Hawaiian & Pacific Collections

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.

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

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.

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 urb...

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.

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 ...

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 perc...

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.

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 i s 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/...

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 .