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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 at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University) Online, Summer, 2020
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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 Storm's article in WestPac News: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Law Library: Library Workshops Prove Popular.

Looking for something spooky to read? can't get spookier than: These Book Covers Have Been Judged: Anthropodermic Bibliopegy, or Books Bound in Human Skin WSR School of Law Library blob post.

Read "The Book Doctor’s are In!" in Kolekole, Hawaii Library Association Newsletter, pg.12.

Check out this blog post on the mysterious things you can find inside book covers- Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover(s).
...And check out the blog I wrote for the WSR School of Law Library!

Completed course on care of wooden artifacts with Elizabeth Kent (Daughter of well-known woodturning artist, Ron Kent.

I was a guest on the Read em and Weep podcast!-
​August 2018: Check out the 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 was on the William S. Richardson School of Law Library Art Show Committee for Boundaries (2017), Currents (2018), and Na'au Pono (2019)and the Marketing and Evaluation Committee (2018).

Storm's and Catherine Bye's display on the Nuremberg trials at the Law School Library October, 2017.
Storm and Keiko Okuhara also completed a Law Shool Lobby display for December, 2017 for “International Human Rights Day.”

Check out Storm's profile on ALA's GLRBT Round-Table

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

​Storm attended Rare Book School  on a Fellowship in June- 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 recently became a Technical Support Specialist for the William S. Richardson School of Law Library.

Professional Affiliations

I presented for the Hawaii Library Association Conference, November 2018: "Dystopian Futures: Murder, Genealogy Databases, DNA, Ethnicity and Privacy."  In November of 2016 I presented on a panel about the Hawai‘i Pacific Chapter of the Special Library Association's (SLA) at the Hawai‘i Library Association's annual conference in Hilo, Hawaii.   Our topic is "Small Resources, Big Impact: Maximizing the impact of Outreach and Collaboration."  I presented "Fake News: Responses and Responsibilities of Tribal Libraries," in October 2017 and I presented  "Adding Context to Historical Sites: There's An App for That" in 2016 at the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM) Conference.  In June, 2016 attended Rare Book School via an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) fellowship.  I also attended the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) in Florida as a part of the IMLS fellowship.  

I served on the Hawai’i Museum Association’s Digital Programs Committee (presented at the annual conference in 2015) and was the Secretary for the Special Library Association's Hawaii Pacific Chapter 2015-2017.  I am now a Director for the Association of Hawaii Archivists.  I am also active with the American Library Association, the Society of American Archivists, the National Genealogical Society, the Bibliographical Society of America, the Hawai‘i Library Association and the Honolulu County Genealogical Society.  In October, 2015 I became provisionally certified through the  Academy of Certified Archivists and in January, 2016 I became certified as a Digital Archives Specialist through the Society of American Archivists. 
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Research & Course Work

I finished my (ALA-accredited) MLISc degree with an archives certificate at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM) in December 2014.  As an MLISc student I completed course work in archives management, cataloging, collection development, intellectual freedom, government documents, preservation, conservation, rare book librarianship, indigenous librarianship and library management.

I completed an archival conservation practicum- click here to view a summary of the  portfolio

Go here to see a complete list of my course work and samples of the projects:

Student Associations

Served as Vice-President for the student chapter of the Society of American Archivists (organizing events, service projects and a lecture series).  I also served as a chair on the Ho’okele Na’auao Conference on indigenous librarianship with Na Hawai'i 'Imi Loa, and was a member of the American Library Association’s student chapter.

Ruth Horie Video for the SLA: 

Conference Presentations

Presentation for the Hawaii Library Association Conference, November 2018: "Dystopian Futures: Murder, Genealogy Databases, DNA, Ethnicity and Privacy."

Presentation for the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM) Conference in October 2017: "Fake News: Responses and Responsibilities of Tribal Libraries."
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Presentation for the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM) Conference in October 2016: "Adding Context to Historical Sites: There's An App for That."

Presentation for Hawaii Museum Association Conference in April 2015: 
"Augmented Reality: A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words"
PPT  PDF

Presented poster for the Special Libraries Association Student Chapter- 2013 and Association of Hawaii Archivists 2014 Conference- "Dating Early Photographs" 
Presented poster for Hawaii Library Association 2014 Conference "From the Vault to the Street: Outreach Using Augmented Reality."

Conference Attendance

2019 Attended the Library 2.019 Emerging
          Technology conference offered by SJSU
2019 Attended and helped organize  
          Association of Hawaii Archivists Annual
          Conference, Kihei, HI
2018  Presented "Dystopian Futures: Murder, 
           Genealogy Databases, DNA, Ethnicity and 
           Privacy." at Hawaii Library Association
           (HLA) Conference, Honolulu, HI
2018   Attended and helped organize Assoc. of  
            Hawaii Archivists Annual conference  
            Kahului, Maui
2017   Attended Hawaii Library Assoc., HI
2017   Presented at ATALM, in NM
2016   Presented at Hawaii Library Assoc., Hilo,
            HI
2016   Presented at ATALM in AZ
2016   Rare Books and Manuscripts Annual  
            conference- received fellowship, UVA, VA
2016   Hawaii Library Association, HI
2015   American Library Association Annual  
​            Conference, San Francisco, CA
2015   Hawaii Museum Association Conference  
            (presented on a panel), HI
2014    Hawaii Library Association Annual 
             conference (Presented poster), HI
2013   Received funding from ATALM and the
            UHM  Graduate Student Organization to  
            attend the International  Conference of 
             Indigenous Archives, Libraries,  and  
             Museums in NM

Resources

Storm's Art at famishedartist.com
Storm's literary travels

Service Learning