Hawaii Digital Newspaper Project Presentation

Please come to my and Erenst’s presentation! Here’s the announcement I wrote:

Hawaii Digital Newspaper Project: Digitizing Hawaii’s English-Language Newspapers and Their Significance
By Alice Kim & Erenst Anip
Hamilton Library, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Thursday, March 22, 2012
12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Hamilton Library, room 306
University of Hawaii at Manoa

Graduate Research Assistant Alice Kim and Project Manager Erenst Anip will introduce the Hawaii Digital Newspaper Project. Hamilton Library is digitizing microfilmed Hawaii English-language newspapers for Chronicling America (http://chroniclingamerica.com). Chronicling America, a National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) website, provides free public access to digitized American newspapers published from 1836 to 1922 from various states, including Hawaii.

Alice and Erenst will explain the digitization process, the historical significance of the newspapers, and how researchers can use them. As the “rough draft” of history, newspapers in Hawaii documented and shaped historical moments, including the leprosy epidemic, the labor strikes in the plantations, and the overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy. Newspapers can be used to research history, politics, economics, social relations, language, fashion, genealogy, and past lifestyles.

The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress sponsor this project. UH Manoa Librarians Martha Chantiny and Joan Hori oversee the project as the co-principal investigators.

For more information on Chronicling America, visit the following websites:

Chronicling America
http://chroniclingamerica.com

Hawai‘i Digital Newspaper Project
https://sites.google.com/a/hawaii.edu/ndnp-hawaii/

University of Hawai‘i Library LibGuide
http://guides.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/chroniclingamerica

National Digital Newspaper Program
http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/
http://neh.gov/projects/ndnp

Snippets from Hawaii’s newspapers on the library’s Flickr account:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/uhmlibrary/collections/72157623751147050/

My Current Library Work

This advertisement for the Hawaiian Road Show ran in the Democratic Banner (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) on November 8, 1921. The Democratic Banner., November 08, 1921, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3 http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88078751/1921-11-08/ed-1/seq-3/

Nowadays at the library, I’m working on two projects. For the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology,  I’m scanning documents, developing metadata, and submitting the documents and metadata for upload onto the HIGP’s geothermal collection on ScholarSpace.

For Chronicling America, the historical newspaper site project, I’m continually writing historical feature articles relating to Hawaii. But nowadays I’m running out of topics to write about. Currently, I’m developing an article relating to the news coverage of Hawaiian athlete Duke Kahanamoku. I recently finished an article about the perception of hula on the U.S. mainland in the late 1800s and early 1900s (which is awaiting approval).

I volunteered to assist in writing a grant proposal, to expand my writing portfolio. Beth, my supervisor, was cool enough to let me help write the proposal for funding for the second round for the Hawaiian Waters book digitizing project.

I plan to talk more about my work in the HIGP and Chronicling America projects in this blog later on. But for now, I’ll continue to develop metadata for the HIGP project and hopefully find new story ideas for the historical feature articles.