Special Presentations

Open Access: An evolving alternative or a maturing threat?

Haricombe, Lorraine J. — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Keynote address delivered October 22, 2012 during Open Access Week. University of Hawaii at Manoa Event Powerpoint presentation with no audio; audio file of talk and subsequent questions/answers delivered in conjunction with the powerpoint presentation

Acting Locally, Serving Globally: Generating Support For Research Libraries Into The Next Millennium

Haak, John — Sun, 01 Mar 1998 00:00:00 GMT

Paper presented at the International Conference on New Missions of Academic Libraries in the 21st Century. Beijing, China, October 25-28, 1998.

United States Archives in the Philippines, 1898-1921

Beredo, Cheryl — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Cheryl Beredo chronicles the establishment and growth of the Bureau of Archives, a part of the United States' government in the Philippines. Exploring its rich, complex, and understudied history within the context of the colonial administration in the islands, Beredo, an archivist by training, asks: "If roads brought economic development of the Philippines, schools molded model citizens, civil service trained skilled laborers, and a bicameral legislature transformed natives into self-governable subjects, what did the state archive offer?" A graduate of Cornell University and the University of Pittsburgh, Ms. Beredo is completing her doctorate in American Studies at the University of Hawai’i. She worked as an archivist at Cornell and Harvard universities and was a fellow at the Massachusetts Historical Society. Over the past year, she conducted archival research in the Philippines and the continental U.S. Co-sponsored by the Association of Hawaii Archivists, Museum Studies Graduate Certificate Program, and UHM Library. Video only available to the UH Community.

Research as the Movies: Documentaries, Radio, Theatre, and Editing as Scholarly Production(s)

Howes, Craig — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Drawing examples from his experiences as a television documentary and radio producer, as a journal and book editor, as a performer and dramaturge, and as a member of university Personnel, and Tenure and Promotion Review Committees, Craig Howes will discuss how such academic work differs from the paradigms embedded in traditional notions of university research; how production scholarship poses challenges for those engaged in it, and for those assigned to evaluate its importance or relevance; and how such productions can affirm the value of scholarship outside of the academic community while at the same time being professionally valuable in themselves.

Role of Geographic Information Systems in the Social Sciences

Bhutada, Shriram — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

There has been growing interest in application of GIS in social sciences recently. The intent of this presentation is to provide an introduction to the role of GIS in social sciences. GIS can play various roles in social science research such as geovisualization, spatiotemporal analysis, information integration and geographically weighted regression. Some examples of GIS projects will also be discussed. Additionally, the audience will be introduced to geocoding and custom geocoding programming along with a list of available GIS and non-GIS data sources.

Global Positioning System GPS 101

Nolan, Karyn — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

November 2009 Library Forum video: Karyn Nolan

Making the Transition from Text to Data Repositories

Schwarzwalder, Robert — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Held on August 2, 2010 in Hamilton Library, Bob Schwarzwalder, Associate University Librarian for Science & Engineering Libraries and Director of the Digital Libraries Systems and Services talks about Stanford's plans in creating a institutional repository.

Are Girls Going Wild in the New Millennium? Facts and Myths about Girls' Aggression and Violence

Chesney-Lind, Meda — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Nearly a decade into the 21st Century, it seems like the news about girls is increasingly alarming. We've had gangsta girls peering over the barrels of guns, mean girls, girls gone wild, and even brawling cheerleaders. Given the high level of interest in girls' use of violence and aggression, it is actually remarkable that so little careful academic work has been made available to those concerned with the facts and not the hype. This talks aims to fill this void by making two major contributions to the discussion of girls' aggression and violence. Faculty Lecture Series: "Are Girls Going Wild in the New Millennium? Facts and Myths about Girls' Aggression and Violence" Meda Chesney-Lind Professor of Women's Studies October 7, 2009

What Books are Bytes, What Adds Value?

Guthrie, Kevin — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Held on April 7, 2010 in Hamilton Library. Kevin Guthrie, president of ITHAKA (Ithaka S+R, JSTOR, ArtSTOR, & Portico), gives a commentary on the forces impacting higher education and the dissemination of information.

Repackaging the Library: What Faculty Think

Guthrie, Kevin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Held on April 7, 2010 at Hamilton Library, Kevin Guthrie, president of ITHAKA (Ithaka S+R, JSTOR, ArtSTOR, & Portico), gives a talk based on a 2009 national survey of faculty and their perceptions of the value of libraries and what librarians do.

Open Access and Changes in Scholarly Communication

Lynch, Clifford — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Held on February 24, 2010 in UH at Manoa's Art Auditorium. Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) in Washington, DC, discusses some of the policy and technical issues involved in moving towards open access to traditional publications and also to the underlying data that supports these publications.

The Future of Special and Distinctive Collections in the Digital Age

Lynch, Clifford — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Held on February 24, 2010 in Hamilton Library. Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) in Washington, DC, discusses how digital technology is changing the way in which special and distinctive collections are acquired, organized, used, curated and preserved, and what this implies for the future of research libraries, both in their connection to the scholarly world and to the broader society.

Telescopes: Big and Small

Tokunaga, Alan T. — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

While new large telescopes garner much of the press coverage, the mid-size telescopes (less than about 4 meters in diameter) continue to be major contributors to astronomical research. This lecture highlights the research done with the 3.0-meter (9.8 ft) NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF), a telescope on Mauna Kea dedicated for planetary science and mission support, operated for NASA by the University of Hawaii. Tokunaga will review the increase of telescope aperture from Galileo's time to the present, where telescopes as large as 30 meters in diameter are now being planned.

The Antikythera Mechanism

Wynn-Williams, Gareth — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Professor Gareth Wynn-Williams will lecture on the ancient Greek enigma, "The Antikythera Mechanism." Recent X-ray analysis of the encrusted piece of bronze from a 2000-year-old Greek shipwreck shows it to be an astronomical computing device of astonishing complexity. What did it do? What purpose did it serve?

Galileo: The First Astronomer to Use a Telescope

Joseph, Robert D. — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:59:46 GMT

This year celebrates the 400th anniversary of the use of telescopes for viewing the universe. On August 25, 1609, Galileo Galilei first demonstrated his telescope for Venetian lawmakers. To commemorate the event and inaugurate UH Manoa’s celebration of the International Year of Astronomy, Dr. Robert Joseph, Professor at the Institute for Astronomy, will present the first joint lecture for the 2009 Faculty and Astronomy Lecture Series on Thursday, September 10th at 3:30 pm in Hamilton Library’s Room 301. Galileo made several discoveries with the telescope which undercut the classical geocentric cosmology inherited from the Greeks. Because Aristotelian thought was the core of the university curriculum at that time, as well as part of the Scholastic synthesis with Christian theology, Galileo into some trouble with his academic colleagues as well the Church. In this talk Joseph will describe some of Galileo's discoveries with his telescope, his scientific style, and his confrontation with the Roman Inquisition. Faculty Lecture Series: "Galileo: The First Astronomer to Use a Telescope" Robert Joseph Astronomer at Institute for Astronomy September 10, 2009

The New Solar System

Jewitt, David — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:09:39 GMT

Our perception of the Solar System has changed greatly in the last 20 years, in large part because of work done in Hawaii. We now recognize three major domains - those of the rocky planets, the giant planets and the comets - and, we are beginning to understand the connections and inter-relations between them. The region beyond Neptune, in particular, has emerged as an unexpectedly rich repository of clues about the formation and early evolution of the solar system. Prof. Jewitt will present a sweeping and accessible overview of the new solar system and of the latest ideas concerning its origin. Faculty Lecture Series: "The New Solar System" David Jewitt Professor of Physics and Astronomy Institute for Astronomy September 17, 2008