Hawaiian & Pacific Collections

The Below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the UH-M Center for Pacific Islands Studies: The Renee Heyum award is a partial tuition scholarship for Pacific Islanders awarded every spring for the following academic year through the STAR scholarship database application system:   https://www.star.hawaii.edu: 10012/Scholarship_live/login. jsp    While most of the scholarships on STAR have a deadline of Feb. 14 th , the Heyum award’s deadline is  midnight, March 7 th . If you login to the database above and search for HEYUM you’ll find the description of the award. If you click “apply” in the top right hand corner you will see what I have attached here as a PDF. The application requires a couple of PDF documents to be uploaded to the application site, including a 3 page statement (details on the attachment), and scanned unofficial transcripts (STAR transcripts are ok). You will also need the names and email addresses of three people who can write refe...

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by Teri Skillman, the UH-M Library Events Planner: UH Mānoa's Hamilton Library will host “He Lei, He Aloha: This is a Lei of Love, The Legacies of Queen Lili'uokalani,” a free program celebrating the enduring legacies of Queen Lili'uokalani.  Learn about the legacies of Queen Lili'uokalani on   Sunday, January 26 , at   3:30 p.m.   in the Hamilton Library Alcove.The program is presented by the Hawai'i State Public Library System (HSPLS) and is currently touring at 28 public libraries statewide through   February 13, 2014 . Queen Lydia Lili'uokalani, the last reigning monarch of Hawaiʻi, was renowned for her music, love for her homeland, and complete dedication to the needs of her people. The Queen expressed her aloha for her people through her actions and the examples she set. This program features selected readings from Hawai'i’s Story by Hawaiʻi’s Queen written by Queen Lili'uokalani, a s...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is hosting "Copyright Week" for six days through January 18. Each day of the week is devoted to a different issue of copyright as it pertains to the online environment, with topics including "Transparency," "Building and Defending a Robust Public Domain," "Open Access," "You Bought it, You Own It," "Fair Use Rights" and "Getting Copyright Right." For more, go to https://www.eff.org/copyrightweek . In support of Copyright Week, the Association of Research Libraries is also weighing in on each of the daily topics on its "Policy Notes" blog: http://policynotes.arl.org/

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...