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E Komo Mai
E Komo Mai! Welcome to East-West Research, providing research and consultation with a specialization in genealogical research, assistance with digitizing documents and preserving books and documents.
​ Should you have any questions, please fee​l free to contact East-West Research

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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 
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Recent News

News
Check out my new 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

Writing
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, 2019, 20 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.

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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 
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