Hawaiian & Pacific Collections

Over the years, the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections have produced numerous indexes and bibliographies to aid in researching specific topics. We have also received other such works from a variety of researchers and organizations. For several months now, Hawaiian Collection librarian Dore Minatodani has been transferring certain of these indexes into fully searchable, online research tools. Among others, these include: The first two volumes (Sept. 1922 to May 1924) of Ka Leo o Hawaii , the University's student newspaper; Amy K. Stillman's Hawaiian Chants: An Index of Published Sources and Audio Recordings and Hawaiian Songs: An Index of Published Songbooks and Helen Chapin's Guide to Newspapers of Hawai'i, 1834-2000 . For a more complete listing of useful Hawai'i-related databases and indexes (which is not limited to tools produced by our library), see the Hawaiian Collection website .

The University of Wollongong and the Australian Museum have collaborated to produce an online collection of 400 Pacific artifacts that allows users to browse and group images based on a variety of keywords. To view the site, click here .

The latest edition of Pacific News from Manoa , the quarterly newsletter of the UH-M Center for Pacific Islands Studies, was recently released. To read it online and for information about subscribing, click here . For further information about the Center, visit the CPIS homepage or e-mail cpis@hawaii.edu

Tuvalu, which has been described as the first independent nation to face extinction via global warming, made news last week by leading the charge in Copenhagen for stricter environmental protection standards than those laid out by the Kyoto Protocol ... which is a prime lead-in to noting that both the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections have a wide variety of materials dealing with the effects of climate change on islands and their inhabitants. To search for them in our Voyager online catalog , select "Basic Search," and using the "Subject Browse" option, search for sea level-- or climatic changes-- or human beings--effect of climate on-- with a specific country or region name following the dashes (for instance, sea level--Micronesia or climatic changes--Hawaii). For information that crosses multiple Pacific regions, use "Oceania" or "Pacific Islands" as the region name. The Hawaii-Pacific Journal Index also contains listings for many article...

The below is quoted directly from an e-mail sent by Byron W. Bender, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, University of Hawaii, regarding the newly online Marshallese-English Dictionary. See also the bottom of Dr. Bender's message for a link to a site hosting online Nauran and Kiribati dictionaries: Iọkwe koṃ otemjej,             We’re on line. Please feel free to spread the word. There are still typos and other infelicities, especially in the new material that has been added, and there’s more editing to be done, but there’s no need to make everyone wait. Some whistles and bells have been added, as many things are possible on line that are not possible in hard copy. I hope you can find time to read the introduction carefully and explore using the new features.             For those of you who knew about the earlier unofficial on-line version, it will now be necessary to mak...

The UH Library's online catalog, Voyager, will be unavailable on Tuesday, Dec. 22 , beginning at 6 a.m. Hawaii time and lasting throughout the day. Connections to electronic database subscriptions owned by the UH Manoa library should not be affected. The shutdown is necessary to move the library's server from a temporary space to its permanent home, marking another step in the Library's recovery from the disastrous flood of October 2004. (For more information on the flood and its aftermath, click here .)

The Pacific Collection recently completed Creating Siapo: American Samoa 1967 , an online collection of images documenting the process of making siapo (a.k.a. tapa or kapa ). Meanwhile, a previously completed digital collection has now been migrated to a new display format: Rapanui: The Edmunds/Bryan Photograph Collection: 1904-1929 , now uses Streetprint software, which (among other things) allows for user comments. This commenting function has added a great deal of depth to several other Pacific digital collections, as viewers from around the world have written in to provide genealogical information, ethnographic details, personal anecdotes and more. The Pacific Collection's single largest online photo assemblage, the Trust Territory Photo Archives , is also in the process of migrating to Streetprint, at which point all of the Pacific online photo collections will run on this software. To date, the Pacific Collection has mounted more than 10,000 images online via six digital ...

The University Librarian announced on Dec. 7 that "the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs has allocated funds so that Hamilton Library will be open during the third week of Winter Interim, January 4-8, 2010, albeit with limited service." This funding does not extend to the Hawaiian & Pacific Collections, which will remain closed during the entire period of the Winter Interim, from December 19, 2009 through January 10, 2010. Hawaiian & Pacific Collection librarians will be answering e-mail reference questions during this period as staffing permits, but all other services will be unavailable. E-mail reference questions may be sent to hawnpac@hawaii.edu . We apologize for any and all inconvenience.

Below is quoted verbatim from a press release distributed by Othila Media Productions : HAWAII A VOICE FOR SOVEREIGNTY - HONOLULU PUBLIC PREMIERE SCREENING Honoring Cast and Native Hawaiian People Sunday, December 13 at 5:00 PM University of Hawaii , Spalding Auditorium Honolulu , HI University of Hawaii Cinema Series, by Don Brown; Sponsored in part by Hawaiian Studies, UH and Pasifika Foundation Hawaii US 2009 84 minutes RECEPTION at 7:00 PM Second screening at 7:30 PM  This documentary film, directed by photojournalist Catherine Bauknight, explores the culture of the Native Hawaiians and their connection to the land. At the forefront of the film are social, economic, and ecological issues that have developed in Hawaii since the takeover by the U.S. in 1893, revealed in the voice and participation of the grassroots indigenous people and scholars such as author, Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask and Professor Kaleikoa Ka'eo, Senator Kalani English, Bumpy Kanahele, and Cliffor...

The Journal de la Société des Océanistes recently joined a handful of Hawaii- and Pacific-related academic journals in posting full-text versions online, and currently allows free access to issues from 1945-2000 . Other major journals that are posting backfiles online include the Journal of the Polynesian Society (which has mounted vol. 1 (1892) through vol. 100 (1991) online) and Contemporary Pacific , which has mounted vol. 1, no. 1 (1989) through vol. 20, no. 1 (2008) on the University of Hawaii's open access Scholarspace site . (The most recent issues of Contemporary Pacific are available in full-text through the paid database Project Muse, which the University subscribes to — UH-M students, faculty and staff with a valid ID can access the database by clicking here ).  All three journals are also indexed within the Hawaii Pacific Journal Index (HPJI), an open-access database created and maintained by the UH-M library. HPJI indexes nearly 140 Hawaii- and Pacific-related ...

Departmental telephone and e-mail service will be generally unavailable. Reference service will be generally unavailable. Reference inquiries sent via e-mail to hawnpac@hawaii.edu will be answered as librarian staffing allows. Books from the Hawaiian or Pacific Collection that are borrowed or renewed after December 12 will be due January 11. Books may be returned to the book return bins at Hamilton or Sinclair Libraries. Books returned to the library during the winter break will not be checked in immediately, but the check-in date will later reflect the actual date of return. We apologize for all inconvenience and difficulty this will cause. The closures were scheduled in response to budget reductions. Contact information for Hawaiian and Pacific Collections: Hawaiian and Pacific Collections hawnpac@hawaii.edu (808) 956-8264 Hawaiian Collection Librarians: Joan Hori, Acting Department Head and Hawaiian Collection curator jhori@hawaii.edu (808) 956-9296 Dor...