Certified archivist Helen Wong Smith led initiatives in conservation and collection arrangement

She engaged 30 community members in various workshops through the grant period and developed the best management practices policy for existing collections and new accessions.

Several community presentations were also offered to Lāna‘i residents, sharing preservation methods for their own family collections. Pamela Pili Alconcel, a community member and founding board member, participated in workshops offered by the Western Archives Institute in archival skills.

During the grant period, additional archival storage space was given to the Lāna‘i CHC by Pūlama Lāna‘i, and a new H-Vac/Climate Control System was installed in the archives. As a result of the addition of space and updating of collection categories, the entire collection of Lāna‘i CHC was reorganized, and many objects were rehoused in archival-safe storage materials.

New accessions also continued to be added to collection during the grant period, and include, but are not limited to:

• 22 boxes from the 1987-1988 Kalaehī UH Archaeological Field School Studies

• 20 boxes from the 1989-1991 Hulopo‘e Field Archaeological Inventory Surveys

• 7 boxes from the Kō‘ele and Lāna‘i Rural District Field Archaeological Inventory Surveys

• 3,000+ historic photos have been scanned and accession/call numbers assigned

• 190 Plantation Land Survey Books covering the 1920s to 1950s

• Indigenous artifacts

• Plantation family memorabilia

Following much work and review, PastPerfect Collections Software was purchased to establish a uniform indices of collections. More than 22,532 records were input to the new museum software. Development of the collections indices is ongoing.