Collection & Preservation

The Mary Kawena Pukui Hale is made up of six collections that comprise a total of over 3,000 Hawaiian language and cultural resources and materials gathered from both within and outside Kawaihuelani. These resources are produced locally by our faculty and students and/or are used extensively by our faculty and students in their teaching, curriculum development, and research. Many of the resources in these collections cannot be found in any other library or resource center.

All resources are stored in the physical center located on the UH Mānoa campus and available for use by in-house visitors by appointment only. In order to preserve these unique resources and improve their accessibility, the MKPH has created and continues to maintain and expand Hawaiian language databases and electronic indexes for the five main collections.

Please find below a brief description of the six collections and their contents.

General Collection

This collection is the largest of the six that includes a variety of Hawaiian knowledge resources from books and journals, audio and visual media, primary Hawaiian language resources, courses readers, theses, and dissertations.

Ka Leo Hawaiʻi

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This collection consists of indexes, both hardcopy and electronic, for the Hawaiian language radio program entitled Ka Leo Hawaiʻi, which was originally produced in the seventies and eighties by UH Mānoa Hawaiian language faculty and students (and was then resurrected in 1991 and continued to 2000). Mānaleo or Native speakers of Hawaiian were interviewed in Hawaiian about a variety of topics. The Hawaiian language database created for this collection by the Director and students of the MKPH serves as an electronic index for all 674 recordings from the original era of Ka Leo Hawaiʻi (1972-1988). Information (not full transcripts) about each recording is organized into multiple fields, allowing users to search for programs related to specific topic areas, place names, mele, ʻōlelo noʻeau, etc. The actual audio recordings are not available as part of the MKPH's electronic index. Instead they can be accessed for listening via Kaniʻāina or UH Mānoa's Center for Language & Technology (restricted to UH faculty and students).

UHM Hawaiian Language Courses

This collection consists of course proposals, syllabi, printed teaching materials (worksheets, exams, etc.), and articulation documents produced and used by Kawaihuelani’s faculty when teaching their courses.

For Kawaihuelani faculty & staff only.

Images

This collection consists of over 1,000 images (digital and printed), the majority of which are people, places, activities, and items that relate to Hawaiian language, culture, and history. Along with the pictures themselves, the database also includes Hawaiian vocabulary words, wise saying, and related topics for each picture so that teachers can refer to these suggestions when deciding how to implement the pictures in their teaching.

Hawaiian Language Jeopardy

This collection consists of curriculum materials developed by Kawaihuelaniʻs faculty for implementation in Hawaiian language classrooms that take the form of a variation on the game “Jeopardy” played in Hawaiian either on the computer or on a board game format. The database for this collection was built to store and organize the different versions of this game both in their entirety as well as the individual questions, answers, and multi-media files (pictures, video, audio) that make up each version.

Teaching Aids

This collection consists of a variety of Hawaiian language teaching aids such as board games, posters, flash cards, lesson plans, etc.