The Learning Commons

Please join us in welcoming Hauʻolihiwahiwa Moniz as our new full-time, tenure-track Hawaiian-Pacific Resources Librarian!

Hauʻolihiwahiwa Moniz is a Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) librarian, archivist, and social researcher who received her MLISc from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 2020 and obtained her second Master’s degree in Hawaiian Studies with a thesis on Native Hawaiian Lateral Violence and Contemporary Hawaiian Language Acquisition, also at UHM, in 2023.

For five years, she served as the Graduate Research Assistant for the Laka me Lono Resource Center, the Hawaiian Studies Library and Archive, at Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies. While there, she headed library programming and assisted in Hawaiian cultural research and collection care. Hauʻolihiwahiwa also served as the first Indigenous Initiatives Librarian at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hamilton Library’s Hawaiian and Pacific collections.

In October 2024, Hauʻolihiwahiwa joined the Leeward CC Library as a part-time Reference Librarian serving the Puʻuloa campus and Waiʻanae Moku Education Center. In this position, she provided reference services and library instruction on both campuses.

In her new position as the Hawaiian-Pacific Resources Librarian, Hauʻolihiwahiwa will serve as subject liaison to Hawaiian Studies, Pacific Studies, and ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian Language) courses and instructors. As the primary point of contact for library services at Waiʻanae Moku, she will also support the Library’s Information Literacy Program and other classroom instruction needs. She will also maintain and develop the Hawaiian-Pacific and Waiʻanae Moku Collections and future Leeward CC archives.

Hauʻolihiwahiwa can be reached at (808) 455-0390 or hmoniz@hawaii.edu. For the duration of the Learning Commons 3rd floor renovation, her office is located at the Diamond-Head C-wing portables along with other library faculty and staff.