Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 4, Number 4, 1 April 1987 — Main Library Has Hawaiian Resource Person [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Main Library Has Hawaiian Resource Person

Have you visited the Pacific section of the Hawaii State main library recently? If you haven't, then you're missing out on the services of a good resource person in Hawaiian Caroline Bernadette Hurley who was assigned just a few short months ago to the Hawaiian Pacific Collection section. She would like to see more Hawaiians eome into her section and tell her of their needs on anything Hawaiian. Miss Hurley also wants more kupuna contact "because without them we only have therbooks." "I haven't seen too many Hawaiians or kupuna. I am updating our bibliography on basic Hawaiiana and I need their kokua. It's their history," she declared. "There is so mueh we have in our section. There are resource materials for reference work, genealogy and other matters," Miss Hurley noted. She attended Leeward Community College and the University of Hawaii at Manoa where she got a Bachelor of Arts degree in Hawaiian language and a Master's in library studies.

Before gaining those credentials, she dropped out of the 10th grade at Waipahu High School in 1977 "not because I was stupid but I felt I wasn't gettihg my educational needs fulfilled." Miss Hurley later attended the Waipahu Community School for Adults for her GED (General Equivalency Degree) and got her diploma one month before her graduting class at Waipahu High School had she not dropped out. She is a daughter of Benjamin and Caroline (Rapoza) Hurely. He is originally from Kekaha, Kauai, and Mrs. Hurley hails from Olaa, Hawaii. Another daughter Candice C. Hurley, is the recording and corresponding secretary for the Princess Kaiulani Hawaiian Civic Club. She is also secretary for the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs. recording and corresponding secretary for the Princess Kaiulani Hawaiian Civic Club. She is also secretary for the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs. Caroline Hurley is a Librarian II working through the Native Hawaiian Library Project sponsored by Alu Like ine. — Kenny Haina.

Caroline Bernadette Hurley