Banned Books Week 2025 : Celebrate the freedom to read! 🩵 #Libraries #ILoveLibraries #LibrariesAreForEveryone #BeTheLoveWeWantToSeeInTheWorld
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Kaua`i Half Marathon 2025 in the books! ✅💚 thankful to finish with our friends✨🙏✨
things I’ve learned: don’t die (listen to your body), we’re lucky to be alive, don’t drink too much beer at the end✨😍✨ #Running #KauaiHalfMarathon #LoveAndHugsToTheWorld ps top 10 for my age group wahoo!! ✨🌟
Screen shot of Asian American woman smiling to the camera, dress in a suit jacket and pink top. The background includes greenery accented with white tiare flowers. There is a print that reads ‘Jenny Silbiger Begins Term as President of AALL’
Mahalo @aallnet.bsky.social and the Hawai’i State Judiciary for announcing this ✨🩵✨Looking forward to working with our #AALL colleagues and elevating our legal information profession in the coming year! #LawLibrarians #LawLibraries #ILoveLawLibraries #AALL
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A group of people smiling in front of the rainbow painted West Maui Bookmobile
Two pictures: top pic show children engaged in story time crafting; bottom show children and caregivers watching as a volunteer demo an art activity. Text on the side describes partnership between the bookmobile and the courts.
Picture shows adults working on computers at a digital literacy class; text describes the bookmobile activities and services.
Cover of the Hawaii Library Association newsletter with the title Kolekole displayed across a bright pink tropical flower.
Sharing our HSPLS West Maui Bookmobile & Hawaii State Judiciary partnership one year anniversary coverage in the summer issue of _KoleKole_ 🩷 #Libraries #Librarians #ILoveLibraries #LibrariesAreForEveryone #BeTheLoveWeWantToSeeInTheWorld #Maui #Lahaina
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A group of Quakers are marching more than 300 miles to demonstrate against the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants. Organizers of the march say their protest seeks to show solidarity with migrants and other groups that are being targeted by the administration.
A moment of peace, presence, and awe 💚 #Presence #Peace #Healing #WeCanDoHardThings #BeTheLoveWeWantToSeeInTheWorld #Honu #GreenSeaTurtle #Hawaii #Oahu
A picture of a fairy colored by a little girl. A message reads ‘,thank you for letting me sit by my mom you are nice and beautiful. I hope you have a nice flight.‘ and also ‘my name is k… c…’ and ‘I am 6.’ There are two small heart emojis hiding the little girls full name.
A meme with mountains and the phrase: you know who’s going through a lot right now? Literally everyone. Just be kind. Attributed to @tinybuddha
This sweet girl 💗💖😍 gave me a beautiful gift 🥰 for just a small simple gesture 🥰 #Kindness #Love #Aloha #Travel
A much needed balm to the soul - and friendly reminder to myself that no act is too small to have an impact on any given moment 🥹 (even when your own heart is hurting) ❤️🩹
Happy Aloha Sunday mental
health run day ✨🌺✨❤️🩹✨
#Latergram #Running #GetOutside #RunForYourLife #Hawaii #Oahu #WindwardOahu #LoveAndHugsToTheWorld #Ekolu
Hawai`i showing up with free speech today ✨🌺✨
#Oahu #Hawaii #FreeSpeech #Democracy #StandForDemocracy #SaveDemocracy
#LoveAndHugsToTheWorld #HandsOff #NeverGiveUp #BeTheLoveWeWantToSeeInTheWorldq
Four people, two men, and two women, standing together facing the camera, all four smiling, each wearing lei. Behind them a presentation display reads: “Laws Make a Difference: and so can you!”
A slightly more zoomed-out picture of an asian women speaking while standing at a podium, her hand raised to make a loose fist while talking into the microphone. A presentation display screen is partially shown, it the title stating: “Legal issue: same-sex marriage” as well as a description of the 2013 US supreme court Windsor case.
An asian women speaks while standing at a podium, her hand holding the microphone as she speaks. A presentation display screen is partially shown, it the title stating: “Legal issue: same-sex marriage” as well as a description of the 2013 US supreme court Windsor case.
A picture of the full speakers panel; an asian woman standing at the podium speaking, a display screen with ‘Mahalo’ at the top, and the three panelists from the first picture seated. In the foreground are the backs of people’s heads, as they are seated in the audience, facing the panelists .
Laws make a difference: and so can you ! ✨🌺✨ Civics is alive!
And your (our) voices matter. ✨❤️🩹✨💙✨
#Libraries #Civics #CivicsEducation #Librarians #LawLibrarians #LibraryWorkers #LibrariesAreForEveryone #ILoveLibraries #LetsBeTheLoveWeWantToSeeInTheWorld
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Headline from the New York Times that reads ‘World’s largest ‘baby exporter’ admits to adoption fraud.’
Headline from the associated press that reads “ South Korea, truth commission says government responsible for fraud and abuse in foreign adoptions”
A complicated history re: transracial/foreign adoption from Korea ✨🇰🇷✨❤️🩹✨💔✨
The relationship to government document access & u.s. federal legislation (esp the word choices therein) enabled this whole situation to run off the rails. #ItsOkNotToBeOk
#BeTheLoveWeWantToSeeInTheWorld
A picture of statement from the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) standing with libraries across the country, calling for a reinstatement of funding for the Institute of Museums and Library Services (IMLS). IMLS supports AALL member libraries; AALL member libraries also partner with IMLS funded libraries to provide access to legal information and more to the general public.
We stand with libraries across the country, our countless colleagues & friends, who provide critical info svcs and resources to all who enter their doors. #Libraries #LawLibraries #LibrariesAreForEveryone #Librarians #LawLibrarians #LibraryWorkers #ILoveLibraries #LoveYourLibrary
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Screenshot of the front page of the chicago Tribune featuring the headline ‘hundreds gather in daily Plaza Tuesday to protest Trump in pro – democracy rally’. Featured are two women cheering on the crowd, one taking a picture with her mobile phone, one holding a peace sign as the protesters walk by carrying signs to ‘support children Ukraine, Medicaid, farmers environments of rights, trans rights, and cyber security.’
Witnessing Chicago exercise their first amendment right to free speech ✨⭐️✨💙✨ They don’t mess around in the Windy City! #Protest #FreeSpeech #Democracy #StandForDemocracy
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Embrace joy while we can ✨😍✨❤️🩹✨ joy can be an antidote — an act of resistance in the face of fear. And share grace and thankfulness when it comes our way✨⭐️✨ #Hawaii #Oahu #NorthShore #Surf #Surfing #Beach #ILoveSurfing #Ocean #PacificOcean
#LoveAndHugsToTheWorld #Joy #Thankful #Love
Meaningful access to legal information is at the center of an informed & educated society, integral to ATJ efforts, & intersects w/every aspect of the legal profession. ✨⭐️✨ ⚖️✨ #LegalInformation #AccessToJustice #Librarian #LawLibrarian #LawLibraries #ILoveLibraries
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Aerial view of Diamondhead crater, looking down from the plane. The plane’s wing is also visible from the window.
Five library staff stand in front of the law library sign.
Six Judiciary staff are smiling into the camera in a selfie within the law library.
Aerial view of Maui is a plane is coming in for landing. You can see the blue ocean as well as the green islands with the mountains in the back.
Daytripping to Maui to train our Hon Joseph E Cardoza Law Library support staff ✨⭐️✨ it’s all fun and games until the water main breaks and then we’re kicked out ! 🤣🤪😱🫣 All is well—glad everyone’s safe and healthy! #Libraries #LawLibraries #ILoveLibraries #LibrariesAreForEveryone #Hawaii #Oahu #Maui
Hawai’i showing up for #50501 exercising #FreeSpeech #Democracy #Hawaii #Oahu
#LoveAndHugsToTheWorld #PeacefulProtest
While I am so grateful living in ‘heaven’– it deeply troubles me that the opposite exists. Access to legal information is at the center of access to justice. In case anyone else is having feelings about this, you’re not alone. #AccessToJustice
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Sometimes, we just need a little nap #Honu #GreenSeaTurtle #Hawaii #Oahu #NorthShore #Beach #NapTime #Latergram
Celebrating these amazing volunteer attorneys w/our Chief Justice. Thankful
to be a small part in providing this service to the public ✨❤️✨ #AccessToJustice #LawLibraries #LibrariesAreForEveryone #ThankYou
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An asian american balances on her left leg, arms outstretched to either side, laughing and facing the camera, on the sandy beach next to the dark aqua blue of the atlantic ocean lapping the shore. It is twilight, with the puffy clouds overhead reflecting bits of pink from the setting sun, the sky sliding into grey-blue towards evening.
Just a girl at the Atlantic Ocean ✨🩵✨⭐️✨🫶✨
Happy happy new year ✨🩵✨ sharing some of our island beauty— so grateful for this beautiful ocean, the waves 🏄🏻♀️, the lovely honu swimming in the sea. ✨🫶🐢 May we bring joy, peace, and kindness into 2025 and into the days and months to come ✨🙏✨😍✨ sending love and hugs to the world! ✨🌎 🌍🌏✨
Happy happy holidays from Hawai`i ✨🎄✨❄️✨💚✨ #Latergram #MerryChristmas #HappyHolidays #Hawaii #Oahu #Surfing
Happy holiday baking 2024 with my daughters and their BFFs ✨💕✨🎄✨🥹✨🫶✨ #HolidayJoys #ChristmasJoys #GrandmasRecipes #Cookies #LoveAndHugsToTheWorld
A group of four asian women and one caucasian man, four wearing holiday headwear and one wearing a holiday pin, stand in front of a pine tree decorated with festive ribbons and shining round ornaments. It’s an interior shot, marble flooring, with two marble staircases on each side angled behind the tree and headed to the second floor. White and silver glittery garlands are hung symmetrically above, with white vertical hangings of snowflakes also hanging from the ceiling.
Happy happy holidays from the Hawai`i Supreme Court Law Library ✨🌟✨🎄✨🫶✨❄️✨ #2024
Sending you love, joy, and peace for this holiday season and beyond! #Libraries #LawLibraries #LibraryWorkers #Librarians #ILoveLibraries #LibrariesAreForEveryone
Honolulu marathon & Start to Park (10K) - ✨🏃🏻♀️✨💖✨ 1:01:25 ✨🙏✨ Love and hugs to the world! #Running #10K #IDidThatMarathonIn2022 #OneAndDone 🤣
❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🖤🩶🤍🩷❤️🩹💖💕 #TransRightsAreHumanRights #BeTheLove Our law library welcomes all patrons to use our legal resources and info services - ‘our’ folks include trans and non-binary folks = ‘us.’ Ps #FreeMomHugs from this mom to our nonbinary kids (& grown-up kids) out there in the world #ILoveYou
Diagonal view of dark blue mini-tanker custom surfboard, lying in center top up, with the pointed nose pointing to the left bottom corner; in the background are multiple surfboards standing vertically, stacked one after another, leaning against each side of the room, making thin multicolor strips like rainbows on either side. Light comes in through the sliding glass door at the end of the room, with a shadow of another stack of boards standing vertically between the blue board in the foreground and the door at the end.
Part of the white underside of the surfboard displayed, showing a thin light brown wooden stringer (stripe down the middle), with jenny’s hands and blue fingernails showing, her right hand making a peace sign, her left hand open. Her fingernails point to the custom message inscribed on the board—the first line hand written in cursive reads ‘Carl Schaper for Jenny.’ The second line is printed and reads: Love and Hugs to the World!! The third line includes the specs of the board in numbers and measurements (hard to see).
A selfie with jenny facing the camera in the bottom front left, smiling and holding her left hand making a k-drama heart (thumb and first finger crossed in a shape of a heart). An old and yellowed and surfboard lies face up in workroom on a table about 3-4 feet high. Carl Schaper stands barefoot next to the board, holding the center fin with his left hand and a pencil in his right. He is smiling and wearing reading glasses. There are white papers on the board. The interior walls are purple, the flooring put together in light gray hard foam puzzle pieces and shelves of surf repair supplies line either side of the room, including a spiral power cord that hangs down the right side of the picture.
Blue clouds and white puffy clouds take up the top half of this picture. The wave takes the bottom half. The wave is breaking, part of the blue face of the wave is visible, as white water splashes over most of it. A shadow of jenny standing on her surfboard facing the camera, back lit by the sun and whitewash, making a k-drama heart (thumb and index finger crossed to make a figure of a heart) with her left hand, her right at her side. Her legs are slightly bent as she balances on her board at the bottom of the white wash, the front half of her surfboard faces the camera and floats just above the top of the water. The foreground of the picture is ripples of the dark blue ocean.
So I did this merry christmas happy bday (a year later 🤣) prezzie to myself: a custom @schaperhawaii 🏄🏻♀️ ✨💙✨ ps they also fixed my 19 yo griffin (3d pic: Carl talking specs🤩); last pic: first drop (mahalo @otto.surf -insta)! ✨🌟✨ #LoveAndHugsToTheWorld #Thankful #HappyBirthday #MerryChristmas
Happy Thanksgiving 2024 4 mile ✨🏃🏻♀️✨❤️✨ #Hawaii #Oahu #Run #Running #Thankful #LoveAndHugsToTheWorld
Selfie of four women with trees and the sour shore of o`ahu peeking behind them, from l to r: Hawaii library association past-past president, past president, vice president, and president 💙
A group shot of folks standing facing away from the camera, hands stretched into the air as branches in the yoga ‘tree pose’, inside a pavilion; can see a small strop of outside as well as thin blue line of ocean peeking through in the background
A water canal view of kewalo harbor leading out into the pacific ocean, a silhouette of a palm tree sticking in from the left, it’s dusk as the sun sets in the distance behind palm trees and buildings; the sky light blue, gray clouds with and various shades of light orange and pinks reflecting the setting sun’s rays
A room full of people gathered around long rectangle tables facing away from the camera , one table jn the forefront decorated with a green and white table runner and highlighted with faerie lights, plant leaves and bougainvillea; a large white screen projecting AI bots in three rows hangs in the top right, a speaker’s silhouette in the front of the room holding a microphone; outside a strip of green grass catches the sun, as well a thin bright blue stripe of the ocean, and the lighter blue sky above it, with thin trunks of trees dotting the view
Grateful to be together sharing and learning with and from our library colleagues 🌺 including this beautiful sunset and gathering by the sea; a shared experience to cherish and remember ✨💙✨ #HawaiiLibraryAssociation #Libraries #LibraryWorkers #Librarians #ILoveLibraries #LibrariesAreForEveryone
