ALU LIKE

With its grant, Alu Like, Inc. will provide access to its Native Hawaiian Library (NHL) resource materials from four library sites on three islands and globally from Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library. Main library services in Honolulu include resource materials in Hawaiian and English, reference services, storytelling for children, family literacy, summer reading, a books-by-mail program, assistance in basic-skills learning for adults and young adults, genealogy workshops, homework assistance, and book launches. Three satellite sites provide access to library services in Miloli’i, Hawaii; Kaunakakai, Molokai; and Kaka’ako and Papakolea, Oahu. The NHL Hawaiian language materials collection, including Ka Ho‘oilina Hawaiian language journal, archival Hawaiian language newspapers, and Hawaiian language dictionaries and other reference materials, all Web-accessible, provide much-needed support to the Hawaiian language immersion schools and to those who work in and with the Hawaiian language.