Hawaiian & Pacific Collections

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have launched the Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Health Interview Survey, which is the first-ever large-scale national health survey to collect detailed health information for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) households. The information will be collected through the   National Health Interview Survey , and is meant to assess health needs and to improve understanding of the health concerns faced by this community. A press release is posted at   http://www.cdc.gov/media/ releases/2013/p1217-pacific- islanders.html .

The Below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the UH-M Center for Philippine Studies: Dear UH Manoa community, As we have seen in the news, the central Philippines has been hit by what may be the worst storm in recorded history, Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda, with deaths in the thousands and survivors desperate for food, water, shelter and medical attention. We are appealing to the UH community to help in whatever way you can and donate to the relief efforts. The Center for Philippine Studies has identified the following international and national agencies who are already working on the ground assisting victims in the affected areas. It is best to donate DIRECTLY to these organizations through their websites. Please donate to any of the following: Philippine Red Cross at   http://www.redcross.org.ph/ . OxFam Philippines through OxFam America/International at   http://www.oxfam.org/en/ development/philippines/ . World Food Programme at   http://www.wfp.org/ . Unicef ...

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 below is quoted directly from an email circulated by UH's Center for Biographical Research. In addition to his other biographical data listed below, D. Keali'i MacKenzie also currently serves as a part-time reference librarian in the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections. "Queer Pacific Indigeneity: Constructing Our Archives" D. Keali‘i MacKenzie and Tagi Qolouvaki Thursday, September 26 • Noon to 1:15 pm Center for Biographical Research • 1800 East-West Road, Henke Hall 325 In this talanoa/talk story panel, David Kealiʻi MacKenzie and Tagi Qolouvaki, both queer-identifying, Pacific Islanders (Native Hawaiian and Fijian-Tongan) discuss how their respective genealogies, including as activists, scholars, and writers, have informed their journeys to find and construct archives of queer pacific indigeneity. Along the way we hope to share a few poems, photographs, memories of community, and some of the many questions that guide and accompany us. D. Kealiʻi MacK...

A new, monthly event related to Pacific literature is set to begin this week at UH-Manoa. As the flyer notes, it's "not a meeting, not an event, not a reading, not an association, not a clique, not an obligation, not a class, not a workshop, not a club... just a monthly afternoon tea & chat for those on the island who love Pacific Lit." For details, click on the image at right.

The latest issue of The Contemporary Pacific (Vol. 25, number 2, Fall 2013) has been released, and is available to UH students, faculty and affiliates via Project Muse . The latest issue features art from the 11th Festival of Pacific Arts, which was held in the Solomon Islands in 2012, with cover art (pictured here) by Alisa Vavataga. (As with all recent issues, the featured art is reproduced in full color in the online version of TCP ). Articles include writing by Erik K. Silverman ("After Cannibal Tours : Cargoism and Marginality in a Post-touristic Sepik River Society"), Lorenz Gonschor ("Mai te hau Roma ra te huru: The Illusion of "Autonomy" and the Ongoing Struggle for Decolonization in French Polynesia"), an interview with Oscar Temaru, and much more. 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...

The staff of the Hawaiian & Pacific Collections is happy to announce that we will be re-opening this Monday, August 26. As of that day we will resume normal fall semester hours (Monday - Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, 1-5 p.m.). As we continue to re-assemble our collections following the summer-long construction project, there may on occasion be delays in our normal retrieval times for requested materials and so we thank you in advance for your patience as we make a return to normal services.

O n  Monday July 15 at 12pm  in Burns Hall room 3012, East-West Center,  Fr. Fran Hezel will be giving a brown bag seminar called "Cultural Dilemmas in Development," which stems from nearly fifty years of experience living and working in the Federated States of Micronesia. Fr. Hezel's talk will also draw on his recently published  Making sense of Micronesia : the logic of Pacific island culture   (University of Hawai'i Press, 2013). The Seminar is co-sponsored by The Pacific Islands Development Program and the Center for Pacific Islands Studies. For more information, click on the flyer at right.

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 .

As previously announced, the re-opening date for the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections is now tentatively scheduled for August 26, 2013 (for more on this revised date, click here) . Owing to this change in our planned re-opening date, all materials that were checked out from the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections between April 28 and May 13 have automatically been given an updated due date. These materials are now due back to the library on or before Tuesday, September 3, 2013.

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.

Hawaiian & Pacific Collections Construction update: The Hawaiian & Pacific Collections at UH-Manoa Hamilton Library are currently closed to the public for renovation work. While the completion date for construction was initially estimated to be mid-July, we have been informed by the contractor that this date will have to be extended.  We are therefore currently estimating that the Hawaiian & Pacific Collections will be re-opening to the public on the first day of the fall semester, August 26, 2013, though we cannot yet guarantee this date.  The timetable is completely determined by the pace of ongoing construction on our floor. In the meantime, Hawaiian & Pacific Collections librarians will continue to provide in-person reference service in Hamilton Library's Government Documents Collection reading room, from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. This service will continue through Thursday, August 15, which is the last day of Summer Session II. ...

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by Lani Wendt Young, niece of Samoan poet, novelist, essayist and artist Albert Wendt: Talofa,   My Uncle Albert Wendt has just announced a thank-you gift for readers worldwide to celebrate his recent award. He has made his award-winning book 'Sons for the Return Home' available for FREE download from Amazon, for this week only. This is an excellent opportunity to discover or re-discover what is great about Pacific Literature.  You do not need an e-reader or Kindle to utilize this offer. Teachers may find this gift particularly useful. Most students/young people today are reading texts on their phones and can make use of this gift very quickly and easily. All they need is internet access. We hope you will take this opportunity to acquire a classic for your libraries and school resources.    How to download copies of SONS FOR THE RETURN HOME: 1. Download the free Kindle ...

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 Hawaiian and Pacific Collections' temporary reference desk has now opened in Hamilton Library's Government Documents reading room. Collection librarians will be providing reference from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, closed Saturday and Sunday. We will continue to provide reference service at this desk until construction is completed. During open hours, we will be answering our reference telephone line at (808)  956-8264. Otherwise, the best way to reach the collections as a whole is via email:  hawnpac@hawaii.edu . Please note that while we have transferred our reference collection downstairs, we do not have access to the vast majority of our Hawaiian and Pacific materials housed on the fifth floor, and therefore our ability to answer questions will in some cases be limited. 

The Hawaiian & Pacific Collections are now CLOSED for air conditioning renovation work, which is expected to last through mid-July (an exact reopening date cannot yet be determined due to the complex nature of the construction project). The entire 5th floor is closed and inaccessible to library users and staff. Limited in-person reference service will be provided in the Government Documents department, on the ground floor of Hamilton Library, beginning May 28. For reference assistance between May 13 and 24, please go to first floor (BHSD) reference desk For more information about the renovation, including research options during our period of closure, please see  http://guides.library.manoa. hawaii.edu/hpsummer

The below is quoted directly from a press release circulated by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. HONOLULU (April 25, 2013) --  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs today unveiled a new searchable online geographic information system, which makes data that once would have taken hours - if not days - to compile now available within seconds. Three years in the making, OHA's new Kīpuka Database provides easy access to a wide array of information, including more than 5,000 Native Hawaiian land awards, nearly 10,000 historic sites, and various ahupua'a boundaries. The database is expected to help complement OHA's other key research tools, such as the Native Hawaiian Data Book and the Papakilo Database, a digital library for Native Hawaiian historical and cultural information. "The Kīpuka database is the latest example of efforts by OHA to make the best possible Native Hawaiian historical and cultural land information widely available," said OHA Chief Executive Offi...

As a result of the construction project that is underway in Hamilton Library, the three elevators on the first floor that directly lead to the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections are currently inaccessible. However,  please note that the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections are open for normal business hours  (as are floors 2 through 4 below us). To reach our collections, please go to the second floor of "Phase I" of the library -- i.e., the part of the building that houses the main entrance to the library, the circulation counter, business office and etc. -- and then proceed to "Phase II" of the library (the portion that holds the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections). From there, take an elevator up to the fifth floor. The 2nd floor of Phase I can be reached either via the stairwell that is located adjacent to the first floor circulation counter, or via two remaining elevators in the Phase I side of the building (which service floors 1 through 3 only). Detour...

On Thursday, April 18 at 3:45 p.m. Pacific Collection librarian Eleanor Kleiber will join Danielle Niquet, a librarian at the University of French Polynesia, to discuss their experiences as librarians in Hawai'i and Tahiti, respectively. The discussion is open to the public, as is being co-sponsored by the UH-Manoa Library and Information Sciences Program; the American Library Association's UH Student Chapter; the Center for Pacific Islands Studies; and the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections. The event is free and open to the public; for more information click on the flyer at right.

A series of free events on the UH Manoa campus next week (4/18-20) will gather poets, filmmakers, musicians and playwrights. For more information click on the flyer at right, or visit the Pacific Literature at UHM Facebook page.

UH Manoa's Native Hawaiian Student Services organization is conducting a book drive to create a library for Hawaiian prisoners . The event takes place Monday, April 8 from 3-5 p.m. at the Kamakauokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies. For more information, click on the flyer at right.

An extensive construction project to update Hamilton Library’s air conditioning will begin on April 1. This multi-month project will impact different floors and sections of the Library at different times. Construction affecting the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections is scheduled to begin in mid-May. As a consequence,  the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections will be closed to the public as of May 11, 2013 . Construction in the Hawaiian and Pacific collections area of the library is expected to take up to eight weeks, but the timetable for reopening cannot be exactly determined owing to the complexity of the project.  During the closure period, materials in the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections will be completely inaccessible to all library users and all library staff. Materials that are checked out from the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections from April 28 onward will be given an extended due date. Although the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections reading room will be close...

The below is quoted from an email circulated by the UH-Manoa Center for Biographical Research :  "Hawaiian Music and Musicians, Revised and Updated." by John Berger, Author and Editor Thursday, March 14 noon - 1:15 p.m. Kuykendall 410 For more information, please contact   biograph@hawaii.edu , 956-3774, or   www.facebook.com/CBRHawaii John Berger has covered entertainment in Honolulu for 40 years. He has been writing about music, theatre and social events of all kinds for the Honolulu Star-Advertiser (formerly the Honolulu Star-Bulletin) since 1988. George S. Kanahele published his monumental  Hawaiian Music and Musicians: An Illustrated History  in 1979. Compiled with the assistance of a hundred contributors and the research of many more, it was immediately recognized as the most ambitious book ever written about Hawaiian music. The book is arranged alphabetically, with entries on Hawaiian music from its roots in ancient chants to the floweri...

The below is quoted from an email circulated by the Center for Biographical Research: “Who Am I to Extol Tupaia?” Tahitian Voices in a Māori Project about the Pacific Alice Te Punga Somerville, Department of English, UH Mānoa Thursday, March 7 • 12 noon – 1:15 pm John A. Burns Hall Room 3121/3125 (Third Floor) • East-West Center • 1601 East-West Road When Cook and his crew visited Aotearoa in 1769, Tupaia from Raʻiatea not only acted as translator between Europeans and Māori but also recorded first exchanges in a painting. Reflecting on the role of Maʻohi people during these encounters, Māori poet Robert Sullivan asks “who am I to extol Tupaia . . . who am I to say these things?” How, indeed, do we write about connections between Pacific people? In the Pacific, how can we tell stories of ourselves without telling stories of each other, and yet how do we avoid—as Sullivan puts it—“tak[ing] the middle of your throat[s]”? Dr Te Punga Somerville will consider the contributions of T...

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by UH-M Library Events & Communications Coordinator Teri L. Skillman: Contact:  Teri L Skillman, (808) 956-8688  Events & Communications Coordinator, University of Hawaii at Manoa The second lecture in the Spring 2013 Faculty Lecture Series,  Hawai'i on Film: Storytelling on Screen Beyond Stereotypes , by Lisette Marie Flanary from the Academy of Creative Media, will be held on on Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 3:30 p.m. in Hamilton 301. Admission is free and refreshments will be provided.   There have been many films shot in and about Hawaiʻi, but few have been stories that are told from the point of view of the “inside out” rather than the outside looking in. The diversity and individuality of Indigenous films made in Hawaiʻi challenge stereotypical understandings of Native Hawaiians and are important tools for cultural expression. Through her documentary films about hula and Hawaiian cultu...

The below message is quoted from an email circulated by the UH-M Center for Pacific Islands Studies: Aloha kākou, Please join us at 12pm on Thursday (2/14) for the first Pacific Connections Seminar of the semester. Bruno Saura, University of French Polynesia, will present “Pulotu, Hawaiki, Kahiki: Remembrance of Ancestral Lands in Pre-European Polynesia” from Tahiti via videoconference. Pulotu, Hawaiki, Kahiki: Remembrance of Ancestral Lands in Pre-European Polynesia Hawaiian people have kept the memory of the land of origin of their ancestors: Kahiki. They have also adopted for one of their islands the designation Hawaiʻi, which throughout Eastern Polynesia and Aotearoa refers to a land of origin as well as to the final destination of the deceased spirits: Hawaiki. Dr Saura will analyze Hawaiians’ inclusion of Raiatea in the concept of “Kahiki,” while the Tahitians call that island Havaiʻi. After considering another concept, Pulotu, which in Western Polynesia corresponds to what is ...

The Hawaiian Journal of History will launch Volume 46 on February 7 with a special presentation on the life of the 19th-century Hawaiian scholar, politician and athlete John Henry Wise. The event begins at 7 p.m. at the Kamakauokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies. For more information, click on the flyers above.