Fall 2026 E Hoʻomau Graduate Internship is accepting applications!

We are accepting applications for the 2026 Fall Semester E Hoʻomau Graduate Internship! Please see the information below to learn more.

Internship Type: On-site
Timeframe: August 24, 2026 – December 4, 2026; Renewal possible for Spring 2027
Work Schedule: 250 Hours (Approx. 16-17 hours/week)
Stipend Amount: $6,500

ʻUluʻulu: The Henry Ku‘ualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive of Hawaiʻi and the James and Abigail Campbell Library at the University of Hawaiʻi–West Oʻahu, in cooperation with The Hawaiian Legacy Foundation, are seeking a student to participate in the E Hoʻomau Graduate Student Internship. ʻUluʻulu: The Henry Kuʻualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive is Hawaiʻi’s official state archive for moving images dedicated to the care, preservation, and digitization of film and videotape related to the history and culture of Hawaiʻi. The James and Abigail Campbell Library is committed to providing user-centered service to meet the information needs of the University of Hawaiʻi – West Oʻahu students, faculty, staff, and the general community. The Hawaiian Legacy Foundation, established by Eddie and Myrna Kamae, is committed to documenting, preserving, and perpetuating the cultural heritage of Hawaiʻi through music, film and video, educational programs, community outreach, and archival work. The foundation released the online Eddie Kamae Songbook: A Musical Journey and has completed, in partnership with ʻUluʻulu, the digitization of raw footage from ten documentaries. ʻUluʻulu and the James and Abigail Campbell Library are partners in preserving and showcasing the Kamae Archive to the wider community.

Mary Kawena Pukui, one of Eddie Kamae’s most influential teachers, always reminded him, “Hoʻomau Eddie, hoʻomau.” Continue. Do it for the children so it will live forever. The purpose of the E Hoʻomau Internship is to allow a student of merit who is committed to the preservation of Hawaiian culture, music, and history to acquire practical experience in processing, digitizing, and promoting a multimedia archival collection involving papers, photographs, and audiovisual materials. Eddie and Myrna Kamae were responsible for
fifteen albums of genre-defining Hawaiian music, ten award-winning documentaries, and a curriculum for K-12 learners for over fifty years. The Hawaiian Legacy Foundation archive contains the raw footage from all ten documentaries and unfinished film projects, audio recordings of Hawaiian music, thousands of photographs, and papers ranging from original lyrics and translations, scores and arrangements, notebooks and notecards, treatments and scripts, production notes, interview transcripts with kūpuna, press materials, curriculum, and much more.

The E Hoʻomau Internship will be hosted on-site at the University of Hawaiʻi-West Oʻahu.

Internship activities include opportunities in:

• Assisting in the archival processing and cataloging of papers, photographs,
  audiovisual materials, and born digital media
• Digitizing paper and photographic materials
• Remediating archival documents to ensure they follow accessibility standards
• Creating digital records of material in an online repository
• Quality control of digitized audiovisual materials
• Assisting with shipments of audiovisual materials to/from digital preservation labs
• Assisting with the promotion of archival materials through social media content creation, including editing videos

ELIGIBILITY:
Applicants must be students currently enrolled in a graduate program in the University of Hawaiʻi System at the time of appointment. They must be interested in libraries, archives, and preservation and/or Hawaiian music, language, history, and/or culture.

TO APPLY:

Visit http://go.hawaii.edu/ihG by July 12, 2026 at 11:59 PM