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LIS 693: Resources in Hawaiian & Pacific Librarianship, fall 2014

Week 1: August 28 -- Intro

 

Opening remarks, introductions, discussion of assignments. (Kleiber, Dawrs, Minatodani & Shim)

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Tour of Hawaiian and Pacific Collections stacks. (Kleiber & Dawrs)

 

  • Hand out assignment: Final project

Week 2: September 4 -- Intro

 

Overview of the Pacific: Guest speaker: Dr. Terence Wesley Smith. Center for Pacific Islands Studies

Dr. Terence Wesley Smith's photo

 

 

 

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H&P Studies (centers, activities, publications, collections).  (Kleiber & Shim)

Required Readings for September 4

 

Suggested Readings

Week 3: September 11 -- databases and newspapers

 

H&P search techniques 1: databases & reference material.  (Dawrs)

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H&P search techniques 2: newspapers.  (Dawrs & Minatodani)

 

Required Readings

Week 4: September 18 -- spoken/written culture

 

Capturing Culture: The transition from oral to written.  (Dawrs)

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Capturing Culture: Indigenous Voices From (and beyond) the Page.  (Dawrs & MacKenzie)

Kealii MacKenzie's photo

 

  • Reference question #1
  • Final project proposal

Required Readings

Suggested Readings

Week 5: September 25 -- music; science

 

Capturing Culture: Music, hula, chant and hip-hop.  (Kleiber & Shim)

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Agriculture, food production, health and medicineGuest speaker: Eileen Herring, Science and Technology Librarian

Presentation available here.

Eileen Herring's photo

 

 

Reference Question #2

Required Readings

Week 6: October 2 -- stats, geneology

 

Who’s Counting and Who Counts: statistics, demography and censuses. (Kleiber & Minatodani)

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Who’s Counting and Who Counts: genealogy & biography.  (Shim)

 

Reference Question #3

Required Readings

Week 7: October 9 -- archives; law

 

Federal and state documents and government archivesGuest speaker: Dainan Skeem, University of Hawaiʻi Archives

Dainan Skeem's photo

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Legal materials.  (Dawrs & Minatodani)

 

Reference Question #4

Required Readings

Suggested Readings

Week 8: October 16 -- land; maps

 

History and Documentation: Land Documentation.  (Shim)

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History and Documentation: Maps.  (Dawrs) 

Libguides Tutorial (Kleiber)

 

Required Readings

Suggested Reading

Week 9: October 23 -- symposium

 

Attend: Hawaiian Librarianship Symposium: Preservation

 

  • Hand out assignment: Reaction Paper #1

 

Reference Question #5

Week 10: October 30 - collection management

 

What Would You Do? General issues in collection management.  (Dawrs)

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Reformatting (microfilm, digitization, web-archiving and more).  (Kleiber)

 

  • Hand out assignment: Reaction Paper #2
  • Hand out assignment: What Would You Do? group project

 

Reaction Paper #1

Required Readings

Suggested Readings

Week 11: November 6 - description

 

Description and Classification: LCSH, LoC, MaoriSH, and other alternatives)Guest speakers: Koa Luke and Shavonn Matsuda - ʻUluʻulu: The Henry Kuʻualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive of Hawaiʻi

Koa Luke's photo Shavonn Matsuda's photo

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Discussion with a Pacific LibrarianGuest speakers: Jenny Helieisar, facilitated by Jean Thoulag

 

Reaction Paper #2

Required Readings

Suggested Readings

  • Goldberg, Jolande. "Library of Congress Hawaiian Law Classification Project." 2013. (part 1, part 2, part 3)

Week 12: November 13 -- Anthropology v. History

 

"What would you do?" group assignment presentations

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History vs. AnthropologyGuest speakers: Ron Williams & Kekuewa Kikiloi

Ron Williams's photo Kekuewa Kikiloi's photo

 

  • Hand out assignment: Reaction paper #3

 

What Would You Do? group project: presentation and paper due

Required Readings

Suggested Readings

Week 13: November 20 - Field trip

 

Field trip

 

Reaction Paper #3

Thanksgiving

 

Give thanks, no class!

Week 14: December 4 - student presentations

 

Student presentations: final projects

Week 15: December 11 -- conclusion

 

Wrap up, post session survey, review

 

Final Projects