Hawaii Library Association

The Hawaiʻi Library Association (HLA) is a professional organization for Hawaii's librarians and library workers created "to promote library service and librarianship in Hawai'i." It is headquartered in Honolulu, Hawai'i. The Hawai'i Library Association was organized at a meeting of 20 county librarians on January 16–17, 1922.^[1] Clara Hemenway, director of the University of Hawaiʻi Library was the first president.^[2][3] The association's first informal meeting was in 1922; Margaret Newman was the first elected president at their first official meeting in 1924.^[3] HLA became a chapter of the American Library Association at that same meeting, in March 1924.^[4]

Hawaiʻi Library Association

Nickname	HLA
Formation	January 16, 1922; 103 years ago (1922-01-16)
Tax ID no.	99-6010067
Parent organization	American Library Association

HLA publishes the HLA Newsletter (first published in 1943 as the News Bulletin), the Hawai‘i Library Association Journal (starting in 1944), and Current Hawaiiana.^[4] HLA's Children and Youth Section sponsors the annual Nēnē Award, a children's book award selected by Hawaii's elementary and middle school children.^[5]

HLA sections

HLA has seven sections as of January, 2020.^[6]

• Administration Section
• Hawaiian Section
• Information Technology Section
• Reference and User Services Section
• School and Media Center Services Section
• Technical Services Section
• Children and Youth Services Section