Hawaiian & Pacific Collections News

"Preserving Local Historical Sources: How it Happens and Why it Needs to Be Done"

2012-02-23T15:31:00.000-08:00

The below announcement regards a talk about a soon-to-be available manuscript collection in our Hawaiian Collection: the archives of Hawai'i Catholic Women's Guild.

"Preserving Local Historical Sources: How it Happens and Why it Needs to Be Done"

The Catholic Women’s Guild, Archives Preservation and Access Project
Palama Settlement, Dining Room
810 N. Vineyard Blvd.
March 3, 2012
11:00 AM
Moderator:
Dr. Albert W. H. Lum, Professor Emeritus (English), Chaminade University;
Curator, Brother Bertram’s Photographs, 1883–1905
Speakers:
Sr. William Marie Eleniki, OSF, Chief Administrator,
St. Francis Healthcare Foundation of Hawaiʻi
Paula Rath, Journalist and Palama Settlement Trustee;
and Jacqueline Rath, Archivist, Palama Settlement Archives
Ellen Chapman, Archivist, University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa
Dr. Janine Richardson, Historian; Project Director, Catholic Women’s Guild Preservation Project

More information on Bishop Museum Library and Archives status

2012-02-15T15:41:00.000-08:00

The Bishop Museum Library and Archives has posted the below message on its internet home-page. The website also now includes an online appointment request form:

"In alignment with Bishop Museum’s new strategic plan, the Library and Archives collections have been identified as an area of priority in the effort to develop increased access to Museum resources for our community. Effective March 1, 2012, the Library and Archives will temporarily suspend public reference hours and provide limited, by-appointment access to its collections. This temporary closure will allow staff the necessary time to support a museum and community effort to plan and implement a new model of operation for this area."

Pacific Connections Seminar Series features live-via-internet presentations from Tahiti

2012-02-14T11:28:00.000-08:00

The below message, regarding a new trans-Pacific seminar series, is quoted from a message circulated by the UH-M Center for Pacific Islands Studies:

Aloha friends and colleagues,
Please join us for the inaugural presentation in the Pacific Connections Seminar Series featuring Professor Serge Dunis, University of French Polynesia.

[Re]connecting Hawai‘i and Tahiti: South Pacific Perspectives on Hawai‘i and Pacific Travel in the Precolonial Period

Tuesday, 21 February 2012, 12:00-1:00 p.m. Room 3121/3125, John Burns Hall, East West Center

Professor Serge Dunis

University of French Polynesia

Tahiti Nui

It is believed that Hawai‘i was first settled by migrants coming from the Marquesas, followed by a second wave of immigration launched from Bora Bora. Understanding movements during this exciting era relies heavily on interpreting oral traditions, embracing indigenous knowledge, as well as other methods of uncovering the past.

As a scholar of both Hawai‘i and Tahiti Nui, Professor Dunis will present an argument about Pele, goddess of the volcano. In retracing her pet sister’s steps between Kaua‘i and Kilauea, Professor Dunis will also illuminate H‘iiaka’s epic journey across vast stretches, reaching as far as the Galapagos Islands. Hi‘iaka is said to have overwhelmed the hordes of the giant Mo‘o and become aware of the Amerindian tuber, known today as the sweet potato. The presentation will explain how El Niño subsequently influenced settlement of the entire Pacific.

Something New…

This presentation marks the inauguration of live scholarly presentations between Hawai‘i and Tahiti Nui. Each month throughout the spring semester we will connect via video for a brown-bag seminar featuring faculty and students dedicated to Pacific islands studies. It is jointly sponsored by the University of French Polynesia, University of Hawai‘i, and East-West Center. The second seminar will be Wednesday 21 March at 12:00 pm - Flags, Human Heads, and Movies: Challenges of Seeking a Common Destiny in Kanaky New Caledonia, by Professor David Chappell, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa,

For additional information and disability access, please contact Katherine Higgins at 956-2652 or khiggins@hawaii.edu. The University of Hawai‘i is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution.

Katherine Higgins

Outreach Director

Center for Pacific Islands Studies

Hawai'i and Pacific related events at UH-Manoa this week

2012-02-13T15:03:00.000-08:00

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the UH-M Center for Pacific Islands Studies:

Micronesian Connections
Thursday 16 February 1:30 pm – 6:00 pm, John Burns Hall room 3125/3121, East-West Center

This free public event offers perspectives on Micronesian communities in Hawai‘i featuring personal stories from students, presentations on public policy and issues relating to discrimination, and an overview of COFA, health, housing, and education for Micronesian communities. For more information, see the attached flyer or contact Dr. Ulla Hasager at ulla@hawaii.edu or 956-4218.

Seminars:

Wednesday 15 February
Ty P. Kawika Tengan (Ethnic Studies) “Return to Fort Kamehameha: Martialing Memory in Occupied Hawai‘i” in ICSCP Speakers Series, 12:00 – 1:15 pm, John Burns Hall room 2118, East-West Center.

Lt. Colonel Joe Estores (retired, U.S. Army) came back to Hawai‘i in 2006, a Vietnam Veteran with 20 years of service as a soldier and over 30 years as a federal employee. His shock at the massive transformations that had taken place since he left the islands led to a transition in his “warrior life” as he took up the cause of demilitarization and Hawaiian sovereignty upon his return. One component of this work has been to re-narrate the history of his childhood home of Fort Kamehameha, an Army coastal artillery post at the entrance of Pearl Harbor that later became a part of Hickam Air Force Base. While the site is known primarily for its military significance, for him it was also a playground where his Native Hawaiian and Filipino family thrived on the abundant marine resources that have all but vanished now. The personal and family stories he tells articulate with broader histories of Indigenous engagements with U.S. empire, the traces of which are found in the bones that are unearthed in construction projects and forgotten place namesthat appear on old maps. This talk explores the ways that Estores actively re-members Fort Kamehameha as a way of contesting the occupation of Hawai‘i through narrative enactments of Hawaiian and military pasts. In so doing, his story reveals the ambivalences inherent in efforts to transform imperial soldiering into Indigenous warrior hood.

Thursday 16 February
Monica A. "Ka'imipono" Kaiwi (Kamehameha Schools – Kaplama English department) in the UHM English Department Colloquium Series and Native Voices Reading and Lecture Series, 3:00 pm, Kuykendall 410, UHM.

Like many of our counterparts, the Kamehameha Schools—Kapālama English department has wrestled with defining Native Hawaiian and local/Hawai'i literature for several years. In response to our KS strategic plan and a number of subsequent initiatives, our department committed to integrate Native Hawaiian literature into our multi-cultural college-preparatory curriculum. This decision gave urgency to our on-going discussion and brought to the forefront the need to agree upon a clear definition of Native Hawaiian literature that was both substantive and respectful of diverse opinions. In brief, we wished to be meaningful without being pedantic.

The framework to be presented and discussed in this colloquium is our KS English department’s approach to conceptualizing Native Hawaiian and local/Hawai'i literature. The goal of this exercise is to initiate a discussion of literature written in and/or about Hawai'i, to provide a tool with which to craft valuable criticism for both Native Hawaiian literature and the literature of Hawai'i, and to help define Hawai'i's literature for the greater educational community.

Ka'imipono is the Department Head for English at Kamehameha Schools—Kapālama, where she currently teaches AP Literature and Composition: Comparative. She has taught Hawaiian, Pacific and world literature for over twenty-seven years.

Ka'imipono earned her Masters Degree in English from The University of Auckland under the mentorship of Albert Wendt and Witi Ihimaera. Ka'imipono has published a number of poems and articles on topics ranging from Hawaiian Education to Herman Melville’s Typee.

Bishop Museum Library and Archives (temporary) closure

2012-02-10T15:46:00.000-08:00

Starting March 1st, Bishop Museum Library and Archives will temporarily close to the public. No other details are currently available, though we will post them here as they become known.

2/10/12: Digital Image Use 101: Rediscover Images on the Internet

2012-02-06T16:17:00.000-08:00

The below is quoted directly from a message circulated by UH-Manoa Hamilton Library:

Digital Image Use 101: Rediscover Images on the Internet

This workshop covers the process of finding, downloading, and using images from the Internet for your academic work and beyond. Finding images on the Internet and using them properly are critical skills for succeeding in your academic and professional career. Participants will learn how the digital image industry works, tips for searching images, various online resources, how to avoid copyright violation, how to develop a critical eye for identifying the credibility of digital images, and how to cite images in your paper and projects.

The workshop is open to students, faculty and staff at UH. Please RVSP to kanako3@hawaii.edu with your name and department/major. Walk-in participants are also welcome on the day.

Date & Time:
    Friday, February 10, 2012 - 11:30am-12:30pm

Location:
    Room 113, Hamilton Library (first floor near the elevators)
          *It is recommended to bring a warm jacket since the room is very cold.

For more information about finding and using images online, go to the Hamilton Library’s art research guide at: http://guides.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/content.php?pid=94214&sid=780976

2/3/12: Native Voices: A reading and lecture

2012-01-30T15:59:00.000-08:00

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the Center for Pacific Islands Studies:

Native Voices: A reading and lecture series presents:

Flora Aurima Devatine
Caroline Sinavaiana
Michael Puleloa
Lauren Mālialani Cabaniss
Leilani Johnson-Hagmoc
Joleen Togawa Salas

When: Friday, February 3, 2012, 4pm

Where: Halau o Haumea, Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawai'i, Mānoa, campus

Curated by Brandy Nālani McDougall & Craig Santos Perez

Author Bios:
Flora Aurima Devatine is a Ma‘ohi scholar, member of the Tahitian Academy, writer and an editor of the first Tahitian review Littérama‘ohi, which unites a group of apolitical Polynesian writers. Her book Tergiversations et reveries de l’écriture orale, which she describes as “a controlled drift,” endeavors to braid together the different aspects of her culture: Ma‘ohi and French. This gives birth to a very original poetry and returns, through writing, to the sacredness of ancestral orality.

Samoan poet Caroline Sinavaiana is an associate professor of English at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. She is the author of two poetry books: Mohawk/Samoa: Transmigrations, written with James Stevens, and Alchemies of Distance.

Michael Puleloa was born on Majuro in the Marshall Islands and raised on Molokai. He has taught English at Kapiolani Community College and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is currently an English teacher at Kamehameha Schools, Kapalama, where he is also the advisor for Hookumu, the school’s student literary journal. He has received awards for both his poetry and prose.

Lauren Mālialani Cabaniss is from Kohala on the island of Hawai'i and is currently pursuing concurrent degrees in English and Hawaiian Studies. In her spare time she loves to read and write and is inspired by the people she meets and the ʻāina around her. She is currently working on a research project for her ʻāina hānau (birth land) and a collection of poetry.

Leilani Johnson-Hagmoc is a Senior at the University of Hawaii of Manoa. She is majoring in Secondary Education with an emphasis in English, and her aspiring dream is to become a high school teacher. On her spare time, she likes to be outdoors with nature. She enjoys hiking, working in the lo'i patch, or fishing at the beach.

Joleen Togawa Salas is a native from the island of Saipan and is currently at UH pursuing a BA in Sociology. She credits her poetic influences to music as it has always been the one thing that has inspired her in dance, word, and life since a very young age. In her writing, she focuses mainly on women's issues while also incorporating her pacific island background. She hopes to become a writer who contributes to her cultural background in its pride and its people. Biba Pasifiko! Biba Kutura!

Heyum Endowment Fund scholarship for 2012

2012-01-30T11:59:00.000-08:00

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the UH-Manoa Center for Pacific Islands Studies:

The Center for Pacific Islands Studies is pleased to announce the Heyum Endowment Fund scholarship for 2012. The Heyum Endowment Fund, at the University of Hawai'i, was established by the late R Renée Heyum, former curator of the Pacific Collection, Hamilton Library, to assist Pacific Islanders pursuing education and/or training in Hawai'i. Funds are available to support one scholarship in the amount of $3,000 for the 2012–2013 academic year, and qualified individuals are invited to apply. The application can be found at http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis/academic_programs_6.html. If you have any questions, please contact Dr Julie Walsh at jwalsh@hawaii.edu.

1/30: “Shillyshallying and daydreams of oral writing”

2012-01-24T13:24:00.000-08:00

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the UH-Manoa Center for Pacific Islands Studies. For more information, please click on the flyer at right.

The UHM Department of Languages and Literatures of Europe and the Americas and the UHM Center for Pacific Islands Studies present “Shillyshallying and daydreams of oral writing” by Tahitian poetess Flora Devatine.

Monday 30 January, 3:00pm at Center for Korean Studies, Conference Room.

Flora Aurima Devatine is a ma‘ohi scholar, member of the Tahitian Academy, writer and an editor of the first Tahitian review Littérama‘ohi, which unites a group of apolitical Polynesian writers. Her book Tergiversations et reveries de l’écriture orale, which she describes as “a controlled drift,” endeavors to braid together the different aspects of her culture: Ma‘ohi and French. This gives birth to a very original poetry and returns, through writing, to the sacredness of ancestral orality.

For more information and disability access, please contact Titaua Porcher at tporcher@hawaii.edu or 956-4186.

Call for Papers: 2012 Indigenous Studies Student Conference at UH Mānoa.

2012-01-20T13:15:00.000-08:00

The first annual Indigenous Studies Student Conference will be held from April 13–14, 2012, at the Hālau o Haumea, Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, UH Mānoa Campus in Honolulu.
The theme for this inaugural year is “Ola Nā Iwi (The Bones Live): Indigenous Continuity.”
This inaugural conference year is for UH system students (undergraduates and graduate students) only. If you have any questions, please contact Brandy Nālani McDougall at brandynm@hawaii.edu.

Construction to affect Hawaiian and Pacific Collections in Summer 2013

2012-01-10T11:32:00.000-08:00

Aloha UHM Hawaiian and Pacific Collection library users,

UH Manoa Hamilton Library is scheduled for an extensive, 6-8 month long construction project that will move throughout much of the library, affecting both access to collections and library services. Currently, we expect the project to begin in late 2012, and continue through the summer of 2013. Details will be forthcoming.

This message is to notify users of the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections that the construction project will greatly impact access and services during the summer of 2013. Other parts of the library will be affected at different times while the project is ongoing. Details are not yet confirmed, but for the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections, we expect the following:

Materials in the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections will be unavailable and the HP Reading Room will be closed for approximately 6 weeks sometime during the summer of 2013. Reference service and instructional support will be very limited.

If you expect to be teaching a summer course in 2013 that will require access to Hawaiian Collection or Pacific Collection materials, contact us to discuss your class and research or library assignments.

If you are working with or know of a summer program that might be using the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections, please contact us to discuss your program and library assignments.

If you are planning to travel to Honolulu for research at the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections, please contact us well in advance, so that we can keep you posted on the schedule, as it becomes available to us.

If you are working on research or writing projects for which you will need access to the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections, please contact us as soon as possible.

Please pass this message on, as appropriate.

Joan Hori, Hawaiian Collection curator and department head (jhori@hawaii.edu; phone808.956.9296)

Stu Dawrs, Senior Pacific specialist (dawrs@hawaii.edu; phone 808.956.9779)

Bob Krauss Research Index

2012-01-04T13:11:00.000-08:00

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by Hawaiian Collection librarian Dore Minatodani. (For more on digital newspaper resources as they relate to Hawai'i and the Pacific, click here.)

The Hawaiian and Pacific Collections at the UHM Library are happy to announce that the transfer of the Bob Krauss Research Index to online availability has been completed. We have also added links to online copies of newspapers in Chronicling America, where available. See below for quick links to sample searches.

Please visit our new site, at http://manoa.hawaii.edu/hawaiiancollection/krauss, and update your bookmarks.

We thank the Krauss family for allowing us to make this index available to the public; and the University Research Council, John and Barbara Stephan, and the Ifuku Family Foundation for their financial support.

For technical support, we thank the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library's Desktop Network Support department, headed by Martha Chantiny, for bringing the Krauss index into its original online format in Streetprint. In particular, we thank Alice Tran, Daniel Ishimitsu and Wing Leung for their setup and coding work.

We also extend our thanks to the many students who worked on this project, among whom Alan Vandermyden stands out for his dedication to the project.

Finally, we extend special thanks to Margaret Lui, whose hundreds of volunteer hours took us to the finish line.

About the Bob Krauss Research Index

Bob Krauss (1924-2006) wrote for the Honolulu Advertiser for fifty five years, from 1951 through 2006. One of his research strategies was to review older newspapers on microfilm and to take notes on index cards. Over time these cards came to fill 22 card file drawers, stored front and center on Krauss's office desk.

The newspapers Krauss turned to were:

the Honolulu Advertiser and its predecessor the Pacific Commercial Advertiser (published since 1856)
the Honolulu Star-Bulletin (published under various titles since 1870)
the Polynesian, (1840-1841, 1844-1864)

To a lesser degree, Krauss also indexed other publications, and information he gathered through personal interviews and correspondence. He annotated most of his index entries with notes and explanations that provide context and information not typically found in formal newspaper indexes.

The index is by no means comprehensive in subject or time coverage. It largely reflects Krauss's research interests. Nonetheless it provides critical starting points into Hawaiʻi's newspaper literature, covering periods of time and subjects in newspaper titles that have been formally indexed nowhere else.

Sample Searches

- articles on HOTELS, published in the Hawaiian Star (available in Chronicling America)

- articles on HOTELS, all newspapers

- articles on CHINESE, published in the Daily Bulletin (available in Chronicling America)

- articles on CHINESE, all newspapers

Dec. 7: Film screening, "Wa Kuk Wa Jimor--Marshallese Canoes Today"

2011-12-06T11:46:00.000-08:00

The below message was circulated by the UH-M Center for Pacific Islands Studies:

Wa Kuk Wa Jimor--Marshallese Canoes Today
Q & A with filmmaker Rachel Miller
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
Noon - 1:15 pm
EWC Burns Hall, Room 3015/3019

The canoe tradition is one of the foundations of Marshallese culture. In the past it was the key to survival in the Marshall Islands, and it continues to embody many of the key values and practices of traditional Marshallese culture. Wa Kuk Wa Jimor--Marshallese Canoes Today (55 min, 2011), by Rachel Miller, introduced the tradition of the Marshallese canoe--including the history, types, and technological innovations of the canoes--and the complex connection between the canoe and Marshallese culture. It looks at the state of the canoe tradition in three locations in the Marshalls and explores the future of the canoe tradition.

Rachel Miller earned an MA in Pacific Islands studies from the UHM Center for Pacific Islands Studies. Prior to joining the MA program, Rachel lived in the Marshall Islands for three years, two of which she spent working with Waan Aelon in Majel, a youth vocational training organization that teaches skills using the media of traditional outrigger canoes, boat building, and woodworking.

The film was funded by the Hawai'i Council for the Humanities (HCH). The screening is cosponsored by the UHM Center for Pacific Islands Studies, the East-West Center Pacific Islands Development Program, and HCH. For information and disability access, contact the Center for Pacific Islands Studies at 956-7700.

Dec. 9: Tama'ita'i Sa!

2011-12-06T07:46:00.000-08:00

The below email message was circulated by the UH-M Center for Pacific Islands Studies. For more information, click on flyer at right:

The UHM Fealofani 'O Samoa Club and the Samoan upper-level classes invite you to

TAMA'ITA'I SA!

on Friday, 9 December, at 7:30 pm in the Campus Center Ballroom.

Nov. 22: "Amuia le Masina: Moon Madness, Ghosts, and Metaphors"

2011-11-22T11:30:00.000-08:00

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the Center for Pacific Islands Studies. For more information, click on flyer at right.

Amuia le Masina:

Moon Madness, Ghosts, and Metaphors

Marisa Maepu

Fulbright-Creative New Zealand

Pacific Writer at UH Manoa

Date: Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Time: 3:00 pm

Place: UHM Center for Korean Studies Auditorium

Refreshments to follow.

Nov. 17: "Insular Empire" Screening and Discussion

2011-11-15T19:30:00.000-08:00

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the UH-Manoa Center for Pacific Islands Studies:

Insular Empire Screening and Discussion

The UH Marianas Club presents a screening of the groundbreaking PBS documentary, The Insular Empire: America in the Mariana Islands. After the screening, a panel discussion will be held with Chamoru activists/scholars: Tressa Diaz, Angela Hoppe-Cruz, and Craig Santos Perez.

When: Thursday, November 17 2011

4:30-5:00 Chanting and Introductions
5:00-6:00 Film Screening
6:00-7:00 Panel Discussion
7:00-8:00 Food & Drinks

Where: Ala Wai Plaza Conference Room
500 University Ave #101, Honolulu, HI

Refreshments will be provided
Hosted & sponsored by the UH Marianas Club

Nov. 17: "One Voice" Screening and Discussion

2011-11-15T13:46:00.000-08:00

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the UH-Manoa Department of Linguistics:

Dear UH Linguistics community,

This is a reminder that this coming Thursday we will welcome UH's own Lisette Flanary (Academy of Creative Media) to screen her new documentary "ONE VOICE" for the LSH! This will be happening on Thursday, November 17 at 6PM in the Center for Korean Studies Auditorium. Please join us!

ONE VOICE is a film that is very relevant for our department, as it showcases Hawaiian language and music revitalization right here on O'ahu (see the synopsis below). We are very fortunate to have this opportunity to see the film as a group and talk with the director. You can read more about ONE VOICE here.

The film was also just nominated for the very prestigious IFP Gotham Award in New York City. I saw the film a few months ago and thought it was wonderful. Hope to see you all there!

~Andrea Berez

Synopsis

ONE VOICE is a documentary film that tells the story of the Kamehameha Schools Song Contest through the eyes of the student song directors. Every year in Hawai‘i, 2000 high school students compete in the Kamehameha Schools Song Contest where young leaders direct their peers in singing Hawaiian music in four-part harmony. The Contest is a unique cultural celebration that has become a major local event, broadcasted live on TV, played on the radio, and streamed on the Internet.

ONE VOICE shares the thrill of the competition via the personal stories of the student song directors as they experience the trials and tribulations of competition in this annual high school event. Following the elected student song directors, the audience sees how the tradition creates an indelible experience that builds class unity, instills cultural pride, and builds character. The film also explores their world outside of school by meeting their families, or ‘ohana, and revealing their hopes and dreams for the future. Through the stories and lives of these contemporary high school students, the audience will experience Hawaiian culture as it has survived, flourished, and grown through the universal power of music and song.

--
Andrea L. Berez
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

Director, Kaipuleohone UH Digital Ethnographic Archive

Technology reviews editor, Language Documentation & Conservation
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~aberez

Nov. 9: Roundtable on (De)Militarizing the Pacific

2011-11-07T15:00:00.000-08:00

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the Center for Pacific Islands Studies. For more, click on the flyer at right:

(De)Militarizing the Pacific:
a roundtable discussion featuring scholars & activists from Hawai'i & Guahan

11/9/11
7pm
Halau O Haumea
Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies
University of Hawai'i, Manoa

Speakers:

Julian Aguon is an attorney who specializes in international law and the author of numerous books and law journal articles on the subjects of self-determination, decolonization, demilitarization, and international human rights. He teaches International Law at the University of Guam and lectures widely on these issues. His most recent book, What We Bury At Night, describes the present day realities of the United States' continuing colonial relationships with the islands and peoples of Micronesia. He was named a 2011 Petra Fellow by the New York-based Petra Foundation, a national foundation that honors individuals deemed to have made distinctive contributions to the field of human rights.

Kaleikoa Ka'eo was born and raised on the island of Maui. He is a graduate of Baldwin High School and the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He lives with his family at Waiohuli, Maui and is an Assistant Professor of Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawai'i Maui College.

Terri Keko'olani is a renowned activist and community leader and will be speaking on behalf of DMZ Hawai'i Aloha 'Aina, Women's Voices, Women Speak (International Women's Network Against Militarism), & Ohana Koa, Nuclear Free & Independent Pacific.

Lisa Natividad is an Assistant Professor and chair of the Division of Social Work at the University of Guam. She is also a founding member and President of the Guahan Coalition for Peace and Justice. In these capacities, she has represented Guahan (Guam) in various fora as an indigenous voice raising concerns about the planned U.S. military build-up on the island and the impact of militarism on her people and environment. She is a guest host on the local public radio show, Beyond the Fence, which is dedicated to facilitating community conversations on how the island is impacted by militarism.

Ty Kawika Tengan is an associate professor of ethnic studies and anthropology at UH Maanoa. He is the author of the book Native Men Remade: Gender and Nation in Hawai'i, and he teaches on issues of culture, identity, and politics in Hawai'i and the Pacific. He is originally from Maui and presently resides with his family in Palolo.

Sponsored by The Center for Pacific Islands Studies, American Studies, Hawai'inuiakea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, the UH Marianas Club, and Moana Nui / Hosted by Craig Santos Perez

Through Nov. 14: Exhibition of Paintings by Jeffry Feeger

2011-11-03T14:00:00.000-07:00

The Hawaiian and Pacific Collections are honored to host Port Moresby Market Collection, an exhibition by visiting artist Jeffry Feeger. The below is quoted directly from the exhibition announcement. To view a video of the artist creating one of the pieces that is currently on exhibit, click here.

Port Moresby Market Collection Exhibition
November 1–14
Hawaiian & Pacific Collections
University of Hawai‘I Hamilton Library
2550 McCarthy Mall, 5th Floor
Hours: M–F, 9 a.m.–5 p.m., Sundays, 1-5 p.m

Artist Walk–Through and Lecture/ with Reception
Monday, November 7
Noon-1:30 p.m.
Hamilton Library, Room 301
Meet at 12:00 in the Hawaiian & Pacific Collections at Hamilton Library, 5th Floor

Lecture and reception to follow walk-through in Room 301

Feeger, who is currently living and working in Port Moresby, has become part of a new generation of PNG artists whose work provokes critical awareness about social and political realities in PNG. In 2009 he was awarded the inaugural Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust and Pacific Cooperation Foundation Artist Residency in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and has exhibited extensively throughout the Pacific Island region. His exhibition Port Moresby Market Collection is a visual exploration of evolving grassroot economies and neighborhood markets of Port Moresby. His residency is cosponsored by the UHM Department of Art and Art History, the UHM Center for Pacific Islands Studies, and the UHM Student Activity and Program Fee Board.

Please contact mcadora@hawaii.edu for more information.

Volunteers needed: Hawaiian language newspapers project

2011-11-02T08:57:00.000-07:00

The below is quoted directly from a message circulated on behalf of Puakea Nogelmeier:

Volunteers are needed, up to 3,000, to help type 60,000 pages of digitized Hawaiian language newspapers to make them all searchable. You don't need to know Hawaiian, just need to have a computer and access to the internet. Can you volunteer 10 hours a month and type 3 newspaper pages each month? The project launches on November 28, 2011 and will finish by July 31, 2012, Restoration Day. Sign up now at www.awaiaulu.org and be part of this historical Hawaiian legacy effort. See the two attachments for more information and spread the word to your email lists. Thank you.

Last Chance to Register: Pacific Trivia Night

2011-10-28T08:47:00.000-07:00

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the Center for Pacific Islands Studies:

Aloha Mai Kakou, Hafa Adai, Bula Vinaka, Talofa Lava, Alii, Malo e Lelei, Kia Ora, Namaste, Kia Orana and Halo Olgeta,

Pacific Trivia Night, hosted by the Pan-Pacific Association (PPA), will be held Friday, 4 November. Information is on the attached flyer. There are many great prizes to be won, so PPA invites you to invite your friends and come share in the fun of the night.

E-mail panpacifichawaii@gmail.com for details about registering as a team; the team registration deadline is Friday, 28 October.
--

The Pros and Cons of Long-term Fieldwork

2011-10-27T15:11:00.000-07:00

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the Center for Pacific Islands Studies:

Please join the Department of Anthropology for today's colloquium:

The Pros and Cons of Long-term Fieldwork

by Alan Howard, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, UH Manoa

Date: Thursday, 27 October

Time: 3:00 pm

Place: UHM Crawford Hall 105

During the 20th century most anthropological fieldwork was conducted in a single visit, usually of about a year's duration. This led to narrative accounts in the "ethnographic present," which fostered a rather static view of culture. Improvements in transportation and communication have made return visits over long periods of time more feasible for ethnographers, providing opportunities to come to grips with changes over time, changes in the culture being studied, changes in anthropology, and changes in the ethnographer(s). Alan Howard will discuss the pros and cons of such long-term fieldwork based on his experience of more than 50 years of research with people from the Polynesian island of Rotuma.

Alan Howard is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He has conducted research among the Rotuman people from 1959 until the present. He created and maintains the Rotuma Website (www.rotuma.net) as a service to the now-global Rotuman community.

The colloquium is cosponsored by the Center for Pacific Islands Studies.

Digital newspapers: Researching Hawai'i and the Pacific in 19th and 20th century newspapers

2011-10-26T14:07:00.000-07:00

This article, retrieved via TROVE from
The Brisbane Courier, dates from
Wednesday 21 August 1889, and
discusses the Wilcox rebellion in Hawai'i
(click to enlarge)

Both the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections have a great many historic newspapers, dating from the 19th century through present. Many are in microfilm format, and most have not been indexed, meaning that if you're searching for a specific event, your only option may be to go to the microfilms and begin reading papers dating from the period you're interested in. However, some have been digitized, and in these cases are searchable and readable online. In some cases, these newspapers are housed in paid-access databases; below are three open-access sites:

Chronicling America: Covers U.S. newspapers from 1836 to 1922, including (to date) fifteen different titles from Hawai'i (with more to come). Although these are U.S. and Hawai'i papers, they often cover major Pacific events of the day, and in terms of Pacific research can be useful in understanding how residents of Hawai'i and the continental U.S. viewed events in the broader Pacific. (For more on the Hawaiian Collection's participation in the Chronicling America project, click here.)

Papers Past (Aotearoa/New Zealand): The National Library of New Zealand hosts this site, which includes Aotearoa/New Zealand papers from the 19th and early 20th centuries. These papers can be useful for events not only in their home country, but throughout the Pacific -- see for instance their coverage of events in Hawai'i during the latter part of the 19th century.

TROVE (Australia): Hosted by the National Library of Australia, TROVE searches across a vast array of digital content produced by numerous Australian institutions. Digitized newspapers cover the years from 1803 to 1954.

"SAILING, NAVIGATION, AND CANOE CULTURE IN THE MARSHALL ISLANDS"

2011-10-25T23:02:00.000-07:00

The Center for Pacific Islands Studies is sponsoring this presentation by Joseph Genz and Rachel Miller on Wednesday, October 26, from Noon to 1:15 p.m. For more information, click on the flyer at right. Those interested in images of Marshallese canoes and canoing, numerous images can be found in the following online collections, which derive from photo holdings of the Pacific Collection at Hamilton Library:

Jack Tobin Marshall Islands Anthropology Collection

Nuclear Diaspora: Bikini and Enewetak

Trust Territory Photo Archives

Rainfall Atlas of Hawaii, now online

2011-10-20T16:11:00.000-07:00

The Geography Department at UH-Manoa has recently put online a revised edition of The Rainfall Atlas of Hawaii, which was last published in 1986. This new online version includes data from 1978 through 2007, along interactive maps and other material that is unique to the online version. To view the new Atlas, click here.

Tuvalu Photo Essay

2011-10-19T12:34:00.000-07:00

The October 18, 2011 online edition of the New York Times includes a photo essay on Tuvalu. To access it, click on the image at right.

Library Guide: "Chronicling America: Historic Newspapers from Hawaii and the U.S."

2011-10-17T14:28:00.000-07:00

Chronicling America is a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) / Library of Congress (LOC) project to digitize and provide free online access to historical English-language newspapers from across the United States, spanning the dates 1826-1922. The University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa Hamilton Library has been participating in this project since 2008, and has to date digitized and made available online fifteen of Hawaiʻi's newspapers, with new content added quarterly.Hawaiian Collection Librarian Dore Minatodani has created an online library guide detailing the project and how best to use it for Hawaii-related research. To view the guide, click here. To go directly to the individual Hawaii newspapers that have been scanned and added to the Chronicling America site, click the links below.

Pacific Islands Forum report

2011-10-11T13:05:00.000-07:00

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the UH-Manoa Center for Pacific Islands Studies. For more information, click on flyer at right:

Please join us on Wednesday for

Chinese Exceptionalism at the 42nd Pacific Islands Forum: A preliminary report

Gerard A Finin, Pacific Islands Development Program, East-West Center

Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Noon-1:15 pm

EWC John A Burns Hall, Room 3012

Tattoo Traditions of Polynesia

2011-10-10T21:53:00.000-07:00

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by Brian Richardson, as part of the Windward Community College "Common Books" program. All events take place on the Windward Community College campus. Several of Tricia Allen's tattooing publications are available at the UH-Manoa Hamilton Library, including The Polynesian Tattoo Today (Honolulu: Mutual Publishing, 2010) and Tattoo Traditions of Hawaii (Honolulu: Mutual Publishing, 2006):

Tattoo Traditions of Polynesia

Tattooing was far more than body decoration in traditional Polynesia. It was intricately woven into the social, political, and religious systems of the Polynesian people. Tattooist, author, and historian Tricia Allen will present a three-part series of beautifully illustrated presentations on the cultural practices in early historic times.

A Tattoo Tour of Polynesia
Tues. Oct. 11 12:30-2pm
Hale Akoakoa 101-103

Tattoo Traditions of the Marquesas
Tues. Oct. 18 12:30-2pm
Hale Akoakoa 101-103

Tattoo Traditions of Hawai’i
Tues. Oct. 25 12:30-2pm
Hale Akoakoa 101-103

Tricia Allen is a tattooist and anthropologist who has first hand experience in the art as she has tattooed well over 10,000 individuals. IN addition she has traveled the pacific extensively documenting the revival of the art. She is also the author of two well known, award winning books on the subject, Tattoo Traditions of Hawai’i, and The Polynesian Tattoo Today.

Wednesday, Sept. 28: "ARTISTIC ESCAPADES: Artist Residencies in Oceania"

2011-09-28T09:16:00.000-07:00

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the Center for Pacific Islands Studies. For more information, click on the flyer at right. The Pacific Collection holds library copies of Katherine Higgins' book, Red wave : space, process, and creativity at the Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture, as well as her Plan B Master's Project, Biau Kula : space, process, and creativity at the Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture. The text of Biau Kula can also be found online via Scholarspace, the library's digital repository.

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ARTISTIC ESCAPADES: Artist Residencies in Oceania

Katherine Higgins

Wednesday, 28 Sept 2011

Noon-1:15 pm

EWC John A Burns Hall, Room 3012

Katherine Higgins, who has an MA in Pacific Islands studies from the UHM Center for Pacific Islands Studies and a graduate certificate in museum studies from the Museum Studies Program in the UHM Department of American Studies, has been working with artists in Oceania for a number of years. In her talk she will look at the impact of artist residencies on the work of Pacific artists. Her visit is sponsored by the Museum Studies Program.

Sept. 22: "Holographic Epistemology, Native Common Sense"

2011-09-19T22:37:00.000-07:00

In preparation for her keynote address at the upcoming Western Museum Association Conference, Dr. Manulani Aluli Meyer is giving a free public lecture on indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing. The lecture takes place from 6 to 8 p.m. at Bishop Museum's Atherton Halau. For more information, click on the image at right.

Sept. 15: "Household Economy, Gendered Labor, and Spanish Colonialism in the Mariana Islands"

2011-09-12T18:51:00.000-07:00

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, which is co-sponsoring this presentation:

ANTHROPOLOGY COLLOQUIUM SERIES

Household Economy, Gendered Labor, and Spanish Colonialism in the Mariana Islands

James M. Bayman

Anthropology, UH Manoa

Thursday, September 15th, 3:00 pm, in Crawford Hall 105

Gendered labor characterizes household economies throughout the world but its archaeological evidence is often elusive. This presentation compares ethnohistoric accounts of household organization with archaeological patterns of domestic economy at a 17th century village on the island of Guam in the Marianas archipelago. This study analyzes archaeological assemblages from two latte buildings to document the economic activities of their residents. Unexpected differences in their assemblages indicate that economic tasks varied between the residents of the two latte buildings and that traditional Chamorro households were comprised of multiple buildings. Thus, this archaeological study reveals proxemic aspects of gendered labor in a contact-period community on the island of Guam that written accounts do not fully describe in the Mariana Islands. This presentation also considers the consequences of Spanish colonialism on Chamorro society, and the implications of this study for the interpretation of household economies in Pacific archaeology. This research took place during an archaeological field school conducted through a partnership between the Micronesian Area Research Center (MARC) at the University of Guam and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa.

Dr. James M. Bayman is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa where he teaches courses in anthropological archaeology. His research interests include political economy, technology, and colonialism in the Pacific Islands and the North American Southwest. His most recent fieldwork has focused on archaeology in the Mariana Islands. He is a former president of the Society for Hawaiian Archaeology and he is currently Coordinator of the Applied Archaeology Track at UH-Manoa.

Co-sponsored with the UHM Center for Pacific Islands Studies

For further information, please contact anthprog@hawaii.edu.

JSTOR announces release of free "Early Journal Content" online

2011-09-07T16:08:00.000-07:00

The below is quoted directly from a news release posted today by JSTOR:

On September 6, 2011, we announced that we are making journal content in JSTOR published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world. This “Early Journal Content” includes discourse and scholarship in the arts and humanities, economics and politics, and in mathematics and other sciences. It includes nearly 500,000 articles from more than 200 journals. This represents 6% of the content on JSTOR.

While JSTOR currently provides access to scholarly content to people through a growing network of more than 7,000 institutions in 153 countries, we also know there are independent scholars and other people that we are still not reaching in this way. Making the Early Journal Content freely available is a first step in a larger effort to provide more access options to the content on JSTOR for these individuals.

The Early Journal Content will be released on a rolling basis beginning today. A quick tutorial about how to access this content is also available.

We encourage broad use of the Early Journal Content, including the ability to reuse it for non-commercial purposes. We ask that you acknowledge JSTOR as the source of the content and provide a link back to our site. Please also be considerate of other users and do not use robots or other devices to systematically download these works as this may be disruptive to our systems. For more information, you can read a new section about Early Journal Content in our Terms & Conditions of Use.

If you would like to be notified of the first and subsequent releases of the Early Journal Content, you may follow us on Twitter or Facebook.

Please read our Frequently Asked Questions if you have additional questions about the Early Journal Content or contact us at support@jstor.org.

Download a brief program description that lists some Early Journal Content highlights.

latest issue of The Contemporary Pacific

2011-09-02T08:00:00.000-07:00

The latest issue of The Contemporary Pacific (Vol. 23, number 2, Fall 2011) has been released, and is available to UH students, faculty and affiliates via Project Muse. The latest issue features cover art (pictured at right) by Solomon Enos as well as articles by April K. Henderson ("Fleeting Sustainability: The Samoan Giant in US Popular Discourse"); Cluny Macpherson and La'avasa Macpherson ("Churches and the Economy of Samoa"); Michael P.J. Reilly ("Maori Studies, Past and Present: A Review"); Guido Carlo Pigliasco and Thorolf Lipp ("The Islands Have Memory: Reflections on Two Collaborative Projects in Contemporary Oceania"); and Brij V. Lal ("Where Has All the Music Gone? Reflections on the Fortieth Anniversary of Fiji's Independence"). Also included are the standard range of Political, Book and Media reviews.

As a reminder, all back issues of The Contemporary Pacific (prior to one year from the present) are also freely available on the Internet via UH-Manoa Library's Scholarspace digital repository. (And, of course, the Pacific Collection maintains a complete print collection of all volumes.)

"New Flags Flying"

2011-09-01T08:49:00.000-07:00

For those interested in Hawaiian sovereignty or the history of decolonization in the Pacific, Radio New Zealand hosts a website worth visiting. New Flags Flying includes background information on each independent nation of the Pacific, audio recordings (with print transcripts) of interviews with Pacific leaders and a "significant events since independence" narrative for each country.

“From APEC to Polynesia: Regionalism in World History”

2011-08-30T22:02:00.000-07:00

The World History Association of Hawai'i has issued a call for papers for its first annual conference, titled "From APEC to Polynesia: Regionalism in World History." The conference will be held on October 15, 2011, at Hawai'i Pacific University's downtown Honolulu campus. Paper abstracts are due October 1. For more information, click on the image at right.

Library Guide: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Archives

2011-08-30T16:58:00.000-07:00

The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Archives is one of the single most valuable collections of primary source material available dealing with the post-WWII Trust era in Micronesia. It can also at times be challenging for first time users. Pacific Specialist Librarian Eleanor Kleiber recently published an online guide to the Trust Territory Archives, which includes searching tips as well as numerous links to related materials: http://guides.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/tta

More "Hawaiian Waters" online

2011-08-29T08:45:00.000-07:00

The Hawaiian Collection is involved in an ongoing project to digitize and make freely available online important documents dealing with Hawai'i's freshwater resources. Hawaiian Collection librarian Jodie Mattos, who is coordinating the work, has announced that a new batch of material was uploaded recently, bringing to 68 the total number of documents currently available. Work on the project continues; for more information, click here. To go directly to the Hawaiian Waters site, click on the image at right.

"Urban(e) Tannese: Local Perspectives on Settlement life in Port Vila, Vanuatu"

2011-08-26T15:04:00.000-07:00

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the Center for Pacific Islands. For more on the exhibit, click on the image at right:

East-West Center Seminar in connection with the exhibit 'Port Vila: Mi Lavam Yu'
Cosponsored with the Department of Anthropology, UHM

"Urban(e) Tannese: Local Perspectives on Settlement life in Port Vila, Vanuatu"

by Lamont Lindstrom
Department of Anthropology, University of Tulsa

12 noon Friday September 2, 2011
East-West Center Art Gallery

Significant rural-urban migration has characterized the postcolonial Melanesian states including Vanuatu. Over the past 30 years, most people who once lived in Samaria village (Tanna Island) have moved to squatter settlements that ring Port Vila, Vanuatu's capital town. Life history interviewing of migrants now living in Port Vila's Blacksands and Ohlen neighborhoods document peoples' participation in urban life and how this participation is shaping a new urbanity in Vanuatu.

Lamont Lindstrom is Kendall Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tulsa. He is the author of Cargo Cult: Strange Stories of Desire from Melanesia and Beyond, Knowledge and Power in a South Pacific and has also published on the work of Martin and Osa Johnson, kava, chiefs and governance, Pacific War ethnohistory, and written a dictionary and grammar of Kwamera language (Tanna, Vanuatu). Several of his photographs are featured in EWC's current exhibition, 'Port Vila: Mi Lavam Yu'

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For further information, please contact Bill Feltz, EWC <feltzb@eastwestcenter.org>

Sia Figiel reading

2011-08-17T18:57:00.000-07:00

Samoan novelist and poet Sia Figiel will be joined by several other writers for a reading at Revolution Books on Sunday, August 21, at 3 p.m. For more information, click on the flier at right. To view the library's holdings of works by Figiel, click here and search for Figiel, Sia in the author field. To view a selected bibliography on Pacific Islands literature, compiled by the late Dr. Karen Peacock, click here. The New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre's "Pasifika Poetry" page also includes several video clips of Figiel reading her work.

2010 State of Hawaii Databook released online

2011-08-11T16:34:00.000-07:00

The State of Hawaii Databook is a major resource for current and historical statistics on a wide array of topics. Published annually since 1967, the Databook has also been made available for free downloading since 2000. The 2010 Databook has just been released; the below is quoted directly from a release circulated by the State of Hawaii Dept. of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.

HONOLULU—The State Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism (DBEDT) today released the 2010 edition of the State of Hawai‘i Data Book at http://www.hawaii.gov/dbedt.

The state’s Data Book is the most comprehensive statistical book about Hawaii in a single compilation. With 800 data tables, it covers a broad range of statistical information in areas such as population, education, labor, energy, business enterprises, government, tourism and transportation.

“Our Data Book is a valuable tool for business planners, researchers, policy makers, and anyone who wants or needs to know more about trends and data related to Hawai‘i,” said DBEDT Director Richard C. Lim. “This data becomes increasingly important in an economic environment where we are striving to be efficient in providing services. It is also a key took for business analysts seeking to identify trends and target audiences.”

Some of the data in this newest edition show that:

Over the last 60 years, the average number of persons per household has decreased from 4.14 persons per household in 1950 to 2.89 persons per household in 2010 (Table 1.47).

Between 2000 and 2010, there was a net migration of over 55,600 people into the State of Hawaii, with the largest number (about 26,500) moving into the County of Hawaii (Table 1.56).

Total visitor days increased by 8.9 percent to 65.6 million days in 2010 from 2009, of which 15.2 million days were international visitor days represented a 15.4 percent increase from a year earlier (Table 7.05).

In Fiscal year 2010, the total amount of municipal solid waste delivered reached a 20 year low of 777,069 tons (Table 5.30).

The most inquiries to the Better Business Bureau in 2010 were about general contractors (9,600), followed by inquiries about roofing contractors (about 8,200 inquiries) (Table15.33).

The number of housing units increased by over 31% in the County of Hawaii between 2000 and 2010, which was the largest increase among all Hawaii counties (Table 21.20).

On July 1, 2010 One-way Adult cash fare for "The Bus" on Oahu reached $2.50, 10 times the amount it started on March 1, 1971 when it cost a mere quarter for an adult fare (Table 18.26).

CD and DVD versions of the Data Book are available for special applications. The Research and Economic Analysis Division (READ) also maintains the historical series of tables and updates the data continuously throughout the year. The historical series and the update can be found in the “economic information” section of the DBEDT website.

This data book is the 43rd edition of its series and produced by the Department’s Research and Economic Analysis Division. During the year of 2010, the on-line version of the Data Books received 61,161 page views – more than 160 a day.

The Data Book is available on the DBEDT website, at http://hawaii.gov/dbedt/info/economic/databook and may be downloaded in whole or in part as pdf or Excel files. Historical data for selected tables may also be accessed from this site.

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For more information, contact:
Dave Young, READ Information Specialist
Phone: (808) 586-2480
Email: dyoung@dbedt.hawaii.gov

UH-Manoa joins Center for Research Libraries consortium

2011-08-10T14:13:00.000-07:00

The UH-M Library recently joined the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) consortium, which allows Manoa students, faculty, staff and affiliates free access to a variety of services, including free interlibrary loan (via second day UPS airmail) to more than 5 million items held by the Ohio-based CRL library, including many of potential use to scholars of Hawai'i and the Pacific. To search the CRL library catalog and request items via interlibrary loan, go to http://catalog.crl.edu/ For more information on CRL, visit www.crl.edu.

The below text is quoted directly from the CRL website:

The Center for Research Libraries makes available approximately five million publications, archives, and collections and one million digital resources to its member libraries to supplement their own humanities, science, and social science holdings. CRL materials can be obtained for extended loan periods and at no cost by users affiliated with member libraries. Last year, 92 percent of the CRL’s interlibrary loan requests were sent by two-day express within one business day, and 90 percent of copies were delivered within one business day as well.

CRL resources include:

6,500 international newspapers, many dating to the 1700s—the largest collection of circulating newspapers in North America
4,500 U.S. newspapers, many dating to the colonial era, including 2,000 ethnic titles
Foreign journals rarely held in U.S. libraries
More than 800,000 dissertations
Area Studies: major microform and paper collections from Africa, Latin America, Middle East, Europe, Asia, Southeast Asia, and many other areas

Pacific News From Manoa

2011-08-03T10:00:00.000-07:00

The latest issue of Pacific News From Manoa, the Center for Pacific Islands Studies newsletter, was recently released. To access the online edition, click here.

"Developing Pacific Scholarship"

2011-08-02T10:00:00.000-07:00

The below message was recently circulated by Richard Eves, of the State, Society & Governance in Melanesia Program at Australian National University. For more information, please follow the links:

Dear Colleagues,

I wish to draw your attention to the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Pacific Research Colloquium - Developing Pacific Scholarship to be held on the ANU Campus 30 January - 10 February 2012. The Research Colloquium is envisaged as a training opportunity for younger Pacific Islands researchers and we are offering a Pacific Scholarship Award for eight places to graduate students and scholars from universities, research institutions and professional bodies in the Pacific Islands to attend. Full travel costs to and from Canberra, plus accommodation, will be paid to successful Pacific Islander applicants. For more information see the following: http://ips.cap.anu.edu.au/ssgm/documents/SSGMCall_for_Applications_ANU_2012.pdf and for more information about SSGM see http://ips.cap.anu.edu.au/ssgm/

I would be grateful if you could forward this email to colleagues who may be interested in attending.

Best wishes,

Richard

"Teaching with ARTstor: Re-historicizing Contemporary Pacific Island Art"

2011-08-01T18:18:00.000-07:00

The blog for the digital library ARTstor recently featured an entry by UH-Manoa graduate student Marion Cadora, whose studies focus on contemporary Pacific art and artists. Marion's article is an excellent introduction to ARTstor's utility for scholars of Hawaii and the Pacific. To read it, click here. ARTstor holds more than 1 million images, and includes a growing body of Hawaiian and Pacific content; to access the site, click here.

"Hawaiian Waters" online

2011-06-04T17:12:00.000-07:00

While a fair amount of emphasis has been placed in recent years on making Hawai’i land documents available online, less attention has been paid to digitizing materials that relate to one of the Islands’ most important (and sometimes contentious) resources: water. The Hawaiian Collection and the Library’s Desktop Networking Services (DNS) department recently received funding from the Greater Western Libraries Alliance (GWLA) to digitize important documents dealing with fresh water in the Islands. The below announcement is quoted directly from an e-mail circulated by Martha Chantiny, head of DNS:

In September 2010 the GWLA Board approved the University of Hawaii at Manoa Library Opportunity Fund request in the amount of $3600 to digitize Hawaii historical water materials.
We are pleased to announce that the first 33 titles processed via the grant are now available in our eVols digital collection repository:

http://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10524/11858/browse?type=title

Mahalo to Beth Tillinghast and Jodie Mattos, project coordinators; Karen Brown and Alice Kim, project assistants; Daniel Ishimitsu, Dspace programmer. Special thanks to GWLA for their financial support.

Online Photo Collection: Jack Tobin Marshall Islands Anthropology Collection

2011-05-25T15:51:00.000-07:00

The Pacific Collection has completed a new online photograph database. The Jack Tobin Marshall Islands Anthropology Collection spans the years 1950 through 1972, during which time Dr. Tobin, a renowned anthropologist, was living and working in the Marshall Islands. The date range covered by these images was one of major change for the Marshalls, beginning not long after the outset of nuclear testing (1946) in the region and ending not long before the establishment of the Republic of the Marshall Islands as an independent nation (1979). The 1,933 images in this collection also enhance the Library's online collection Nuclear Diaspora: Bikini and Enewetak, which documents roughly the same period as witnessed by Dr. Robert Kiste and Dr. Leonard Mason. (Tobin initially went to the Marshall Islands in 1950 as a student of Len Mason, and all three had longstanding ties to the University of Hawai'i.)

The digitization work was funded by the UH-Manoa Center for Pacific Islands Studies’ Title VI National Resource Center grant, and was greatly aided by the Library's Desktop Networking Services department.

Climate change resources: "Threatened Island Nations"

2011-05-18T09:11:00.000-07:00

From May 23-25, 2011, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School are co-sponsoring "Threatened Island Nations: Legal Implications of Rising Seas and a Changing Climate." The New York conference will look at the legal framework surrounding climate change issues. Of note for those studying climate change in Hawaii and the Pacific: The conference website includes annotated bibliographies on various aspects of climate change as well as links to other online resources.

Recent Film Additions

2011-05-16T23:57:00.000-07:00

Sun Come Up

Below are listed some recently arrived films, all of which are available to UH-Manoa students, faculty and staff through the Wong Audio/Visual Center. To see the library cataloging record or request a film for viewing, click on the title. All films in the University Hawaii system can be found by searching the Voyager online catalog. The Center for Pacific Islands Studies also maintains a database that is specific to Oceania-related films—click here to visit the Moving Images of the Pacific Islands database.

Chechemeni's Adventure (2006) - Documentary film of the voyage from Satawal to Okinawa made by Chechemeni, a Carolinian traditional canoe, and six courageous sailors in 1975. In Japanese with English subtitles.

Jaki Ed: Marshallese Clothing Mats (2010) - A short cultural history of finely woven and decorative clothing mats worn traditionally by men and women in the Marshall Islands. It details the mat weaving process and describes recent efforts in the Marshall Islands to revive this cultural industry. In Marshallese with English subtitles.

No Questions (2007). A dramatization produced by Wan Smolbag Theatre in Vanuatu. Sylvia wants her students to get the most out of education, but the boys in her class are making her life difficult. Then she discovers a new and exciting way to teach, but as the students get more involved in her lessons, the other teachers become hostile.

Senso Daughters (1990). The story of military brothels and the mistreatment of New Guinean women and Japanese "comfort women" during World War II in Papua New Guinea, told through interviews.

Solid Sistas Documentary (2006). Documentary about the popular musical play Solid Sistas, produced in Vanuatu by Wan Smolbag Theatre. The play is about women's rights and social conditions.

Sun Come Up (2011). "Sun Come Up follows the relocation of some of the the Carteret Islanders, a peaceful community living on a remote island chain in the South Pacific Ocean, and now, some of the world's first environmental refugees. When rising seas threaten their survival, the islanders face a painful decision: they must leave their beloved land in search of a new place to call home. The film follows a group of young Carteret Islanders as they search for land in Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea 50 miles across the open ocean. The move will not be easy as Bougainville is recovering from a 10-year civil war"—Producers.

Modified Summer Hours

2011-05-04T11:58:00.000-07:00

Due to Library-wide budget cutting measures, the Hawaiian & Pacific Collections will be closed on Sundays throughout Summer 2011. In the period beginning May 15 and running through August 21, the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; closed on Saturdays and Sundays. During the summer interim period, May 16 through May 20, the Collections will be open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.; closed on Saturdays and Sundays. For more on Hamilton Library's hours, click here. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Now available online: Inventory of Newspapers Published in Hawaii, A Preliminary List

2011-04-06T12:25:00.000-07:00

Hawai'i has a newspaper publishing history that dates back to 1834, and includes papers published in virtually every language spoken in the Islands. In the early 1980s, as part of the Hawaii Newspaper Project, Nancy Jane Morris and Clare Marumoto set out to create an inventory of all known newspapers published in the Islands. The result was the 113-page Inventory of Newspapers Published in Hawaii, A Preliminary List. the UH-M library recently digitized the Inventory, and has made it available on eVols, the library's digital repository for material that it digitizes as part of grant projects and digital library program initiatives. To download and view the Inventory, go to: http://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10524/11832

"School on the Hill"

2011-03-08T18:10:00.000-08:00

The Hawaiian & Pacific Collections are currently hosting "School on the Hill," an exhibit of seventeen large-format photographs by Floyd Takeuchi, who recently published a book by the same name. (For more information on the book, click the cover image at right.) The photos will be on exhibit in the Hawaiian & Pacific Collections reading room through the end of April. The artist's statement for the show is quoted verbatim here:

“School On The Hill” is a photographic essay about Xavier High School, a Jesuit boarding school in Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia. Xavier High School is a small school (175 students in grades 9-12) on a small island (Weno) in a large ocean. But the impact of this school, which has welcomed Micronesian students since 1952, is disproportionate to its size. It is not an exaggeration to say that Xavier High School has impacted more lives and nations than any other secondary school in the Western Pacific.

Xavier High School has produced four presidents of two Pacific nations, ambassadors and senators, physicians and teachers, community leaders, and influential business executives. And it has done this with limited financial resources, mostly volunteer teachers who are recent college graduates, and while dealing with frequent power outages and occasional water restrictions during dry spells.

In an age when most education in the Pacific is in crisis, when financial resources are limited, how has Xavier managed to thrive when most other educational institutions have failed? That is what took me to Chuuk in 2010, and led to “School On The Hill.” I wanted to see how Xavier managed, and indeed, excelled. I wanted to capture the human story of adversity and success, of challenges met, and of the power of discipline and faith in an era of diminished expectations.

What I found was this: success at Xavier High School, with its students from an area as large as the continental United States speaking more than nine different languages, is based on high expectations of student behavior and performance; rigorous academics; a culture based on discipline; and the value of living in a faith-based community.

For Hawaii residents, there’s another lesson from “School On The Hill.” It is seeing Micronesians at their best, not as marginalized immigrants but as leaders with a rich cultural heritage; and, as members of a vibrant, creative community based on excellence and success.

Library Sciences scholarship programs

2011-03-08T08:00:00.000-08:00

The below is quoted in entirety from an email circulated by Jane Barnwell, Director of Library and Information Literacy Initiatives at Pacific Resources in Education and Learning (PREL):

LIS Scholarship Application
This is a great opportunity for funding. The LIS Scholarship application is also open. Applications must be submitted by April 1 for Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 awards. The application is located at: http://www.lis.unt.edu/main/Forms/ScholarshipApplication/

Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce Call for Applications
http://www.arl.org/news/pr/IRDW-1march11.shtml
Deadline June 1, 2011
For more information, contact:
Mark A. Puente
Association of Research Libraries
202-296-2296
mpuente@arl.org (mailto:mpuente@arl.org)
Washington DC--The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is accepting applications for the Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce (IRDW), a program designed to recruit master of library and information science (MLIS) students from traditionally underrepresented ethnic and racial minority groups into careers in research libraries. The IRDW includes a stipend up to $10,000 over two years, leadership and career development training, financial support for skills development, and a formal mentorship program.

Program Goal and Objectives

* Attracting MLIS students from underrepresented groups to careers in research libraries, especially students with educational backgrounds (preferably a baccalaureate degree) in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) disciplines + * Strengthening participants leadership and job searching skills via a Leadership Symposium held during the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting
* Developing a network of mentors who will guide and nurture the career development of the participants
+ Candidates from all academic disciplines are encouraged to apply. Those without academic training in STEM disciplines will be required to complete coursework that will better prepare the candidate to work in one of the designated areas.

Applications
Successful applicants will meet the following criteria:

* Member of an underrepresented racial or ethnic group (Note: Racial and ethnic identification is based on the categories outlined by the US Census and include: American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Black or
African American, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, Hispanic or Latino.)
* Acceptance into an ALA-accredited MLIS program
* Interest in pursuing a career in a research library

All applicants are required to submit the following materials by 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, June 1, 2011:

* Applicant summary sheet
* Resume
* A 400-word (maximum) essay describing what attracts you to a career in a research library
* Two letters of reference
* Official undergraduate and graduate school transc-ripts including your last academic semester completed
* Copy of an official letter of acceptance from an ALA-accredited
library/information school

The application form is online at
http://www.arl.org/diversity/init/IRDWapp.shtml
For more information about the program, see the IRDW Web site: http://www.arl.org/diversity/init/.

Thursday, March 10: "Henri Hiro and the Tahitian Cultural Renaissance"

2011-03-08T00:01:00.000-08:00

The below is quoted directly from an email message circulated by the UHM Center for Biographical Research:

"Henri Hiro and the Tahitian Cultural Renaissance"
by Didier Lenglare
Thursday, March 10, 2011 • 12 noon – 1:15 pm
Center for Biographical Research • 1800 East West Road, Henke Hall 325

Henri Hiro was a poet, teacher, filmmaker, pastor, and activist, and the founder of l’Office Territorial d’Action Culturelle. Born on Mo‘orea in 1944, he was raised in Punaauia by parents who spoke only Tahitian. He traveled to France to study, then returned to the Islands and became one of the first Mä‘ohi artists and intellectuals to inspire a renaissance of Polynesian cultural identity. As part of his mission to revive that identity, he declared that Polynesians must write, and to address them directly, he wrote poetry in the Tahitian language. Many of his poems are collected in Pehepehe i ta‘u nüna‘a / Message poétique (1990, 2004). He died in March 1990, at the age of forty-six, after a long illness.
Didier Lenglare teaches French at the University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa, where he specializes in the emerging literature of New Caledonia and French Polynesia. Born in France and raised in Senegal, he has studied, lived, and worked in a wide variety of Francophone regions, from West Africa to Quebec and from Oceania to Louisiana, where he received his PhD from Louisiana State University for his work on “Métissage culturel et acceptation de l’autre à travers les littératures émergentes de la Polynésie française et de la Nouvelle-Calédonie."
For more information, contact the Center for Biographical Research at 956-3774 or biograph@hawaii.edu.

Thursday, March 10: Metonymic Function of Language and Cultural Truth in Pacific Writing

2011-03-07T08:06:00.000-08:00

Dr. Steven Winduo will present as part of the UHM English Department's Spring Colloquium Series:

Thursday, 10 March 2011

3:00 pm

UHM Kuykendall Hall 410

The event is cosponsored by the UHM Center for Pacific Islands Studies and the East-West Center Pacific Islands Development Program. For more information, click on flyer at right.

Modified circulation policy during spring closure

2011-03-06T07:54:00.000-08:00

The University of Hawaii Library (along with the rest of the UH campus) will be closed during the spring recess, from March 19 through 25. To ensure that no overdue fines are incurred during this period, the standard two-week loan period for Hawaiian and Pacific Collection materials will be modified: All books that would normally come due during the closure will instead be due on the first day the Hawaiian & Pacific Collections reopen, which is Sunday, March 27.

Pacific News From Manoa

2011-03-06T07:46:00.000-08:00

The October-December 2010 edition of Pacific News From Manoa, the Center for Pacific Islands Studies' quarterly newsletter, has been posted online. Among other items, the newsletter includes stories on the December 31 retirement of Pacific Specialist librarian Lynette Furuhashi and the impending arrival to the Pacific Collection of Eleanor Kleiber.

Unwriting Oceania Film Series

2011-03-02T12:50:00.000-08:00

Dr. Steven Winduo, who is currently teaching Pacific Studies 690 (Unwriting Oceania), at UH-Manoa, has extended an open invitation UH students and faculty to a series of Wednesday evening film screenings tied to the 690 course. For scheduling and more information, click on the image at right.

Feb. 9: Steven Winduo reading

2011-02-07T15:50:00.000-08:00

Steven Edmund Winduo, who is currently serving as the Arthur Lynn Andrews Chair in Asian and Pacific Studies at UH-Manoa, will read from his 2009 collection of poetry, A Rower's Song, this Wednesday, February 9, from 6:30-9:30 p.m. For details, click on image at right. See also the most recent issue of Pacific News from Manoa for more on Winduo's stay in Hawaii.

Friday, Feb. 4: "Producing Culture: What are the conditions necessary to support creative excellence?"

2011-02-04T07:33:00.000-08:00

The Aia i ka Wai dialog series continues on February 4, with a panel featuring Manu Boyd, Keala Chock, Ku‘uipo Kumukahi, Michael Pili Pang, Cody Pueo Pata and Jordan Sramek. (For more complete details on the dialog series, see our previous entry.)

Location: Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 2645 Dole St. Honolulu, HI 96822

Time: 6:00-8:30 pm; preceded by musical performance from 5:00-5:45pm

Free admission and open to all. Parking is available adjacent to the Center.

Friday, Feb. 4: "Colonies Have No Voice": Caribbean Currents in the Pacific Ocean

2011-02-04T07:24:00.000-08:00

The UH-Manoa Dept. of History is hosting this talk by Dr. Njoroge Njoroge on Friday, February 4, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. For details, click on the image at right.

Tuesday, Jan. 25: "Adapting to Climate Change in the Pacific: Stepping Up Responses"

2011-01-24T11:31:00.000-08:00

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the East-West Center:

The EWC invites you to a presentation on adapting to climate change and an opportunity to learn about career opportunities with the Asian Development Bank:

"Adapting to Climate Change in the Pacific: Stepping Up Responses"

Featuring Robert Guild, Director for Pacific Strategy and Special Operations, Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

12:00 -1:00 PM

East-West Center, Burns Hall Room 3012

Following the presentation Andrea Iffland, Director of ADB's Pacific Sector Operations, will speak about career opportunities with the Asian Development Bank.

Click on flyer at right for more details. For further information contact: 808-944-7111 / EWCInfo@EastWestCenter.org.

Eleanor Kleiber joins Pacific Collection

2011-01-20T12:53:00.000-08:00

The University of Hawaii's Interim University Librarian, Paula Mochida, announced on Tuesday, January 18, that Eleanor Kleiber has been hired as Hamilton library's newest Pacific-specialist librarian. She will join the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections on April 22, 2011.

Eleanor is currently the librarian and archivist for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), which serves a staff of 350 in five Pacific Island locations. Her main office has been in Noumea, New Caledonia, but she has also spent substantial time of late in Suva, Fiji, where she has been responsible for designing the layout of a new SPC library. At SPC headquarters in Noumea, has been responsible for collection management, research support, the library management system, integrating specialized collections, and developing and implementing archival and records management policies and solutions.

Eleanor received her B.A. in History and a B.A. in Peace and Justice Studies from Wellesley College (which also included study abroad at the University of the South Pacific in Suva). She earned her Master's in Library Sciences (MLIS) and Master's in Archival Studies (MAS) from the University of British Columbia.

Spring 2011 Faculty Lecture Series continues on Thursday, Jan. 20, with: The Spectacular Diversity & Vulnerability of Hawaii's Native Insects

2011-01-12T15:53:00.000-08:00

The below is quoted directly from a press release circulated by the UH-M Library. Click on image at right for more information:

SPRING 2011 Faculty Lecture Series: Sharing Our Work and Knowledge

Thursday, January 20

The spectacular diversity & vulnerability of Hawaii’s native insects

Daniel Rubinoff

Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences

Hawaii is the most isolated landmass on the planet which is likely the reason for very rare evolutionary phenomena such as predatory caterpillars and carnivorous ice-dwelling Wekiu bugs. Hawaii’s unusual influence is also manifested in unprecedented diversity of evolutionary permutations in what are, elsewhere, usually unremarkable lineages. Unfortunately, Hawaiian insects have suffered from the destruction of native habitats and introduction of invasive species, losing much of their diversity. Saving what remains of Hawaii’s amazing endemic insects should be a priority and is something in which everyone can take part.

Daniel Rubinoff is an Associate Professor at the University of Hawaii, Manoa and the Director of the University of Hawai’i Insect Museum. He has authored more than 40 scientific papers and book chapters including work in internationally recognized journals like Science and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. His research has been covered in dozens of newspapers including the New York Times and Los Angeles Times, as well as prominent newspapers, websites, magazines and television stations in the U.S. and more than 20 foreign countries. In addition to teaching at the graduate and undergraduate level, Dan leads a molecular systematics and ecology lab that focuses on the use of DNA sequence data to understand evolutionary relationships in both threatened and invasive insects, with the intention of applying this research to practical problems in conservation and agriculture.

UH Hamilton Library, Room 301

3:30 – 4:30 PM

Admission free

Refreshments provided

Doors open at 3:15 PM

Presented by:

· Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education

· Office of Research Relations

· UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI’I AT MĀNOA LIBRARY

The University of Hawai’i is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution.

Aia I Ka Wai: Dialogues on [the Present and Future of] Hawaiian Music

2011-01-11T15:55:00.000-08:00

The below is quoted directly from an emailed press release. For more information, please see contact information at bottom.

The series “ ... aia i ka wai ... Dialogues on [the Present and Future of] Hawaiian Music” brings together stellar constellations of cultural and educational leaders in a collaboration of unprecedented scale. Join us in a series of dialogues to recognize accomplishments and envision new directions for studying, teaching, presenting and producing Hawaiian music in the 21st century.

The Hawaiian Renaissance of the 1970s solidified the foundation for the flourishing of Hawaiian performance traditions. Amidst the momentous transformations in the music and entertainment industries globally, and the vigor of Native Hawaiian cultural self-determination, we are at an opportune moment to reflect, imagine, and chart paths anew.

Series convenor Amy Ku‘uleialoha Stillman* moderates five events that will facilitate interaction among invited participants and audience. Join in on exploring common goals for education and industry sectors to strengthen excellence in Hawaiian music.

Location: Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 2645 Dole St. Honolulu, HI 96822

Time: 6:00-8:30 pm; preceded by musical performance from 5:00-5:45pm

Free admission and open to all. Parking is available adjacent to the Center.

Dates:

Friday January 21, 2010: Assessing the Documentary Record. What accomplisments should we be celebrating, and what endeavors should we be initiating?
Participants: DeSoto Brown, Jay Junker, Michael Keany, Maile Loo-Ching, Puakea Nogelmeier, Ricardo Trimillos

Friday February 4, 2010: Producing Culture. What are the conditions necessary to support creative excellence?
Participants: Manu Boyd, Keala Chock, Ku‘uipo Kumukahi, Michael Pili Pang, Cody Pueo Pata, Jordan Sramek

Friday February 25, 2010: Creating Culture. What is the place of creativity and innovation in a heritage tradition?
Participants: Snowbird Bento, Kekuhi Keali‘ikanaka‘oleohaililani, Nāpua Mākua, Taupouri Tangarō

Friday March 11, 2011: Nurturing the ‘Ōhā. What kinds of knowledge could strengthen the production and scholarship on Hawaiian performance?
Participants: Leilani Basham, Keawe Lopes, Nola Nahulu, Jon Osorio, Aaron Salā, Kalena Silva

Friday April 1, 2011: Gathering the Seeds. What new ‘ike have we generated about Hawaiian music and Hawaiian music studies? A summary and synthesis presented by series convenor Amy Ku‘uleialoha Stillman. Note: this program will take place at the UH Mānoa Music Department, Choral Rehearsal Room (Rm. 36).

Major sponsorship for this series is provided by the Dai Ho Chun endowment at University of Hawai‘i Foundation, the UH Mānoa College of Arts & Humanities, the Hawai‘inuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, and the UH Mānoa Departments of American Studies and Music.

* Amy Ku‘uleialoha Stillman is the 2010-2011 Dai Ho Chun Distinguished Visiting Professor in the College of Arts & Humanities at UH Mānoa.

For further information:
Visit us at http://amykstillman.wordpress.com/dialogues/
Visit our Facebook Event page at “aia i ka wai -- Dialogues . . . ”
Email Amy Ku‘uleialoha Stillman at amyk88@hawaii.edu

Lynette Furuhashi Retires

2010-12-31T19:26:00.000-08:00

Senior Pacific Specialist librarian Lynette Furuhashi has retired, effective December 31, 2010. Lynette's career as a librarian spanned more than 30 years, all of it in the Pacific Collection. She began as an intern under the late Renee Heyum, who was the Collection's first curator, and later joined the staff as a librarian. Following Heyum's retirement, Lynette worked with the late Karen Peacock to continue building the collection into what is today recognized as one of the world's premiere assemblies of Pacific material. While Karen often served as the more public face of the Pacific Collection, Lynette worked tirelessly behind the scenes, and remains one of the world's experts on the acquisition and management of Pacific library materials.

Researchers throughout the world have also greatly benefited over the years from Lynette's assistance, both in person and via her long-distance reference assistance. We wish Lynette all the best as she enters this new phase of her life, and while we will greatly miss her day-to-day presence, we are comforted by the fact that she has agreed to come in on a regular basis as a volunteer.

New Hamilton Library Opening Hours, Spring Semester

2010-12-13T12:57:00.000-08:00

The UH-Manoa Library administration has announced that, owing to reduced staffing, the Hamilton Library will open at 8:00 a.m. Monday through Friday during the spring semester. Hours in the Hawaiian & Pacific Collections will remain the same. For all library hours, click here.

Call for Papers: 2011 SPAS Graduate Student Conference

2010-12-06T12:22:00.000-08:00

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the UH-Manoa School of Pacific and Asian Studies:

Call for Papers: 2011 SPAS Graduate Student Conference

The School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa is seeking papers and presentations for its 2011 Graduate Student Conference. The conference will be held from April 3-5, 2011 on the University of Hawai'i at Manoa campus in Honolulu. The theme is "Crossing Borders: Emerging Trends in Pacific and Asian Studies."

In particular, we are looking for papers that incorporate:

New and emerging trends in Pacific and/or Asian Studies
Insights on the importance of area studies
Interdisciplinary approaches
Any other original research on the region(s)

Please submit abstracts of no more than 500 words to gradconf@hawaii.edu. Abstracts should include your name, discipline, university affiliation, and contact information.

Abstract submission deadline: January 28, 2011

Conference Dates and Location:
April 3-5, 2011
Center for Korean Studies
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Honolulu, HI

Please note that the SPAS Graduate Student Conference is immediately following the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference (March 31-April 3) and precedes the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) Annual Spring Symposium (April 6-8).

Limited travel subsidies to the conference site may be available.

Direct any questions to gradconf@hawaii.edu. Additional information is available on our website and on Facebook! These sites will be updated as additional information becomes available.

===================================
2011 SPAS Graduate Student Conference
3-5 April 2011
Center for Korean Studies
gradconf@hawaii.edu
http://www.hawaii.edu/shaps/gradconf/2011/index.html

“bro’Town & The Naked Samoans: Ritual Clowning Goes Prime Time”

2010-11-22T11:31:00.000-08:00

bro’Town, New Zealand’s first prime time animated series, is often referred to as a Pacific-spin on such U.S. staples as The Simpsons and South Park -- and it has elicited much the same reaction: Some find it wildly funny, others mildly offensive. What is often lost in the debate is the fact that the cartoon draws on the Samoan comedic tradition of fale aitu. Dr. Caroline Sinavaiana (UH-M Dept. of English) will explore these connections (and more) during a brown-bag discussion on Wednesday, Nov. 24, 12:00 - 1:20 p.m. at East West Center's Burns Hall Room 2118. For more info, click on image at right.

Modified Circulation Policy During Holiday Closure

2010-11-19T17:48:00.000-08:00

The University of Hawaii Library (along with the rest of the UH campus) will be closed during the first two weeks of the winter interim, from December 18 through January 2. To ensure that no overdue fines are incurred during this period, the standard two-week loan period for Hawaiian and Pacific Collection materials will be modified: All books that are checked out or renewed between December 4 and December 20, 2010, will be due on January 3, 2011, when the library reopens.

"Jamaica For Sale" Screening at HPU

2010-11-19T08:00:00.000-08:00

The award winning documentary Jamaica for Sale is screening on Friday November 19 at 5:30PM in Warren Auditorium at the Hawaii Pacific University Downtown Campus. The film documents the environmental, economic and social impacts of unsustainable tourism development, and is highly relevant to Hawaii and the Pacific. (UH students, faculty and staff who can't make it to the screening can also check the film out from the Wong Audio/Visual Center at Sinclair Library. Click here to view the Voyager record and submit a request for the film.)

2010 Bougainville and Solomon Islands Elections: Observers' Observations

2010-11-09T05:00:00.000-08:00

In May 2010, the Autonomous Region of Bougainville held elections for President and the House of Representatives. Meanwhile, in August 2010, the Solomon Islands held national parliamentary elections. During this brown-bag seminar, Gerard Finin, Karen Knudsen, and Scott Kroeker, all of the Pacific Islands Development Program (PIDP) at the East-West Center, will discuss their experiences as part of a multi-national election observation mission. For more info, click on image at right.

Thursday, 18 November 2010
Noon to 1:30 pm
East-West Center Burns Hall, Room 3012

"Complete a PhD in Pacific Studies@Victoria University of Wellington"

2010-11-07T21:12:00.000-08:00

Dr. April Henderson and Dr. Teresia Teaiwa will talk about their PhD program in Pacific Studies and what it is like to live and study in the vibrant capital city of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Date:Monday, 8 November 2010
Time: Noon to 1:30 pm
Place: UHM Moore Hall 319 (Tokioka Room)

For information, please call the Center for Pacific Islands Studies at 956-7700.

MaCauley Distinguished Lecture: Celebrating (and Calibrating) Connections

2010-11-03T19:27:00.000-07:00

Dr. Teresia K. Teaiwa will deliver the opening keynote address for the Center for Pacific Islands Studies annual conference on Thursday, November 4, from 4:15-5:30 p.m., with a reception and book launch to follow. For more information, click on the image at right.

Celebrating Connections: An Exhibition of Contemporary Pacific Artists

2010-11-03T13:58:00.000-07:00

In conjunction with the annual Center for Pacific Islands Studies conference, an exhibition is being mounted at the Arts At Marks Garage. The show opened on Nov. 2 and runs through Nov. 27. For more information, click on image at right.

CPIS pre-conference events

2010-11-03T13:02:00.000-07:00

The Center for Pacific Islands Studies annual conference begins this week. Several pre-conference events are also planned. For a complete list, click on image at right. For conference information, click here to visit the Celebrating Connections website.

Univ. of Oregon Scholarship Opportunity

2010-10-21T05:07:00.000-07:00

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the University of Oregon. For more information, please contact Megan Sullivan (contact info at end of email):

Dear International Educator Colleague,

My name is Megan Sullivan and I'm an International student advisor at the University of Oregon. The University of Oregon offers many scholarship opportunities for international students and one specifically to students from the Pacific Island Nations. I have attached a pdf with more information for you to review. If you know of students who are interested in coming to the University of Oregon please share this with them via email or post it on your publications board.

I would like to specifically call your attention to one of the International Affiars Endowed scholarships that is offered specifically to students from the Pacific Island Nations. Please see the desc-ription below. Last year we were unable to award this scholarship because we had no applicants. Please help us to reach students from these nations to provide them with this opportunity.

Maradel Gale/Florence Krummel Pacific Island Scholarship: Established by Maradel Krummel Gale, University of Oregon alumna, (J.D., 1974) and associate professor emerita of sustainable community development in the Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management (PPPM). One scholarship of approximately $3,000 may be awarded each year. New and continuing students from the Pacific Island nations of Micronesia, Polynesia or Melanesia, including the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu may apply. Selection of recipients for this scholarship shall give priority to applicants who are fluent in a language indigenous to the islands, such as Belauan, Yapese, Satawalese, Marshallese, Samoan, Pohnpeian, Cook Islands Maori, Fijian, Bislama, or other recognized island languages.

We appreciate your help informing students of the opportunities that are available to them. If you have any questions please let me know.

Megan

__________________________________________
Megan Sullivan
International Student Advisor

International Affairs
333 Oregon Hall
Phone: (541) 346-1202 Fax: (541) 346-1232
http://international.uoregon.edu

Open Access Week: Oct. 25-29, 2010

2010-10-19T09:02:00.000-07:00

The below is quoted directly from a press release circulated by the UH-M library.

The UH-Manoa campus will celebrate Open Access Week from October 25 - 29, 2010. Faculty scholars and researchers routinely give away the fruits of their labor to for-profit publishers of scholarly communication.

1) Research library budgets cannot sustain ever-increasing subscription costs for scholarly journals. Open access journals provide a different model for scholarly communication that empowers the author rather than the publisher.

2) When research is published in open access journals and/or placed in open access institutional repositories, members of the public can access needed research results, which are often funded with tax-payer monies.

3) A growing body of research suggests that open access to research articles and research data spurs on new discoveries and is more cited than research locked behind a pay wall.

Join the UH-Manoa Library in exploring these myriad efforts to liberate scholarly communication during the international celebration of Open Access Week 2010. Events organized for the week are:

COLLECTIVE OWNERSHIP OF KNOWLEDGE:
DIGITAL LEARNERS CHALLENGING OUR EDUCATIONAL ASSUMPTIONS

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

12:00 p.m.
Queen Liliuokalani Center, Room 412
RSVP required as light lunch will be served
*RSVP at http://tinyurl.com/2dv5m4k
Speaker: Christine Sorensen, Dean of UH Mânoa College of Education

OPEN ACCESS IN 2010:
MAXIMIZING THE BENEFITS AND SECURING THE FUTURE

Thursday, October 28, 2010

4:00 p.m.
Sinclair Library, Heritage Reading Room
RSVP required wine and pupus will be served.
*RSVP at http://tinyurl.com/2bveu36
Speaker: Catherine Nancarrow, Consulting Editor, Archives of Internal Medicine, and
formerly with Public Library of Science (PLoS)

VISIT THE GRADUATE STUDENT OPEN ACCESS INFORMATION TABLE

Tuesday, October 26 and Thursday, October, 28

11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Campus Center
Talk to graduate students about Open Access issues, receive free information and get an Open Access pen!

For more information, please call Beth Tillinghast (956-6130) or email betht@hawaii.edu.

Call for submissions: Storyboard

2010-10-15T12:29:00.000-07:00

The below is quoted directly from a call for submissions circulated by the editors of Storyboard:

Call for Submissions

As the Pacific Islands brace themselves for yet another tidal wave of change, it is our stories that will help us to navigate our way. Storyboard, the University of Guam's literary journal, is seeking short stories, poems, essays, art, and photography, which address the theme, "Navigating the Future."

Storyboard is a multilingual journal with a focus on Pacific writing. We welcome submissions from published and unpublished writers in and from the region or writings about the region.

All submissions must be e-mailed to Storyboard11@gmail.com on or before November 11, 2010. Please e-mail Storyboard11@gmail.com or contact P.K. Harmon at (671) 735-3038 or Leslie Reynolds at (671) 735-3039 for more information.

Through October 29, 2010: American Periodicals Series Online

2010-10-14T12:25:00.000-07:00

Hawaii Specialist Librarian Dore Minatodani reports that, for a limited time, the library has available a trial subscription to two online resources that are very useful for U.S. and Hawaiian historical research. Coverage goes back to the year 1740. Access is available only to UH-Manoa students, faculty, staff and affiliates, and requires a UH user-name and password; access is only available until October 29, 2010.

American Periodicals Series Online
http://micro189.lib3.hawaii.edu/ezproxy/details.php?dbId=56414

American Periodicals Series Online contains over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.

American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries
http://micro189.lib3.hawaii.edu/ezproxy/details.php?dbId=56415

American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries is a full-text resource containing full-color scans of original documents archived by the Center for Research Libraries. The collection spans the nineteenth century through the dawn of the twentieth century, containing labor, trade, literary, scientific, and photographic periodicals, as well as other historically-significant titles.

SEARCH TIP

When you access either of these resources, the default search option will have all of UHM's Proquest products pre-selected. It is best to instead limit your search to just these new resources, by using the "Select Multiple Databases" option, un-selecting everything, then selecting these two resources. See short demo video at http://screencast.com/t/Y2JiZDY3MjE.

CPIS Conference Announcement

2010-10-07T11:21:00.000-07:00

The Center for Pacific Islands Studies has announced its annual conference. Celebration Connections: 60 Years of Pacific Studies will be held in Honolulu on November 4-6, 2010. The conference website is online at www.hawaii.edu/cpis/2010conf/. Information on several pre-conference events (including two seminars and an exhibition of contemporary Pacific art) can be found at http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis/news_3.html; a conference blog is also available at http://celebratingconnections.blogspot.com/.

Pacific Islands Virtual Climate Change Library

2010-09-24T15:12:00.000-07:00

The Pacific Islands Virtual Climate Change Library was recently launched as a collaborative effort between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Oceanographic Data Center, Pacific Climate Information System, coastal managers in American Samoa and Samoa, University of Hawaii School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, and other Pacific Islands partners.

According to the site itself, the Virtual Library "provides web accessible climate information and products such as adaptation guides, case studies, and decision support tools relevant to Pacific Island coastal managers."

To view the site, click here or on the image at right. For more on researching climate change within the library and on the Internet, see also our previous blog posting on the subject.

Library Sciences Scholarship Opportunity for Pacific Islands Students

2010-09-21T19:26:00.000-07:00

Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL) and the University of North Texas (UNT) Department of Library and Information Sciences, have announced a joint scholarship program for candidates from American Samoa; the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI); the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM: Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei and Yap); Guam; the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI); and the Republic of Palau. The scholarships will be available to up to twenty-three students, and allow them to enroll in UNT's online master's degree in library sciences. For more information on the scholarship program, click here.

Traveling Exhibit: A Voyage To Health

2010-09-17T08:56:00.000-07:00

UH-Manoa's Hamilton Library is currently hosting a traveling exhibit mounted by the National Institute of Health's National Library of Medicine. A Voyage to Health explores the resurgence of Native Hawaiian culture as a means of healing the soul of the community. It focuses specifically on the legacy and revival of voyaging, Kaho'olawe and the Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement. Included as part of the exhibit are reproductions of two photographs from the Steve Thomas Traditional Micronesian Navigation Collection, which is permanently housed in the Pacific Collection.

The exhibit will be in Hamilton Library from Sept. 17 – November 27, 2010 in the CLIC area of the first floor lobby.

Two important online resources for researching the history of Filipinos in Hawaii

2010-09-16T19:37:00.000-07:00

With the help of the UH-M Library's Desktop Networking Services department, an important, unpublished manuscript has been digitized and mounted online as part of the library's Open Access Initiative. Ruben Alcantara's "Filipino History in Hawaii before 1946: The Sakada Years of Filipinos in Hawaii," which he'd previously donated to the Hawaiian Collection, can now be accessed online via Scholarspace, at the URL:
http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/17651

The photograph illustrating his manuscript (which is also reproduced here) is from the Hawaiian Collection's other digitized collection on Filipinos in Hawaii, "Filipino Workers in Hawaii 1926" at http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/fil-labor/index.php

Mai Poina Walking Tours: Sunday Sept. 5 through Friday Sept. 10.

2010-09-03T09:11:00.000-07:00

The below was circulated by Craig Howes, Director of the UH-Manoa Center for Biographical Research:

Mai Poina Historical Walking Tours of the Overthrow of the Kingdom, Sunday, September 5 to Friday, September 10.

The Hawai'i Pono'i Coalition presents the return of the popular historic walking tours recreating four pivotal days leading up to the overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy.

Four walking tours will be presented each evening on the grounds of 'Iolani Palace from Sept. 5 – Sept. 10, 2010. Admission is free, but capacity is limited. The public is asked to call 262-5900 to reserve spaces on the tours, which will be conducted nightly at 5:00, 5:20, 5:40 and 6:00 p.m.

The Mai Poina walking tours were first presented in 2009. Over the tour's four-night run, an estimated 700 people. Written by local playwright Victoria Kneubuhl, the tours present dramatic interpretations of history at six stations at and around the 'Iolani Palace.

Among the actors performing are Will Ha'o, Moses Goods, Hina Kneubuhl, Charles Timtim, Wil Kahele, Nyla Fujii-Babb, Cynthia See, Craig Howes, Victoria Kneubuhl, Shiro Kawai, and Yuklin Aluli. The Hawaiian scholars also commenting on the events and their aftermath include Jon Osorio, Melody Kapilialoha MacKenzie, Davianna Pomaika'i McGregor, Yuklin Aluli, and Leilani Basham.

Founded in 2007, the Hawai'i Pono'ï Coalition is a consortium of Native Hawaiian-serving organizations dedicated to telling the true history of Hawai'i. For more information, please visit www.huiohawaiiponoi.org.

The Mai Poina Walking Tours are co-sponsored by the Center for Biographical Research and the Hawai'i Council for the Humanities, with additional support from the "We The People" initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Hawai'i and Pacific events, week of Sept. 7-10, 2010

2010-09-02T08:00:00.000-07:00

The Center for Pacific Islands Studies has announced several events for the week of September 7 through 10:

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Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania: Opportunity to Participate in 2011 Meeting in Waikiki

presented by anthropologists from CPIS and the UHM Department of Anthropology

Tuesday, 7 September 2010

12 noon-1 pm

UHM Korean Studies Conference Room

The Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO) is an international organization dedicated to comparative study of Pacific topics (for detailed background, see www.asao.org). ASAO holds annual meetings with a special collegial format designed to facilitate discussion and develop topics for publication. The 2011 ASAO annual meeting will be held in Waikiki, 9-12 February, and will be an excellent opportunity for UH graduate students and faculty to meet and interact with scholars interested in the Pacific from around the world.

This brown-bag gathering will provide an overview of ASAO's special meeting format from the perspective of several UH faculty who have organized sessions at previous ASAO meetings, a preview of session topics proposed for the February 2011 meeting, guidelines for how to get involved in a session, and information about registration fee waivers for Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander session participants.

The presentation is cosponsored by the UHM Department of Anthropology and the UHM Center for Pacific Islands Studies.

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Fall 2010 Speaker Series

INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL STUDIES CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

"Merata Mita and the Idea of a Pacific Cinema"

Wednesday, 8 September 2010

12 noon-1:20pm

EWC Burns Hall Room 2118

This panel of friends and colleagues will explore Merata's life and work as a leading Maori filmmaker, teacher, and voice in cinema.

Moderated by Wimal Dissanayake, Director of International Cultural Studies, UHM

Marlene Booth, Academy for Creative Media, UHM
Will be speaking about the films and vision of Merata.

Anne Misawa, Academy for Creative Media, UHM
Will be speaking on how Merata has influenced the next generation of Pacific Islander filmmakers.

Konrad Ng, Academy for Creative Media, UHM
Will be speaking about Merata's contribution to global indigenous media production and exhibition.

Makerita Urale, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, UHM
Will provide an intimate portrait of Merata and discuss the socio-political context/history of her films in New Zealand and for Maori.

Sponsored by:
The UHM/EWC International Cultural Studies Program

Telephone: 808-944-7593

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"Living in "Hawaiian Land": Cultural Diversity in the Wai`anae District"

Masaya Shijo, Tokyo Metropolitan University and East-West Center

Thursday, 9 September 2010

12 noon

EWC Burns Hall 3015

For more information, click on flier at right.

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"Palauans Dancing to an Okinawan Folk Song: Memories of Japanese Imperialism and the Pacific War in Palau"

by Shingo Iitata, Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Thursday, 9 September 2010

3:00 pm

UHM Crawford Hall 105

Cosponsored by the UHM Anthropology Department and the Center for Pacific Islands Studies.

For more information, click on flier at right.

More On Digital Theses

2010-09-01T08:38:00.000-07:00

A recent posting on this site discussed sources of Hawai'i- and Pacific-related digital theses. One we failed to mention: The Australian National University's "Australian Research Online" searches the digital holdings of numerous Australian universities, government and NGO research repositories, and returns results on theses, preprints, postprints, journal articles, book chapters, musical recordings and pictures. The results are a mix of abstracts and full-text. For reference purposes, we've added "Australian Research Online" to the original blog posting -- to view the list of other online resources, click here.

Documentary on Tuvalu to screen on PBS

2010-08-31T16:29:00.000-07:00

Time and Tide, a documentary which follows a group of expatriate Tuvaluans as they return home (and in the process explores both globalization and the threats of global warming), will screen at 8:30 and 11 p.m. this Thursday, Sept. 2, on PBS Hawai'i.The film is also available to UH-Manoa students, faculty and staff at Wong Audio/Visual Center. To view the Pacific Islanders in Communication website for the film, click on the image at right; to view the library's Voyager record, click here.

History Workshop Series. De-Centering the Nation State: Historical Methodology within a Pacific Geography

2010-08-23T17:16:00.000-07:00

The UH-Manoa Department of History has announced a new History Workshop series. Below is quoted directly from an email circulated by Suzanna Reiss and Matt Romaniello. For more information on David Chappell's talk, click on the image at top right; for more on the series in general, click on the image at bottom right.

Dear Colleagues,

The Department of History invites you to join the inaugural series of our new History Workshop. This year's theme is "De-Centering the Nation State: Historical Methodology within a Pacific Geography."

The series will being with "Transnations in Oceania: Colonial States and Indigenous Identities" by David Chappell, Associate Professor of Pacific and World History, on Friday, September 3rd at 2:30 pm in the History Department Library (Sakamaki Hall A201).

We've attached flyers for Professor Chappell's talk and the upcoming series. We would greatly appreciate it if you would distribute this information among your own colleagues. We would be happy to send you paper copies if you would be interested in distributing them or posting a copy.

We hope to see you all on September 3rd, or at one of our upcoming talks. If you were interested in presenting as part of this year's workshop, or presenting in one of our future series, please let us know. Furthermore, if you know of a graduate student who might be interested in joining our Graduate Student Forum next May, please encourage them to contact us.

Sincerely,
Suzanna Reiss and Matt Romaniello, Assistant Professors of History

Wireless Printing Now Available In Library

2010-08-19T16:06:00.000-07:00

Thanks to the Library's Desktop Networking Services department, you can now print documents off your laptop at various locations in Hamilton and Sinclair libraries, using the UH wireless network.
The address of the GOPRINT printer system is:
http://hl-printeron.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/

After logging in with your UH username/password, you can choose any one of three printer locations in Hamilton:

BHSD (Business, Humanities, & Social Sciences area, first floor),
HAWNPAC (Hawaiian & Pacific Collections Reading Room, fifth floor), or
SCITECH (Science & Technology reference area (first floor, Hamilton Addition).

The SCITECH location is a color printer, which is $0.75 per page; other locations are $0.09 per page. When you select a printer location the print request (JOBNAME) on the GOPRINT paystation window is your UH login name. Print requests disappear after two hours if not executed or deleted.

Sinclair Library has two wireless printing locations.

Dr. Karen M. Peacock: 1948-2010

2010-08-16T17:24:00.000-07:00

It is with deep sadness that we report the passing of Dr. Karen M. Peacock.

Karen Peacock was professor emeritus and retired curator of the Pacific Collection, Hamilton Library, University of Hawai'i at Manoa. She passed away peacefully on August 13, 2010 after a ten-month battle with cancer.

Karen's career with the UH Library spanned more than thirty years. She began in the Pacific Collection, where she briefly worked in a temporary position before moving into a tenure-track position with the Social Sciences & Humanities reference department. She returned to the Pacific Collection in 1980 as a Pacific specialist and in 1987 assumed curatorship of the collection upon the retirement of R. Renee Heyum. In addition to her work as curator of the Pacific Collection, she also served as department head for the Hawaiian & Pacific Collections (formerly Special Collections) at Hamilton Library from 2001 until her retirement. Karen became ill late last year and officially retired on February 1st of this year.

Born in Richmond, Indiana, Karen spent her childhood years in

Micronesia

where her father, Daniel J. Peacock, served as the director of library services during the Trust Territory era. After receiving her BA from Earlham College (Richmond, Indiana), she returned to Micronesia, and in Saipan she worked briefly for the Congress of Micronesia, then as a teacher at Marianas High School.

Karen received her Masters of Library Science in 1973, an MA in Pacific Studies in 1978 and PhD in Pacific History in 1990. She has more than twenty publications to her credit and served at various times on the editorial boards of the Center for Pacific Islands Studies' Pacific monograph series, and for the journals The Contemporary Pacific, Pacific Studies (BYU-Hawai'i), and the Micronesian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities.

Karen was devoted to the Pacific, especially

Micronesia

. She gave a great deal of her time and energy to supporting the work of Pacific libraries and archives, while also advising and mentoring many of the islanders with whom she came into contact. In recognition of her efforts, she was honored by the Pacific Islands Association of Libraries and Archives with its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. Other awards bestowed upon her included the Outstanding Alumni Award by the UH School of Library and Information Studies, the UH Library's Nina D.P. Horio Excellence in Librarianship Award, and the Dr. Sarah K. Vann Professional Services Award (UH Library and Information Studies program).

Karen is survied by her life partner, Kim Haines, father Daniel J. Peacock, sister Paula Bertolin (brother-in-law Gordon), brother Daniel L. (sister-in-law Lisa) and nieces Caroline and Beth Bertolin.

Arrangements for a memorial service are still pending at this time.

Finding Hawaii- and Pacific-related dissertations & theses

2010-08-04T17:08:00.000-07:00

PhD dissertations and masters' theses often mark the first sustained, scholarly research into a specific subject -- as such, they're an invaluable foundation for all future research. The Hawaiian Collection is a depository for dissertations and theses produced at the University of Hawai'i, and both the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections also regularly seek to acquire relevant dissertations and theses produced at universities worldwide.

As they are cataloged, dissertations and theses are added to the library's online Voyager catalog, while Hawaiian and Pacific Collections staff also compile an annual list of all University of Hawaii dissertations and theses, including those awaiting cataloging -- for information regarding this publication e-mail hawnpac@hawaii.edu. In addition to these resources, Pacific Collection Librarian Lynette Furuhashi has compiled a listing of all Pacific-related dissertations and theses (more than 450) produced at UH between 1923 and 2008; to view the PDF file, click here. For a list of Hawaiian language dissertations and theses in the Hawaiian Collection, click here.

Although we attempt to collect as extensively as possible all scholarly research related to Hawai'i and the Pacific, we cannot gather everything. Here are a few important sources of dissertations and theses from throughout the Pacific:

For UH-Manoa students, faculty and staff (requires log-in):

Dissertations and Theses (formerly Digital Dissertations): Includes bibliographic citations for the doctoral and master's work of authors from more than 1,000 graduate schools and universities dating back to 1861. More than 750,000 dissertations and theses from 1997 on have been digitized and are available for PDF download. The majority of Hawai'i- and Pacific-related work found here will have been published in U.S. institutions.
Dissertations and Theses @ University of Hawai'i: A subset of Dissertations and Theses; provides access to full text of most University of Hawai'i theses and dissertations, from 1996 to present.

Open access sites:

Australasian Digital Theses Program: A database of theses produced by postgraduate research students at Australian and New Zealand universities. It provides a mix of citations/abstracts and downloadable full-text files.
ANU Digital Theses: Electronic versions of theses produced (and deposited voluntarily) by scholars at Australian National University. Includes Pacific and non-Pacific content.
Australian Research Online: The Australian National University's online database searches the digital holdings of numerous Australian universities, government and NGO research repositories, and returns results on theses, preprints, postprints, journal articles, book chapters, musical recordings and pictures. The results are a mix of abstracts and full-text.
Research Space @ Auckland: The digital repository for University of Auckland. Includes a mix of citations and downloadable full-text.
University of the South Pacific Digital Theses Program: Provides access to a mix of abstracts and full-text for theses produced by students at the University of the South Pacific.

New digital resource: AsiaPacificfilms.com

2010-07-15T16:08:00.000-07:00

The Hawaiian & Pacific Collections have entered into a three-year trial subscription with AsiaPacificfilms.com, which allows streaming online access to complete films. At present, the library is subscribing to four films: The Land Has Eyes (pictured); Act Of War: The Overthrow Of The Hawaiian Nation; Nation Within; and Simple Courage. Access is limited to UH-Manoa students, faculty and staff -- the films can be reached by clicking on the titles above; alternately, to access a "group record" that links to all four titles, click here. For other online, Hawaiian & Pacific film resources available to UH-M students, faculty and staff, see also our previous entry on "Films On Demand."

Mau Piailug: 1932(?)-2010

2010-07-13T10:26:00.000-07:00

Several local news outlets, including the Star- Advertiser, are reporting the passing of master navigator Mau Piailug.
(The photo at right was taken in June 1984 by Steve Thomas, and is part of the Pacific Collection's Steve Thomas Traditional Micronesian Navigation online photo archive, which documents Thomas' time living and studying with Piailug and other Satawalese navigators.)

Public presentation: "A Pacific Librarian/Archivist: walking a fine line while holding a huge umbrella"

2010-07-12T12:47:00.000-07:00

The Hawaiian & Pacific Collections Lecture Series and Library Forum Committee presents:

"A Pacific Librarian/Archivist: walking a fine line while holding a huge umbrella"

A presentation by Eleanor Kleiber
Librarian & Archivist of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community in Noumea, New Caledonia

Where: Hamilton Library, room 301. Weds. July 21.
When 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.

Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.

What:
Libraries and archives are often grouped together, either intentionally or by default under vague amalgamations called knowledge- or information management. As the Librarian/Archivist of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), Eleanor Kleiber is putting the logic of this grouping to the test at an organizational level, while also witnessing it from a regional perspective. This presentation will discuss the practical results of combining library and archives functions.

Who:
Eleanor Kleiber graduated from Mid Pacific Institute in 1998. During her undergraduate degree she studied abroad at the University of the South Pacific (USP) in Suva, Fiji and decided to become a Pacific Librarian. In 2006, she graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Master of Library and Information Studies and a Master of Archival Studies. Kleiber currently manages SPC’s two main offices in Noumea and Suva. She is busy building a new library space for the Suva office, and implementing an electronic document and records management system organization‐wide.

Government Documents and Map Collections re-open in Hamilton Library

2010-07-08T21:38:00.000-07:00

Nearly six years after the October 2004 flood devastated the ground floor of Hamilton Library, displaced departments and collections are being moved back into the renovated basement. The Government Documents and Maps Collections have returned to the ground floor of Hamilton Library, Room 6. Summer hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 am-5:00 pm; closed Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.

The Government Documents collection is an open-shelf collection, and walk-in users are welcome. To use materials in the Map Collection, it is strongly recommended that appointments be made ahead of time, but walk-ins will also be accommodated. The new GIS laboratory and classroom is currently being set up, and GIS services are anticipated to resume by the start of the fall semester -- in the meantime, GIS services will continue to be available on an appointment basis.

Both the Government Documents and Maps Collections have extensive Hawaii- and Pacific-related holdings -- their return to their permanent home is a great boon to researchers of the region.

Nuclear Diaspora: Bikini and Enewetak

2010-07-01T16:45:00.000-07:00

The Pacific Collection recently completed work on its latest digital collection, Nuclear Diaspora: Bikini and Enewetak.

The United States conducted more than eighty nuclear weapons tests on and around Bikini and Enewetak Atolls (Marshall Islands) between 1946 and 1958. The 878 images in this collection span the years from 1946-1988, and document the lives of Bikini and Enewetak islanders after they were relocated from their home islands as a result of these tests. The images derive from the anthropological fieldwork of Dr. Leonard "Len" Mason and Dr. Robert Kiste, both of whom served as longtime faculty members at the University of Hawaii-Manoa prior to their retirement from fulltime teaching (Mason in 1969 and Kiste in 2002).

To date the Pacific Collection has posted more than 13,000 images online via seven collections. Links to each collection can be found on the Pacific Collection web-page.

Dr. Jack A. Tobin: 1920-2010

2010-06-25T16:22:00.000-07:00

We regret to note the passing of Dr. Jack A. Tobin, a highly respected Pacific anthropologist who devoted his life's work to the Marshall Islands. Tobin first went to the Marshalls in 1950 as a student of Dr. Len Mason, to work on the Pacific Science Board's Coral Atoll Project (CAP) -- an initiative meant to study the needs of atoll dwellers with limited resources and growing populations. Arno Atoll was chosen as the first CAP research site.

Later in 1950, Tobin was hired as an anthropological field consultant by the Civil Administration Unit of Naval Operations. During the Trust Territory Administration era, he served as the sole district anthropologist for the Marshall Islands, a position he held through 1957. Between 1967 and 1975, he served as community development adviser to the Marshall Islands. (The photo above shows Dr. Tobin in 1957, preparing to land on Ejit. It is taken from the Pacific Collection's online Trust Territory Archives Photo Collection.)

A few years back Dr. Tobin began donating his research materials to the Pacific Collection. Shortly before his passing last week, he transferred the remainder of these materials, including some twelve linear feet of manuscripts and an estimated 1,500 photos and 35mm slides. The manuscript collection is as yet unprocessed; in the meantime, the Pacific Collection has begun work digitizing Dr. Tobin's photos and slides, with the aim of making them available online later this year.

Dr. Robert Kiste, professor emeritus of anthropology at UH and a longtime friend of Tobin's, has written an obituary notice for the Pacific Islands Report. It can be viewed online at: http://pidp.org/pireport/2010/June/06-25-12.htm

More Hawai'i Newspapers Online

2010-06-16T17:45:00.000-07:00

As part of an ongoing project funded by several large National Endowment for the Humanities grants, Hawaiian Collection curator Joan Hori announced today that another round of 19th- and early-20th century Hawai'i newspapers has been added to the Library of Congress' open-access "Chronicling America" site, where they are now full-text searchable. The newspapers in this project are all English-language editions, and complement the ongoing work on The Ho'olapa'i: Hawaiian Nupepa Collection (a joint venture of Alu Like, Inc., Bishop Museum and UH-Hilo's Hale Kuamo'o) to digitize Hawaiian language newspapers.

For more on the Library's participation in the Chronicling America project, click here. For more on researching in early Hawaii newspapers (both English and Hawaiian language) see also this previous blog entry. Below is the complete list of newspapers currently available on the Chronicling America site. For each newspaper listed, the dates immediately following the title indicate the overall publication period of the paper (question marks indicate an unclear final publication date). Dates that appear below the paper title indicate those that have been digitized as part of this project. The "Yes" that follows certain of the date ranges indicates that a historical essay on the newspaper (composed by UH Library staff) is also available online:

Austin's Hawaiian weekly. (Honolulu [Hawaii) 1899-190?
1899-06-17 1900-05-12 Yes

The Daily bulletin. (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895
1882-02-01 1894-06-30

The daily herald. (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887
   1886-09-01 1887-07-30 Yes

Daily Honolulu press. (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886
   1885-09-01 1886-06-03 Yes

The Democrat. (Honolulu, T.H.) 1910-1910
1910-10-25 1910-11-08 Yes

Evening bulletin. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii) 1895-1912
1895-05-16 1897-08-31

The Hawaiian gazette. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918
   1877-03-07 1913-12-30 Yes

The Honolulu republican. (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902
1900-06-14 1902-01-08

The Honolulu times. (Honolulu [Hawaii) 1902-1911
1902-10-01 1911-02-01 Yes

The Independent. (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905
1895-06-24 1905-10-24 Yes

The Independent. (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1895
1895-05-01 1895-06-15 Yes

Saturday press. (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885
1880-09-04 1885-08-29 Yes