Hawaiian & Pacific Collections

On the evening of Tuesday, Sept. 26, a signing ceremony for the newly established "Hawaiian and Pacific Collections Endowment in Honor of Its Faculty and Staff" was held in the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections reading room. The endowment was funded by Professor Emeritus Albert J. Schütz (pictured at right), whose relationship with the Library dates back to the time of Janet Bell (the Hawaiian Collection's first curator), Renée Heyum (the Pacific Collection's first curator) and Mary Muraoka (an early staff member), and continues until today. Prof. Schütz is the widely renowned linguist who has authored foundational scholarly texts on the Fijian and Hawaiian languages, as well as popular and well-known trade publications such as  Say it in Fijian: An Entertaining Introduction to the Standard Language of Fiji  and  All About Hawaiian . The librarians and staff of the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections extend their gratitude first and foremost to Prof. Schütz for his gene...

Volume 28, no. 2 of  The Contemporary Pacific   is now available in open-access format at:   https://scholarspace.manoa. hawaii.edu/handle/10125/2828   The Contemporary Pacific,   which is co-published by the UH-Manoa Center for Pacific Islands Studies and the University of Hawai'i Press,   is the world's foremost journal of interdisciplinary scholarship relating to Oceania. Back issues, from Volume 1. number 1 (1989) through one year prior to the present are freely available via Scholarspace, the UH-M Library's digital repository. Current issues are available to UH-M students, faculty and staff via   Project Muse  (which houses issues from the year 2000 through the present).

The UH-Manoa Library Administration recently released the below announcement, regarding changes in hours to the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections.   ******* The UH  Library  is instituting three changes to the  hours  for the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections (HP) at Hamilton  Library . From  August 14-17, 2017 , during the "interim week" between the end ofsummer session and the beginning of the fall semester, HP will be open half days from  10 a.m. to 2 p.m. During the fall semester,  August 21 to December 15, 2017 , Sunday  hours will be limited to the first Sunday of the month from  1 to 5 p.m.  Thedates of these Sundays are  September 3 ,  October 1 , November 5 and December3. From  December 18, 2017 , to  January 5, 2018 , during winter break, HP willbe open half days from  10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Otherwise, HP  hours  remain the same this fall: Mondays to Fridays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m...

Maria Ahsing Ka Wahine 'o Kaiona woodcut print The Hawaiian and Pacific Collections are currently hosting "From Beneath the Surface: Recent Prints Concerning Hawai'i." The seventeen prints in this exhibition were created during the 2016-2017 academic year by students working in the printmaking studio in the Department of Art and Art History at UH-Manoa. The artwork is the result of students' participation in projects that addressed a collective concern for current issues surrounding cultural, political and environmental conditions in Hawai'i.  "From Beneath the Surface" will be on exhibit in the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections reading room throughout the summer, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Special thanks to Professor Charles Cohan for coordinating the production and installation of this exhibit.

The Hawaiian Collection is pleased to announce that the full run of the  Honolulu Weekly  is now available online at: https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10524/55438 The  Honolulu Weekly  was published between 1991-2013. For many in Honolulu during these years, especially prior to the advent of the Internet, the  Weekly  was a welcome alternative to the Honolulu dailies, offering a fresh take on Honolulu's music and culture scene, and focusing on astutely selected issues of the day. The paper’s weekly publication cycle and long-format cover stories often allowed writers to explore topics at a depth the daily newspapers were unable to, while also encouraging writers to go beyond simple reporting and into a more nuanced analysis. While the paper’s embrace of “advocacy journalism” often lead to accusations of bias, it’s editorial staff made no pretense at hiding that bias, and also made a point o...

In late January 2017 digital and print copies of several genealogies from the  Jack Tobin Papers  were given to the Council of Iroij (Council of High Chiefs) of the Marshall Islands. The previously-made agreement relating to access was reconfirmed, this time by the entire Council. As part of the agreement the Pacific Collection created print copies for the Library at the College of the Marshall Islands, for the Historic Preservation Office, for the Alele (National Library, Archives and Museum), and for the Council. This is the conclusion of several years of work between the UHM Pacific Collection and Wilbert Alik, the head of the Department of Marshallese Studies at the College of the Marshall Islands. The originals of these genealogies were donated to the University of Hawai'i-Manoa Library by Dr. Tobin in increments over several years, and will be permanently archived by the Pacific Collection. Dr. Tobin first went to the Marshall Islands in 1950 as a student of Dr. ...

The Pacific Collection recently acquired a set of twenty-four cabinet card images of Tahiti , taken circa 1895 by an unidentified member of an American tourist group. The photographs include a range of subjects, some with captions, including landscapes, interiors and exteriors of buildings, and Tahitians. One image in particular stands out -- a man, woman and child in front of their home. On the back of the image is a hand-written caption: "Lawyer Goupil's residence, finest on the island." On the one hand, both the image and caption are somewhat unimpressive, but they hint at a more historic value: Auguste Goupil was a well-known lawyer in Tahiti. The image presumably shows Goupil, his wife and their daughter, Jeanne. Roughly a year after this photo was taken, Goupil hired Paul Gauguin to paint Jeanne, which resulted in one of Gauguin's more famous works, "Portrait of a Young Woman, Vaite (Jeanne) Goupil." A detail of the photograph and Gauguin's pai...