Hawaiian & Pacific Collections

The below is quoted directly from a release circulated by the Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law:     Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law Presents Maoli Thursday: The Guam Military Buildup: Examining Potential Impacts on Culture, Environment, the Economy and the Larger Community Hawai'i Standard Time Thursday, April 1, 2010 12:45 - 1:55 p.m Chamorro Standard Time Friday, April 2, 2010 8:45-9:55 a.m Join us at the University of Hawai'i Law School Moot Court Room or WATCH IT LIVE, ONLINE: www.KaHuliAo.com Maoli Thursday is a lunchtime forum and speaker series held every first Thursday of the month. Please RSVP by Tuesday, March 30, 2010 Via email: nhlawctr@hawaii.edu Ka Huli Ao invites you to our last Maoli Thursday of the semester. This month's lunchtime conversation is organized and moderated by law students Chris Odoca and Ana Won Pat-Borja and Zoology Ph.D. Student Austin J. Shelton, III. Benjamin "B.J." Cruz is t...

The Center for Pacific Islands Studies has announced a position for a graduate assistant to provide editorial and administrative support to the center's publications manager and the editor of the center's journal, starting 16 August 2010, pending availability of funds. For more information, click here . Inquiries should be sent to Jan Rensel, 808-956-7700 or rensel@hawaii.edu.

As of Monday, March 29, 2010, the standard Hawaiian & Pacific Collections loan period has expanded to two weeks for all items that can be checked out of the library, with one additional online renewal (for a total one-month loan period). For more on H&P circulation policies, click here .

In case you missed the recent UH-M campus screening of Insular Empire: America in the Mariana Islands , it will be showing on PBS this week: Date: 25 March 2010 Time: 8:30 pm (repeat at 11 pm, on cable only) Channel: PBS Hawaii

Thrums Hawaiian Annual (a.k.a. The Hawaiian Almanac and Annual ) is a major research tool for all kinds of information dealing with Hawaii. Beginning in 1875 and running (in various forms and names) through the 1970s, the annual (particularly in its early decades) is an extremely valuable source of information on everything from economic statistics and Hawaiian government rosters to obituaries, events of the day, historical essays and much more. In recent years, many of the early editions of Thrums have found their way online via Google Books. Recognizing that Google does not always correctly display serial publications--for instance, citation dates don't always match the text being displayed--Martha Chantiny, UH-M Library's Head of Desktop Network Services, has over time been mounting more reliable versions of Thrum's on the Library's eVols open-access site . To date, most of the editions between 1875 and 1895 are available on the eVols site, while Google has posted...

The annual UHM School of Pacific and Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference is underway, and will run through Friday, March 12. all events take place at the UHM Center for Korean Studies. For a complete schedule of events, click on the image at right.

The Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies is hosting a two-day symposium titled The Place of Hawaii In American Studies II , on Thursday and Friday, March 11 and 12. Speakers include Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwo'ole Osorio, Ty Kawika Tengan, 'Ilima Seto-Long, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Jon Goldberg-Hiller, Caroline Sinavaiana, Blake Oshiro, Alani Apio, Jeff Mikulina, D. Kapua Sproat, Noelani Goodyear-Ka'opua, April Hokulani Drexel, Patricia Halagao and Kuhio Vogeler . For presenter bios and a complete listing of events, click on the image at right.