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Hi – my name is Jill Seapker and I am a new student worker in the Hawaiʻi Congressional Papers Collection at UH Mānoa. I am in my first year in the MLIS program, and after twenty years of […]

Greetings, my name is Donovan Balderama. I am incredibly grateful to announce to you that I am the new student worker here at the Hawaiʻi Congressional Papers Collection at UH Mānoa, recently hired […]

The Hawaiʻi Congressional Papers Collection is excited to announce the opening of the K. Mark Takai Papers. This collection, generously donated by Takaiʻs wife Sami, documents the late […]

On Friday, April 29, 2022, the Hawaiʻi Congressional Papers Collection, in partnership with the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, hosted a talk by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn […]

In this issue: Note from the Chair Update from the University Archives Update from the Hawai‘i Congressional Papers Collection Update from the Jean Charlot Collection Note from the Chair This time […]

On December 8, the USS Daniel Inouye (DDG 118) was commissioned at Pearl Harbor. The destroyer, whose motto is “Go For Broke,” honors Senator Inouye’s life and public service. Left: Daniel […]

Last week, we packed up 53 boxes of film and video and transported them from UH Mānoa Library’s Hawaiʻi Congressional Papers Collection to ‘Uluʻulu: The Henry Kuʻualoa Giugni Moving Image […]

An even flyer by the Okinawan Prefectural Archives suggest that Thomas Tarō Higa (比嘉太郎; hereafter spelled as Taro Higa, a convention in English spelling) made a video titled "Hawai ni […]

The 2021 Mōkaulele Leadership Series presents the following online event. Title: Uchinaaguchi, A Language of Duuchuu: Learning to Appreciate What is Yours Time & Date: Thursday, April […]

The List of Newly Available Resources in English for Research on Okinawa - Spring 2021 Notes: Those who are not affiliated with the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa do not have access to the […]

仲本和彦、『在米沖縄関係文書の資料地図』 An archivist named NAKAMOTO Kazuhiko (仲本和彦) at the Okinawa Prefectural Archives in Okinawa, Japan, has complied a list of […]

Ukwanshin Kabudan in Hawai’i announced that it is going to have an online (Zoom) shimakutuba learning event. Title: Online Shimakutuba Gakumun Kai Date & Time: Monday, April 12, 2021 (HST), […]

Note: Part 1 focused on Laurence Hasbrouck Snyder (1901-1986), sixth president of the University of Hawai‘i (from 1958 to 1963) and also an internationally known geneticist.  Designed by […]

The Center for Korean Studies (CKS) at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa presents a Webinar on Wednesday, April 7, 2021 at 1:00pm-2:30pm (HST). About the Webinar During World War II, the […]

The Hawaiʻi Congressional Papers Collection celebrates the publication this month of former Congresswoman Pat Saiki’s memoir A Woman in the House. Saiki, who was born and raised in Hilo, was first […]

Virtual Colloquium: Dialogue on Japan’s Marginalized: Ainu and Okinawans    The Asian Program at the Florida International University is going to have a free, virtual colloquium […]

Online Study Meeting on Okinawa Shrine: Its Birth and History by the Research Center for Nonwritten Cultural Materials in the Institute for the Study of Japanese Folk Culture at Kanagawa University  […]

Note: Part 2 continues with more of the history of Snyder Hall   The impending demolition of Snyder Hall provides an opportunity to offer an account of the sixth UH President, Laurence Hasbrouck […]

More Titles Available, including the Philippines, Brazil, and Singapore at the Hōji Shinbun Digital Collection The Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection has added some new newspaper titles. Those below […]

The University of the Ryukyus Library Joins Minna de Honkoku Project On January 6, 2021 (JST), the University of the Ryukyus Library has announced that it would join a project named Minna de […]

“If, in fact, all memory is constructed, then how do keepers of a tradition sleep soundly at night? Meet artists Kenny Endo, Norman Kaneshiro, and Yukie Shiroma as they share their explorations of […]

Ukwanshin Kabudan has announced its LooChoo Identity Summit 2021. It will be held online on March 20, 2021 (HST) via Zoom. This year will mark the 7th year. “NANKURU NAISA If you ask most people in […]

The Hawai’i United Okinawa Association (HUOA) announced that it would have its annual Hawai’i Okinawan Festival virtually this year. https://www.okinawanfestival.com/ Date: September 4, 5, & […]

The Pacific commercial advertiser., December 25, 1909, SECOND SECTION, Page 15 Pacific commercial advertiser, Dec. 25, 1909, Page 1 The Hawaiian gazette., December 23, 1913, Page 5, Image 5

The Ukwanshin Kabudan has announced its annual LooChoo Identity Summit details. Dates: March 6-8, 2020 Locations: March 6 & 7: Windward Community College, Kaneohe, HI March 8: Pagoda Restaurant […]

A film titled Okinawan Blue (Kokoro Odoru) will be premiered at the 2019 Hawai’i International Film Festival (HIFF)! According to the HIFF site, the film is “[s]et in the quaint, picturesque […]

In March 2005, Okinawa Prefectural Government decreed that October 25th is a Karate Day. This year there are some events planned to commemorate the Karate Day. Okinawa Karate Kaikan […]

The Asahi Shinbun Digital article has published an article on hajichi, tattoo practice, in Okinawa. The article’s headline reads,” […]

The Okinawa Collection in Hamilton Library is pleased to announce that it will host a book talk event with the author, Lee A. Tonouchi, and the illustrator, Laura Kina, on the recently published a […]

The Hawai’i United Okinawa Association (HUOA) has announced that it will host a book signing event with the author, Lee A. Tonouchi, and the illustrator, Laura Kina, on August 17, 2019. Lee, who is […]

Today in history — April 15, 1865 — President Abraham Lincoln died — John Wilkes Booth shot him while he watched a show in Ford’s Theater. A nine-car funeral train carried the […]

Today in history — February 14, 1883 — King Kalakaua unveiled the King Kamehameha I statue. Wearing a Hawaiian flag and a royal standard, the statue stood in front of Aliiolani Hale across from […]

Today in history – February 3, 1864 – King Kamehameha IV was buried with his son Prince Albert at Mauna Loa. On South King Street, a hearse with four white horses pulled Kamehameha IV’s body, […]

Today in history — January 26, 1911 — Joseph Aea, Queen Liliuokalani’s attendant, died in his Pauoa home at 10 p.m. With a “picturesque” personality, he has known Liliuokalani’s family […]

  “Words in Motion: Sharing Writing and Cultural Perspectives E Ho`olauna Kākou” Tuesday, January 22, 11:30am – 12:30pm Building 7, Room 521, Honolulu Campus, 874 Dillingham Blvd. Honolulu, […]

Christmas eve in Honolulu in 1908 is similar to today’s: last-minute shopping, church services, and parties. The Hawaiian Star captured these scenes and more in “Christmas Well Kept.” […]

The Okinawa Collection regrets to inform that one of the resources, Kindai Okinawa shinbun shūsei DVD-ban (Call Number DVD ROM 119) is currently unavailable due to technical issues. We apologize for […]

Listen online to nearly 3,000 recordings in the Hawaiian music collection. In 2002, UHM Library acquired the Hawaiian music collection of Dirk Vogel, who had been collecting Hawaiian music since the […]

New in Kaipuleohone, the UH audio/video ethnographic archive: Transcripts of Ka Leo Hawaiʻi radio program on KCCN, 1972-1988 in ELAN format and plain text. Interactive audio for the transcripts at […]

Biographical directories of noteworthy men and women of Hawaii. 1954, 1966 and 1972. Permission to digitize and post was granted to the UHM Library by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and Oahu […]

Read chapters contributed by UH West Oahu faculty to the 2014 UH Press publication about the Honouliuli Internment and POW Camp, including: Psychic Wounds from the Past, Reviving the Lotus, Ka Ia […]

The latest East-West Center Wire addresses interesting issues:  “How will China’s authoritarian politics change the internet?” “Can Google thrive without China?” and “Does government […]

Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society article detailing the life and achievements of Dr. Harris. The Scholarspace record includes a video presentation delivered April 2012 during the […]

Thanksgiving 1916 — people in Honolulu attended church services, dinners (including luau) at schools and hospitals, and performances. Read more about it in “Thanksgiving in Honolulu Is Day Widely […]

The Hoot student-run newspaper was first published in February 2012 by the University of Hawai’i – West O’ahu when it was located at its old Pearl City campus. It is produced and distributed by […]

As the calendar year winds down it is Holiday Season. Learn more about how Hawaii has celebrated holidays in the Hawaiian Journal of History article by Robert C. Schmitt, retired statistician for the […]

The mission of Hawaiʻi Library Association is to promote library service and librarianship in Hawaiʻi. Next conference is November 16-17. Presentations from recent conferences are available in the […]

This site created and hosted by the UHM Library contains brief biographical records and related images for each of the personalities honored by having a building or architectural feature named after […]

This month in history — November 1847 — the Polynesian described a three-day journey to Kilauea Volcano’s summit, which meant a chilly, voggy thirty-mile horseback ride and an overnight […]

During the fall 2018 and spring 2019 semesters, we will once again be open on all Sundays (excluding standard holidays, the fall interim and spring break). Our hours through Friday, December 14 […]

Today in history — “On the morning of August 12, 1898, troops from the warship USS Philadelphia marched ashore for the ceremony at Iolani Palace formally recognizing the annexation of the […]

As previously noted, the Hawaiian & Pacific Collections reading room is currently closed to the public, and we are providing services on a slightly more limited basis via Hamilton Library's […]

Beginning February 12 and lasting until approximately February 21, the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections reading room will be closed to the public for a construction project. During this period, we […]

Beginning Monday night, November 13, the Hawaiian & Pacific Collections reading room will be part of a construction project that will replace a section of the exterior windows on the third, […]

THE HAWAIIAN & PACIFIC COLLECTIONS, THE UH-MANOA CENTER FOR PACIFIC ISLANDS STUDIES AND THE UH-MANOA CENTER FOR SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES PRESENT:Opeta AlefaioDirector of the National Archives of […]

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 […]

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 Library Administration recently released the below announcement, regarding changes in hours to the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections. *******The UH Library is instituting three changes […]

Maria AhsingKa Wahine 'o Kaionawoodcut printThe Hawaiian and Pacific Collections are currently hosting "From Beneath the Surface: Recent Prints Concerning Hawai'i." The seventeen prints in this […]

The Hawaiian Collection is pleased to announce that the full run of the Honolulu Weekly is now available online at: […]

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 […]

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 […]

--> Pacific Collection librarian Eleanor Kleiber recently finished processing the Jack Tobin Papers, and they are now available for public use. Jack Adair Tobin, Ph.D. (June 15, 1920-June […]

Volume 48 (2014) of the Hawaiian Journal of History is now available online via eVols, the UH-M Library digital repository devoted to materials produced outside of the UH System. (The Library also […]

Yosihiko Sinoto: A Life of Research at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop MuseumThursday, May 7, 7:30pmHale ʻŌhiaKapiʻolani Community CollegeA Hawaiian Historical Society event in support of the upcoming […]

The Hawaiian & Pacific Collections will host a walk-through and talk story with Joy Enomoto this Wednesday, 3/18, from 3-4 p.m. in the H&P reading room. Nautilus the Protector, a series of […]

The Hawaiian & Pacific Collections are currently exhibiting a sculpture titled "snitch," by Aotearoa-based artist Brett Graham. The sculpture is on loan from the UH Art Gallery, which provided […]

The Hawaiian & Pacific Collections are proud to exhibit Nautilus the Protector, a collection of woodcut prints by Joy Enomoto. The series will be only display through mid-April. Joy's artist […]

The Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for the Pacific Islands offers a $15,000 stipend and tuition assistance for graduate recipients as well as $5,000 for undergraduates. The […]

The University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa Library recently coordinated the purchase of a subscription to Ethnographic Video Online, which provides faculty, staff and students throughout the UH system with […]

It is with great sadness that we note the passing of Dr. George W. Grace (September 8, 1921 - January 17, 2015). Dr. Grace was a professor emeritus at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, where he served […]

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the UH-Manoa Center for Japanese Studies. For more information and a downloadable symposium flyer, click here:Please join us this Friday, […]

The below is quoted directly from an email sent by the Na Pua Noeau Ke Ola Mau Scholars Program:The Na Pua Noeau Ke Ola Mau Scholars Program is now acceptingapplications for the Spring 2015 semester. […]

The below is quoted directly from an email circulated by the UH-M Center for Pacific Islands Studies.Aloha kākou!Hereʻs some of the exciting events/activities happening around campus this week! […]

The Hawaiian & Pacific Collections at UH-Manoa Hamilton Library are preparing for a construction project that will ultimately provide better shelving for our print newspaper collections. The […]