Violet H. Harada
Violet H. Harada is professor emeritus at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa where she coordinated the school library specialization for the Library and Information Science Program for 20 years. She has jointly authored and edited nine books and countless articles on the instructional role of school librarians as critical partners in learning with teachers. She has also shared her work at various state, national, and international conferences. Harada is the recipient of the national Distinguished Service Award from the American Association of School Librarians. She volunteers at the Japanese Cultural Center in creating stories from interviews for The Hawai‘i Herald.
Updated December 2023
Stories from This Author
Honoring the Legacy—Arthur Ushijima
June 14, 2023 • Melvin Inamasu , Violet H. Harada
The Queen’s Health System – Fulfilling a Royal Legacy As a child growing up on Maui, Arthur Ushijima remembered his father, James Sueki, telling him that one always took care of family first. Beyond the family, his father added, “You go out and help others.” Ushijima took that advice to heart. Until his retirement in 2020, he devoted four decades of his life to health care and, for the past 30 years, has served the Hawai‘i community at the helm …
Honoring the Legacy – Warren Nishimoto
Dec. 18, 2022 • Melvin Inamasu , Violet H. Harada
Warren Nishimoto retired in 2017 after 37 years as director of the Center for Oral History at the University of Hawai‘i. During the nearly four decades of his leadership, the Center produced over 850 interviews focusing on the working class in Hawai‘i. He is quick to acknowledge that the arduous and precise work of interviewing subjects and transcribing the interviews was spearheaded by master researcher and interviewer Michiko Kodama-Nishimoto, his wife, and longtime staffers Cynthia Oshiro, who transcribed the majority …
