U 1VERSITY OF HAWAII LIBRARY Pacific News from Manoa NEWSLETTER OF THE CENTER FOR PACIFIC ISLANDS STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I information, contact Tisha HICKSON at the addresses PACIFIC COLLECTIONS and numbers on the masthead. Developing Libraries for the Twenty-First Century MOVING IMAGES FILM GUIDE The 1998 University of Hawai 'i Pacific Islands In Print and Online Studies Conference will be devoted to issues and An extensively updated fourth edition of Moving concerns for Pacific collections in libraries of the Images of the Pacific Islands: A Guide to Films and region. Pacific Collections: Developing libraries Videos is now available in print and online at for the Twenty-First Century, which takes place www2.hawaii.edu/oceanic/film, thanks to the work of 5- 7 November in Honolulu, will feature Alexander MAWYER. Mawyer's updated guide of presentations on the Pacific collections and archival over 2300 entries contains more than twice the activities at many regional institutions. number of films and videos in the previous edition of David HANLON, Professor of History, UHM, will the guide, compiled and edited by Diane Aoki and speak on "The Chill of History: The Experience, Norman Douglas in 1994. Among the additions are Emotion, and Changing Politics of Archival Research feature films, travel and tourism videos, World War II in the Pacific," and Michael OGDEN and Alan films now available on video, and geographic films, HOW ARD will address internet resources. Anne Perez as well as recently released ethnographic and HAITORI and Kanalu G Terry YOUNG will talk about documentary films and an expanded list of German their experiences researching the pasts of Guam and films. The current guide also differs from the third Hawai'i, and Joan HORI will demonstrate a teaching edition in excluding Hawai 'i films, the inclusion of presentation on myths of Hawaiian history. The which would have nearly doubled the size of the conference, which is cosponsored by the Pacific project. Islands Development Program (PIDP) at the East­ Included in the guide are technical and descriptive West Center, is convened by Karen PEACOCK, Pacific information on each film and video as .well as a list of Curator, Hamilton Library, UHM. For further distributors and their contact nl:Jmbers. Scott KROEKER assisted in the production of the printed guide as well as the online version. The online : :::::1·1·::ilil.1,::::::::1::.i:i,:::i:i·iiii.".:.i::::·:::·i·1::i1:1:i,:,:::,1.;:·i:;iiiiii:::iii!im·i:::.-:.1:::::::: .::.:::.i::::_:::::::::: :: .. ·1.:.-:.-.::.-:::·r:. .. version can be viewed in either a text or graphics mode and is searchable. Printed versions of the guide are available from the center for $20 plus postage. Contact Joan FLANNERY at [email protected]. ISLAND TOWNS: NEW CPIS OCCASIONAL PAPER Island Towns: Managing Urbanization in Sliiil.e.ttt At.ti¥tau.- .. ~ ......... ;~~ ..... ~ .......~ .•.~~~ ~:; .. :;~:; .. .,. i ~ ~ -- ~ ............. · ·1 Micronesia, by John CONNELL and John P LEA, is a study of the problems of urban growth in the Micronesian island states of the Pacific, where rapid :1 1~'111ar•t1~1i~[~~~~~[~~~[~~;.[~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 11::11 111 rural-urban migration since the 1960s has produced iilllilili l~lii~~~-11~~~~~~11[:;ili~~;;~f;~[~;ili~;'~f;l~;'~~~ff ~]~ l \!i unusually high urban population concentrations. The t c. .i)l.t I . HJg Pacific News from Manoa July-September 1998 paper is copublished by the Research Institute for Jahnke is teaching a seminar that examines Asia and the Pacific (RIAP) at Sydney University, indigenous practices of c-ultural representation that which has focused its research activities on promote narratives influencing difference and self­ developing human resources skills that can support determination in the visual arts. sustainability, including sustainable urban development. John Connell, a geographer at UHM Library Receives $100,438 Grant University of Sydney, and John Lea, a development The Institute of Museum and Library Services has specialist in the Department of Urban and Regional announced its 1998 National Leadership grant Planning at the same university, have collaborated on awards. UHM Library received $100,438 for its two other books dealing with urbanization in proposal for a two-year project to begin developing a Melanesia and Polynesia. digital library of Hawaiian and Pacific Islands materials. The project involves expanding access to The 200-page paper (ISSN 0897-8905) is three significant collections: Trust Territory of the available from the Center for Pacific Islands Studies Pacific Islands (TTPI) Photo Collection, Hawaiian for $20 plus postage. To order, contact Joan language newspapers on microfilm, and Hawaii War FLANNERY at [email protected] or at the address Records Depository (HWRD) Photographs. UH will on the masthead. convert over 6000 previously digitized TTPI images to web accessible formats. This will mean that the NEWS IN BRIEF images currently available only through workstations in Special Collections will be accessible throughout Maori Visiting Artist at UH Minoa the region, thus fulfilling a long-standing goal. Artist and educator Robert JAHNKE is the Fulbright The grant will enable the library to purchase Visiting Artist in Residence in the UHM Department microfilm for 10 Hawaiian language newspapers of Art for the 1998-1999 academic year. Jahnke is (1834-1919) and process these to add to the existing affiliated with the Te Whanau a Rakairoa o Ngati webpages at hypatia.slis.hawaii.edu/-hnp. Jlle project Porou tribe and is senior lecturer and Coordinator of includes scanning of 1325 HWRD photos that are Maori Visual Arts at Massey University in Palmerston used to teach about the WWII period in Hawai'i. This North, Aotearoa/New Zealand. The Bachelor of grant is a major step forward in UH Library's Maori Visual Arts degree at Massey is the only ongoing work to serve information needs in Hawai 'i university degree that focuses on the language, art, and the Pacific Islands region. The main participants and culture of the Maori as the conceptual basis for in the project are systems librarian Martha an art program. During the fall semester at UHM CHANTINY, UH archivist Jim CAR1WRIGHT, Hawaiian specialist Joan HORI, and Pacific Curator Karen PEACOCK. Just Dancing to Show at IDFF in November Just Dancing, a short film by Vilsoni and Jeannette HERENIKO had its world premiere to standing-room audiences at the Pusan International Film Festival in Korea in October 1998. Its United States premiere will be held on Saturday, 7 November at 6:30 pm at the Hawai 'i Theater in Honolulu as part of the Hawai 'i International Film Festival (HIFF). Since there will be only one screening in Honolulu, anyone interested in attending is encouraged to get tickets early from the HIFF office, tel 808-528-3456. Just Dancing will also tour the Neighbor Islands after the O'ahu screening. For more information on the festival, including other Pacific Islands and Hawaj, 'i films and videos, see the HIFF website at www.hiff.org. Pacific News from Minoa July-September 1998 STUDENT STUDY TRIP TO TAHITI For two weeks this past summer twelve student drummers from Te Vevo Tahiti no Manoa (UHM Music Department's Tahitian music and dance ensemble) traveled to Tahiti as part of a special music study trip and were warmly hosted by the people of the Protestant church in Puna 'auia. Members of the Galilea Parish arranged a choral greeting at the airport, opened up their meeting hall to house the students "island style," prepared daily meals with wonderful Tahitian fare, planned special outings and feasts, and did everything possible to insure that the students would have a memorable experience. Under the direction of UHM music professor Jane Freeman Moulin, and with the assistance of visiting professor Timi Taupua, the students participated in a full schedule of events. They had lessons with Tahiti's top drummers, visited the workshop of drum UHM Tahitian drumming students with Iriti Hotu (second maker Eugene Hau' a, observed rehearsals of from left), director of Tahiti's premiere drumming group outstanding dance groups, attended the Heiva music and dance competitions, and met many of the people who are important to music and dance performance ... AND TEACHER TRIP TO in Tahiti. The students also had the opportunity to visit the island of Mo'ore'a and to try their hands at TAHITI Tahitian crafts such as making coconut leaf baskets, Under the sponsorship of Consortium for Teaching repairing fish nets, and making bamboo fish Asia and the Pacific in the Schools (CTAPS) and with containers. Feast upon feast provided occasions not the financial support of Hawai'i's Office of Hawaiian only to learn about the preparation of traditioqal Affairs (OHA), a group of 18 teachers, specializing foods but also to share music and dance with their in Hawaiian and Pacific Islands studies, traveled to hosts and to build lasting friendships. At a final night Papeete and the islands of Raiatea, Tahaa, Huahine, tama'ara'a (lfi'au), students entertained the members and Moorea in June of 1998, Directed by Sigfried of the parish and demonstrated the results of their Ramler of the East-West Center, the group had the hard work to visiting students from the island of honor of being accompanied -by Professor Yoshiko Huahine. The goodbyes were tearful, but the music Sinoto, Senior Archaeologist at the Bishop Museum and dance at the airport were a once in a lifetime and a noted pioneer in the discovery and experience. Perhaps equally important to the musical documentation of key archaeological sites in Tahiti. growth, however, was the fact that students returned The purpose of the visit was to explore the historical to Honolulu with a stronger idea of the fundamental and cultural links between Tahiti and Hawai'i and to significance of hospitality in Tahitian culture and the learn about contemporary French Polynesia with value of cooperative group effort.