The Hawaii State Library does not have any copies of Nora Okja Keller's critically acclaimed novel "Comfort Woman" and was not able to tell me if any are on order. Is this one of the results of contracting book buying? Local author’s book not
in libraries, but will beEvery problem now seems to be blamed on the library system's controversial book-buying contract, noted John Penebacker, special assistant to the state librarian.
But the lack of certain books has far less to do with the out-of-state contract than with the fact that the library's budget for buying books has shrunk from $3.5 million a year in the past to half a million dollars this year, he said.
Regarding Keller's book: "When titles are identified that we do not have, we notify the vendor," he said. It turns out that Keller's book was already on the purchase list and was being shipped here, he said. He could not say when the book would be on library shelves.
Columnist Ben Wood said singer Audy Kimura is the acoustics and sound consultant for the Hawaii Convention Center Authority. What kind of background qualifies him for that? Engineers check things from a technical level; "however, we felt it important to have the view of a performer and recording engineer," said Alan Hayashi, executive director of the convention center authority. "Mr. Kimura brings this important perspective to the project review."
Kimura started as a recording engineer at Sounds of Hawaii, working with such performers as Don Ho, Mackey Feary and Marlene Sai. He also produced Glenn Medeiros' newest album.
He has been with Polydor Records since 1986; performed on NBC-TV and in Japan; produced, written and engineered three award-winning albums; written/produced seven TV commercials in Japan; won eight Na Hoku Hanohano awards; and won seven national awards for video scoring.
He is being paid at a rate of $100 an hour for a maximum of $8,000.
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