Hawaiian & Pacific Collections

--> Pacific Collection librarian Eleanor Kleiber recently finished processing the Jack Tobin Papers , and they are now available for public use. Jack Adair Tobin, Ph.D. (June 15, 1920-June 18, 2010) was an anthropologist who worked in the Marshall Islands, beginning in 1950. This manuscript collection, which comprises roughly six linear feet of material and covers the bulk of Dr. Tobin's professional life, is extremely important in that it contains primary source documentation of numerous aspects of Marshallese life during a period of intense change. In addition to the physical materials in the collection, nearly 2,000 photographs have also been digitized and are available online . A finding aid for the collection is also available online . The Jack Tobin Collection is one of more than 60 Pacific manuscript collections -- because these collections are comprised primarily of unpublished material, they are an important tool when searching for primary source docume...

The University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa Library recently coordinated the purchase of a subscription to  Ethnographic Video Online , which provides faculty, staff and students throughout the UH system with online access to  over 1,300 hours of streaming video, including ethnographic films, documentaries, feature films and previously unpublished fieldwork.  The collection includes the work of a number of UH faculty members, as well as several highly regarded Hawai'i- and Pacific-based filmmakers, including (among many others) Vilsoni Hereniko, Eddie and Myrna Kamae, Tom Coffman, Stephanie J. Castillo, Peter Rockford Espiritu, Puhipau, Wendy Arbeit. In addition to searching out specific titles, users can browse in a variety of ways, including by Cultural Group, Places Discussed, and People Discussed. The purchase of this collection was made possible in part by a generous donation from Eddie and Myrna Kamae’s Hawaiian Legacy Foundation. Special thanks also go to Kris Anderson, w...

The Hawaiian Collection has announced that the transcripts for all UH-Manoa Center for Oral History projects are now available via Scholarspace, the library's digital repository, at   http://scholarspace.manoa. hawaii.edu/handle/10125/21086 The projects include: 1924 Filipino Strike on Kauai "Captive on the US Mainland" Closing of Sugar Plantations: Interviews with Families of Hamakua and Kau, Hawaii Era of Change: Oral Histories of Civilians in World War II Hawaii Five Life Histories Hawaii Political History Documentation Project Hui Panalaau: Hawaiian Colonists in the Pacific, 1935–1942 Ii/Brown Family: Oral Histories Ka Poe Kau Lei: An Oral History of Hawaii's Lei Sellers Kalihi: Place of Transition Koloa: An Oral History of a Kauai Community Kona Heritage Stores Oral History Project Lanai Ranch: The People of Koele and Keomuku Life Histories of Native Hawaiians Oral Histories of African Americans Oral History of Robert Richards Midkiff...

The Annie E. Casey Foundation's annual Kids Count databook is an important source of statistical information on a variety of subjects. The 2013 edition was recently, released, and can be downloaded from the Kids Count Data Center .

Climate Change and the Pacific Islands is an National Science Foundation funded website that includes videos and other teaching resources related to climate change. to quote the site: " The media resources in this collection examine ecosystems on volcanic high islands and low-lying atolls and the climate-related threats to these ecosystems. They also highlight human activities that strengthen or weaken ecosystems, as well as actions that islanders are taking to reduce the threats they face and help preserve their future." Click on the image to view the site.

The 2011 and 2012 issues of the  Hawaiian Journal of History were recently uploaded to eVols , the UH-M library's digital repository of material that is produced outside of the University of Hawaii. (The library also hosts a second repository, Scholarspace , specifically for material produced by the UH community.) All volumes of the Hawaiian Journal of History, from vol. 1 (1967) through vol. 46 (2012) are freely available for download (and also full-text searchable) at  http://evols.library.manoa. hawaii.edu/handle/10524/9  .

Hamilton Library's Desktop Networking Services department recently completed an upload of more than 900 issues of Ka Leo o Hawaii , the UH-Manoa campus newspaper. The issues, which cover the years 1922-1949, are freely available via Scholarspace , the library's open-access digital repository. The year's 1924 and 1925 have not yet been digitized; all other digital versions can be found at  http://scholarspace.manoa. hawa ii.edu/handle/10125/16400

The Honolulu Star-Advertiser website is currently offering free access to all content, from now through Nov. 3. On a related note, UH-Manoa students, faculty and staff have access to full text of the Honolulu Star-Advertiser , from June 1, 2010 to one day before the present, via the library's subscription to Proquest  (UH ID required). At this same site, you will also find links to full text of the Honolulu Advertiser for November 2002 through May 2010 and the Honolulu Star Bulletin for March 1999 through June 2010 (June 2010 being the point when the Honolulu Advertiser and the Honolulu Star Bulletin were merged to form the Star Advertiser ). Also of potential interest in terms of local newspapers: the UH Archives' Hawaii War Records Depository online photo collection includes more than 600 photographs from either the Advertiser or Star Bulletin, shot during WWII.

The three-volume Hawaiian Legends Index  is well-known among Hawai'i researchers (and librarians). A searchable online version is now available on the internet. Below is a message circulated by Hawaiian Collection librarian Dore Minatodani: Hawaiian  Legends   Index  - now online The 2010 revision of the Hawai'i State Library's Hawaiian  Legends   Index  is now online in searchable form, at  http://manoa.hawaii.edu/ hawaiiancollection/ legends . The  Legends   Index  offers subject access to  77 publications  of Hawaiian  legends  in English. Subjects indexed include: places  (e.g.  Kaneohe ,  Waikiki ,  Kona (Hawaii island) ,  Kona (Kauai) ,  Kona (Oahu) ,  Kona (Molokai) ,  Haleakala , heiau ,  fishponds ,  tombs ,  temples ) mythological and historical figures  (e.g.  Laka ,  Hiiaka ,  Gods and Goddesses ,  Kapiolan...

The below is copied directly from a press release circulated by Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies and the Hawai'inuiakea School of Hawaiian Knowledge: UHM HAWAIIAN STUDIES MOUNTS A WEB SITE TO SERVE THE HAWAIIAN NATION IN LAND RESEARCH! We are proud to announce that the  AVAKONOHIKI.ORG  website is being published today in order to serve as a  Hoʻokupu no Ka Lāhui , a gift to the Hawaiian Nation, from the students of the  UHM Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies [KCHS] . Working on the AVA Konohiki project, funded by a federal grant from the  Administration of Native Americans [ANA], and through the Edith Kanakaʻole Foundation [EKF],  our Hawaiian students have created a web site to provide free and easy access to all 8,500 of the Hawaiian Kingdom Land Commission Awards [LCAs] and LCA Testimonies, as well as LCA maps for the 81 Ahupuaʻa of Oʻahu. They even have video webinars to walk you through LCA land and map research!...

The University of Otago is currently hosting Charting the Land on the Ocean: Pacific Exploration, 1520-1876 , an exhibit that features books and maps found in various of its campus library collections. The exhibit also includes an online component with samples of these same items, along with historical documentation. Many of these works can also be found in various forms (either the original publications, or facsimile copies) in the UH-Manoa Library's Hawaiian and Pacific Collections. Selected images from various rare materials in the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections are also available via this recently launched online collection:  http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/pacific/

Volume 24, no. 2 (2012) of The Contemporary Pacific was recently released. This latest edition of TCP features artwork by Ani O'Neill and contributions by  Jonathan D. Baker, David Chappell, Stuart Dawrs, Vicente M Diaz, Mark Falcous, Jon Fraenkel, Andrew D. Grainger, Nic MacLellan, Gordon Leua Nanau, Joshua I. Newman, Howard Van Trease, Irene Visser and Muridan S. Widjojo. To view a complete table of contents, click on the image at right. Hard copy issues of the journal are available in the Pacific Collection, and UH-Manoa students, faculty and staff can also access electronic copies of the current issue (and all issues dating back to 2000) via Project Muse . All issues prior to the current two (i.e., from 1989 through 2011) are freely available on the internet via the UH-M Scholarspace digital repository .

The Center for Pacific Islands Studies newsletter, Pacific News from Manoa , is now available in blog format at   http://blog.hawaii.edu/cpis/ . Back issues of Pacific News can also be found on the Center's website at  http://www.hawaii.edu/cpis/publications_7.html . (The newsletter also continues to be distributed electronically as a pdf file; for more information on receiving the newsletter via email, visit the blog.)

Social Process in Hawaii , the journal of the UH-Manoa Department of Sociology, has been published since 1935. Back issues of the journal were recently made freely available online via Scholarspace, the Library's digital repository of material produced by the UH-Manoa community. To access the journals, click here.

The Doris Duke Theater at the Honolulu Museum of Art will be hosting a tattoo film festival from June 23 to July 6. In addition to a wide array of documentaries and feature films, the festival also includes two lectures on Polynesian tattooing by Tricia Allen. For more information, click here.   As an aside, for those with an interest in historic tattooing images, the Hawaiian & Pacific Collections are in the process of completing an online image collection that draws from our rare book holdings -- included are several images of tattoos from throughout Oceania. The image at right is one example; to view others, click here.

The Chronicling America newspaper database is back online, after a service interruption earlier this week. For more on the Chronicling America project and other online sources of 19th- and early-20th century Hawaii- and Pacific-related newspaper content, click here.

A recent posting on the Biodiversity Heritage Library blog discusses natural history in Hawaii, including William Bryan's   Natural history of Hawaii, being an account of the Hawaiian people, the geology and geography of the islands, and the native and introduced plants and animals of the group . To view the story, click on the image at right. Full text of Bryan's Natural History of Hawaii... is available via the Hathi Trust; to view it, click here .

The Library of Congress' Chronicling America historic newspaper archive is currently offline. The LoC is aware of the issue and expects to have the site back online in the next few days. For more information on the Hawaiian Collection's participation with Chronicling America (and more generally about online access to Hawai'i- and Pacific-related historic newspapers), see our blog entry of Oct. 26, 2011.

Another round of Hawai'i- or Pacific-related electronic books have been added to the Hamilton libraries, to further enhance accessibility to high-use titles. The recent batch includes: Title : Endangered Languages of Austronesia Author : Florey, Margaret eISBN : 0191571210 Access URL : http://www.UHM.eblib.com/ patron/FullRecord.aspx?p= 472258 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title : Tourism and National Identity Author : Frew, Elspeth; White, Leanne eISBN : 1135146845 Access URL : http://www.UHM.eblib.com/ patron/FullRecord.aspx?p= 669201 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title : Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology Author : Craig, Robert D. eISBN : 0313069468 Access URL : http://www.UHM.eblib.com/ patron/FullRecord.aspx?p= 494982 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Title : Language, Space, and Social Relationships : A Foundational Cultural Model in Polynesia Author : Bennardo, Giovanni eISBN : 0511539932 Access URL : http://www.UHM.eblib.com/ patron/FullRecord.aspx?p= 442859 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...

UH-Manoa's Hamilton Library has recently added several electronic books to its holdings, including some high-demand titles of interest to Hawai'i and Pacific researchers . More are currently in the process of being purchased, but in the meantime the below titles are now available. (As new titles are added, links will be included with their records in the library's online Voyager catalog): Aloha betrayed : native Hawaiian resistance to American colonialism / Noenoe K. Silva American Pacificism : Oceania in the U.S. imagination / Paul Lyons American Surfer : Radical Culture and Capitalism   / Kristin Lawler. Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture  /    Lee D. Baker Asian settler colonialism : from local governance to the habits of everyday life in Hawaiʻi / Candace Fujikane and Jonathan Y. Okamura, editors. Date which will live : Pearl Harbor in American memory   / Emily S. Rosenberg The gifts of civilization : germs and genocide in Hawaiʻi ...