conference offered by SJSU 10/30/19

The Book Doctor’s are In! Fall 2019 Issue of Kolekole, Hawaii Library Association Newsletter, pg.12

Workshops
Book Making Workshop, presenters: Storm Stoker and Ellen-Rae Cachola, November, annually since 2019! an average of 15 attendees

Basic Book Repair Workshop, presenters: Storm Stoker and Ellen-Rae Cachola, October, 2019, 12 attendees

Archives
I helped process and prepare the transfer of the Dr. William W. Bartley III archive for the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, CA., 2019. Dr. Bartley was a well-known philosopher and economist and a student and biographer of Sir Karl Popper and Friedrich August Hayek. He was a professor and a prolifically published academic, writing the definitive biography on Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Completed course on the care of wooden artifacts taught by kimono redux artist, Elizabeth Kent (daughter of wood-turning artist Ron Kent) and her mother.
Storm's most recent William S. Richardson School of Law Library blog post - Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover(s).
Also check out the WSR School of Law Library blog post about my life as a book doctor!
Podcast- Read 'Em & Weep, Episode 2, "The Dark Side of Books," learn about all the ways that books can kill 😈☠️👻🔪! Storm Stoker, guest librarian, discusses anthropodermic bibliopegy.

Storm Stoker is the Technical Support Specialist at the William S. Richardson School of Law Library. She is an ACA Preliminarily Certified Archivist and received the Digital Archives Specialist Certification,  see the SAA Press Release.

Storm was a Director with the Association of Hawaii Archivists (AHA). She helped organize the 2018 and 2019 AHA annual conference in Kahalui, Maui, and in Honolulu, managed their website and organized their annual holiday party for three years.  She was also on the HLA 2018 Financial Audit Committee. She is presenting for the Hawaii Library Association Conference, November 2018: "Dystopian Futures: Murder, Genealogy Databases, DNA, Ethnicity and Privacy."

​Storm presented Fake News: Responses and Responsibilities of Tribal Libraries at ATALM, in October, 2017.

She attended Rare Book School on a Fellowship in 2016 - RBS Press Release.  

In October 2016 she presented "Adding Context to Historical Sites: There's An App for That," at the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM) Conference in Arizona. An article Storm wrote about attending ATALM was featured in Indian Life in December, 2016.  

She presented "Small Resources, Big Impact: Maximizing Outreach and Collaboration," at HLA in Hilo in November, 2016.  

Check out her profile on ALA's GLRBT round-table

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