Purpose & Problem Purpose: To identify the information needs

of students taking Ilokano Program courses and to assess if the the Ilokaniana collection Hamilton Library fulfills those needs

Problem: difficulty in providing materials to students inquiring about various Ilokano topics

Setting: Hamilton Library & the Ilokano Language and LiteratureProgram

(about 543 items in the Ilokaniana collection)

Importance of This Research

Support Ilokano Program curriculum

Support Ilokano Studies as an academic field

UH meeting its mission on multiculturalism

Linguistic and Cultural Preservation Counter the effects of globalization, and

marginalization in the Philippines and Hawai‘i

Instill pride and self-worth and aid in the decolonization process

Literature Review Libricide: “regime sponsored, ideologically

driven destruction of books and libraries” (Knuth 2003)

Critical theory: a framework to liberate and empower colonized and/or disenfranchised

Transformative and community-based libraries (Riedler & Eryaman 2010)

Community-generated collections: Communities are the authorities of the subject matter

Community informatics: application of information and communications technology (ICT) to enable and empower community processes (Gurstein 2007)

Methodology- Research Questions

1. What are the information needs of students in the Ilokano Program…

a. that are for educational purposes (i.e., meeting assignments, research papers), according to students and faculty?

b. That are for the students’ personal and cultural understanding?

2. What is the suitability of the UH Philippine collection to fulfilling the students’ information needs?

3. Are there online materials suitable for students’ research, assignments and personal interests?

4. What is the status of Hamilton Library working with the Ilokano Program or the Ilokano community to create “community-generated” collections?

5. How do students view Ilokano materials as a tool for their cultural understanding?

Methodology-Case Study

Syllabus analysis

Analysis of library-generated data (circulation and interlibrary loan statistics and query logs)

Interviews of students and faculty from the Ilokano Program and Philippine Specialist Librarian Domain analysis

Summary of Findings

Students majoring/minoring in Ilokano for personal reasons

Low suitability of Ilokaniana collection

Summary of Findings, con’t

Low suitability High cost of publication Lack of infrastructure for international sales

and access of academic work Hamilton Library’s Philippine Specialist

Librarian position is part-time

Preference of print and audio-visual materials over online

Community-generated collection feasible

Students view the Ilokano materials as tool for their cultural understanding

Conclusion Insufficient production of knowledge to

benefit the community Expansion of Ilokaniana and Amianan Studies Ilokanos make up 90% of Filipinos in Hawai‘i

Need to articulate a demand for more Ilokaniana materials

Partnerships to help create more materials and have them accessible to the public