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Celebrating thePeace Corps at50!The University of Hawaii atManoa and Hilo played vitalroles in early Peace Corpsvolunteer training in the1960s. Many returningvolunteers reside in Hawaii

M is for Margueritewho mused over GoreyInterview with Marguerite Simpsonby Deborah Dunn, Preservation Dept.Photos by Lynn Davis

In the fall of 2008 I was hired by Hamilton Library’sPreservation Department to assist in the preparation ofthe John A. Carollo Edward Gorey Collection for exhibit atthe UH Art Gallery. As a student in the library andinformation science and museum studies programs with aparticular interest in preservation and conservation, thiswas an exceptional opportunity.

John A. Carollo, collector and composer, donated his personal

collection of Edward Gorey materials to the University of Hawai’i

Library.

The first step in preparing the comprehensive collectionfor exhibit was to complete a full inventory. This includednot only reconciling precisely what was on our shelveswith our records, but confirming that our notes includedthe supplemental information provided by the donor JohnCarollo, who often noted a book's rarity in a certain formatand relayed stories about the acquisition of a particularlyexciting item. Since this fifteen hundred item collectionincludes monographs, serials, and artifacts as various ascoffee mugs, calendars, a fur coat, an umbrella, andoriginal fine art, the inventory process was quite achallenge. My first year with the collection was also spent rehousingthe materials so that they might be both better protectedand more accessible to students and researchers. This

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and contribute to the islandsin any ways. The exhibitincludes historical filmfootage of President Kennedyand Sargent Shriver, archivedphotos including the HiloTraining Center, the WaipioValley training village,personal photos and journals,Peace Corps memorabilia andartifacts provided by localReturned Peace CorpsVolunteers[www.RPCVH.org]. Theexhibit is admission free andopen to the public duringUHM Hamilton Librarybuilding hours during theSpring 2011 semester.

Library EventsApril 1 ~ UniversityLibrarian's Lecture Series2011. CRL GlobalResources: Collections andServices, James Simon,Center for Research LibrariesApril 4 ~ Annual EdibleBook Contest. To enter theContest, (1) complete theEdible Book Entry Form, (2)bring a contribution for theHawaii Food Bank (cannedgoods or $ donation), (3)bring your Edible Book toHamilton Library between8AM -11:30AM. Downloadthe entry form!

April 12 ~ Faculty LectureSeries, Ke Ala Pono – ThePath of Justice, MelodyKapilialoha MacKenzie, Ka

rehousing process included making polyester book coversto protect rare dust jackets, removing staples that wouldin time rust and damage the very books they bound,encapuslating posters so that they could be more safelyhandled, and transferring items to archival boxes andacid-free folders. One of my favorite rehousing tasks wasthe creation of custom tuxedo boxes for dozens upondozens of the collection’s many books. After the art department’s curatorial team selected itemsfor inclusion in the exhibit, my daily tasks moved largely toexhibit inventory control. Books were divided onto sevenbook trucks representing the seven main sections of theexhibit, then subdivided based on exhibit case number. Certainly the most exciting part of the exhibit preparationbegan after this organization was complete, for it meantthat treatment could begin. The entire preservationdepartment worked together to mat posters and originalartwork, mend slightly torn book jackets, dry clean booksto make sure they were at their best, and create customcradles to safely display books open to the desired page.

Deborah Dunn, Book Conservator with Edward Gorey books

displayed on custom-made cradles.

Since the installation of the exhibit, I have been busyconstructing a database for the collection using our newlyacquired FileMaker Pro software. This program has givenme exceptional flexibility to create searchable fields fornot only traditional fields like author, date, and publisherinformation, but fields specific to the exhibit. Examplesinclude case number, section name, exhibit teamidentification number, and treatments performed.


Huli Ao Center for Excellencein Native Hawaiian Law,William S. Richardson Schoolof Law Click here for more

AchievementsSalim Mohammed wasselected by the AmericanLibrary Association’s EmergingLeaders Committee toparticipate in the 2011 Classof Emerging Leaders,sponsored by the ALA Mapand Geography Round Table(MAGERT) to attend both ofthe ALA conferences. Salimwas also selected byAssociation of ResearchLibraries Diversity Programsto participate in the2011-2012 ARL Leadershipand Career DevelopmentProgram (LCDP) as a Fellow.

5 MillionthMetadataRecord!A record from the theLibrary's ScholarSpacerepository was the 5 millionthmetadata record to beharvested to OCLC WorldCatthrough the Digital CollectionGateway. The University ofHawaii Manoa’s DSpacecommunity coveringEnvironmental Change,Vulnerability, andGovernance, was harvestedduring the week of November1, 2010, resulting in R. A.

Marguerite Simpson with items from the John A. Carollo Edward

Gorey Collection.

It has been a privilege for me to work with the EdwardGorey collection over the past two years. Being able towork closely with library and exhibit professionals so earlyon in one’s career is a rare opportunity, and one that I willforever appreciate.

Marguerite Simpson completed her Masters in Libraryand Information Science from the University of Hawaii inDecember 2010.

Pau HanaStory and photo by StuDawrs

It’s a hot day in Saipanin 2007, and KarenPeacock is looking out tosea from the BanzaiCliffs. She is dwarfed bythe memorials to thehundreds of Japanesecivilians who jumped totheir deaths here at theclose of WWII. Officiallywe’re working, buyingmaterials for the PacificCollection at theUniversity of Hawai‘i atMänoa’s HamiltonLibrary. Unofficially it’s afarewell tour, as Karenplans to soon retire. We’d been island-hopping for threeweeks—Marshall Islands,Federated States ofMicronesia, Guam andnow here—gatheringeverything we could:government documents,news-papers andmagazines, vernacularBibles, audio cassettes,

ProcessionalScroll as aFamilyDocumentby Tokiko Y. Bazzell Ms. Donna (Uchima)Nakamura and herUchima family siblings ofsix (Marion (Uchima)Nakasato, Jessie(Uchima) Kaneshiro,Katherine (Uchima)Chinen, Charlotte(Uchima) Ohara, FredMasa Uchima and Sue(Uchima) Tomita), haveprovided an excitingopportunity for HamiltonLibrary and UHMOkinawan studiescommunity. OnNovember 3, 2010, theUchimas presented the"Uchima FamilyDocument" to PaulaMochida, UniversityLibrarian.

The Uchima Family


Hamilton’s article entitled‘Greengold’ ~ A Late SeasonAvocado, marking the fivemillion record mark. Tocelebrate this 5 million recordMilestone the article will befeatured in an upcomingOCLC News release. Inaddition, OCLC provided aprofessional developmentstipend to Beth Tillinghast asthe Project Director forScholarSpace to use to attenda conference.

2010 AlohaUnited WayPublic SectorOrganizationof the YearThe University of Hawai’i atMānoa Library has beennominated for this year’sAUW Public SectorOrganization of the Year. Inaddition, Salim Mohammed,MAGIS Librarian, has alsobeen nominated Coordinatorof the Year.

The Spirit of CommunityAwards was established tothank and honor individualsand companies whose highlevel of commitment throughfinancial and in-kind supporthas allowed Aloha United Wayto further its mission.

Hues of aRainbowExhibitEmpowers the

DVDs. Earlier that daywhile visiting amom-and-pop storewhere Karen had spentcountless childhoodafternoons, the ownergave her a bound copy ofhis genealogy—a one-of-a-kind document thatsomeday, for the rightperson, will be ahistorical treasure. People are oftensurprised when I tell themthat anti-malaria pills anda passport are the toolsof my profession as alibrarian, or that in thelast four years my workhas taken me to Tahiti,the Cook Islands, PapuaNew Guinea,Guadalcanal, NewCaledonia, Fiji andSamoa. While I assurethem that it is indeedwork, I realize it’s also acharmed existence. I oweit almost entirely to Dr.Karen Peacock, who forthe last seven years wasmy instructor, mentorand, later, colleague. You’ve probably neverheard of Karen, but shewas world-famous. Shewas one of three people—along with LynetteFuruhashi and RenéeHeyum—who built thePacific Collection intoone of the world’spremier researchlibraries. It aims topreserve the entirehistorical record of thePacific—every subject,every format, everylanguage—starting whenEuropean voyagers firstentered the region andwrote what they saw. It isliterally priceless, and as

Document was identifiedas a long lost familylineage document for theancient "Mo" clan, whowere influential andengaged in mattersrelated to the RyukyuKingdom. Historicalrecords in Okinawaindicated the existence ofthis document, however,no one had seen theoriginal manuscript for along time. When theUchimas emigrated fromOkinawa to Hawai'i, thedocument was safelybrought over andsurvived the destructionof WWII in Okinawa.During the RyukyuKingdom, only selectedelite families working withthe Kingdom wereallowed to create alineage record. Eachrecord bears the RyukyuKing's royal seal on thebeginning page. Afterrecording a new familyname, an approval sealwas stamped to ensure itwas official. The UchimaFamily Document isindeed an officially-approved family lineagerecord with all theseseals. During her recent trip tothe Okinawa PrefecturalMuseum, Naha,Okinawa, Tokiko Bazzell,Japan SpecialistLibrarian, made anotherexciting find linking thelineage document toHamilton Librarycollections. Thedocument starts withUchima the VIII (Anhan),who was the second sonof Uchima the VII (Antai).The historical recordshows that Antai was


FilipinoCommunityby Maria Elena Clariza The Internet has replacedlibraries as the major sourceof information. Did I justhear loud voices of dissent? Sadly, this has become acommon sentiment in ourcommunity. It’s a problemwhen we are struggling tomaintain our relevance inlight of budget cuts. Much topeople’s surprise, HamiltonLibrary has some of the bestcollections in the nation if notthe world. The Philippinecollection alone is among thetop three largest collections inthe nation. How do we let our communityknow about our resources? From September 5, 2010until December 5, 2010,Hamilton Library hosted theMga Sinag sa Balangaw orHues of a Rainbow Exhibit inthe Bridge Gallery. Theexhibit featured Filipinocostumes, textiles and otherartifacts. In the early eveningof October 26, 2010,traditional Filipino music, foodand dance summoned visitorsto the Bridge Gallery tocelebrate the Filipino-American Historical month. The goal of the exhibit was toattract students to the libraryand highlight our collection tocommunity members. It wasa huge success! When Iplanned this exhibit, little didI know that it would garnerso much Filipino pride. Agraduate student wrote tome, “Continue doing greatwork especially related to thePhilippines, because it makesa huge difference on ourimage as Filipinos and as anation.” Some Filipinos whocame to the exhibit had tearsin their eyes. It touchedthem deeply to see theirculture represented in apublic space. I was truly stunned by theirreaction. It made me realizethat there is more to

curator Karen was itsface. Born in 1948 in Indiana,Karen was raised inMicronesia—Palau,Pohnpei and Saipan. Herfather, Daniel J. Peacock,served as director oflibrary services for theUS-administered TrustTerritory of the PacificIslands, a vast swathencompassing the wholeof postwar Micronesia.Karen always maintainedstrong ties to the region,but virtually all of herprofessional andacademic life played outin Honolulu. Her careerwith the UH libraryspanned more than thirtyyears, nearly all of it inthe Pacific Collectionwhere she served as aPacific specialist librarianand since 1987 ascurator.

It’s impossible to quantifyKaren’s contribution tothe library or to PacificStudies in general. Onthe one hand, she under-took such high-visibilityprojects as surveyingsome 50,000photographs in thecollection, which yieldedthe online Trust TerritoryPhoto Archives, acollection of 8,000-plusdigital images now freelyavailable on the Internet.But it was the hidden,day-to-day work ofgathering under one roofeverything from a 1773

trained as a Royalmusical expert when hewas young. He was thenselected to join PrinceTomigusuku's processionon behalf of the RyukyuKing Chuzan entourageto Edo Castle in 1710.There are threeinstitutions holding scrollsthat depict thisprocession and theSakamaki/HawleyCollection of theHamilton's AsiaCollection Department isone of them. In 2006, theLibrary restored anddigitized this rare scroll incollaboration with theNational Museum ofJapanese History inJapan.

The Uchimas wish thedocument to remain inHawai'i and requestedthat it be made availablefor scholarly researchthrough the UHM Library.The Library is nowplanning to partner withthe Okinawa PrefecturalMuseum to restore,digitize and exhibit theUchima FamilyDocument. The Libraryand Museum hope tocomplete this excitingproject and share it at theMuseum during the nextWorld UchinanchuFestival in Naha inOctober 2011. For moreinformation and/or donateto the project, pleasecontact Tokiko Y. Bazzellat 956-2315 [email protected]


Hamilton Library than meetsthe eye. Not only did theexhibit highlight ourcollections, but it also allowedour community to view thelibrary in a different way. Itbecame an empoweringcommunity space of which allof us could be proud.

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account of Louis-Antoinede Bougainville’s voyagearound the world to thelatest Tonga phone bookthat made the collectionwhat it is today. Perhaps Karen’s greatestlegacy lies with theliterally hundreds ofPacific Island studentsshe helped negotiate lifefar from home, not justaiding their research butserving as mentor anddefault auntie, makinglate-night airport runs andthe occasional check-upphone call. Today manyof these former studentsare the politicians,university presidents,researchers andentrepreneurs who haverisen to prominence asvarious Pacific Islandnations emerged fromcolonial rule. Particularlyin Micronesia, there arefew places you can gowhere someone doesn’tknow the Peacock familyname. Karen passed away onAugust 13, 2010, after aten-month battle withcancer. By coincidenceI’d been looking that dayat a photo taken threeyears earlier on herfarewell tour. She’sstanding at the BanzaiCliffs, looking out towardthe horizon where thePacific becomes thePhilippine Sea. I suspectat that moment she wascontemplating whereshe’d been, not just onthis trip, but all of it. In her office she had asign: “Every day in someway I will make my island

The 1710 Procession ofRyukyuans Enroute toEdo Castle may beviewed at the OkinawaCollection Website DigitalArchives page.

New ArtDonation:The BuoyProjectby Adam Stratton

Growing up in Hawaii, theocean has always beenan essential part of life,full of experiences thatpush the limits ofcomprehension. TheBuoy project gives theviewer an opportunity tobecome a participant inthe ephemeraldocumentation of theobject and in turn, sharein the experiences of thepeople who witnessedthe events.

The fundamentalgeologic process thatcreates rock is similar tohow clay is changed intoceramics. The buoymakes it possible for therock-like material to bebuoyant enough to bedocumented in theHawaiian ocean. Eachbuoy has a story, some ofwhich is relatable througha process ofdocumentation, similar to


better.” If you think aboutthe Pacific Islands as oneland mass united by agreat body of water, you’llunderstand when I saythat in this she was agreat success.

This article originally

appeared in the in-flight

magazine, Hana Hou, Vol. 13,

no. 6, ec. 2010 - Jan. 2011.

the process that scientificbuoys collect and reportenvironmental data.

Each step in the processof creating an object outof clay leaves a trace ofwhat was doneembedded in thematerial. Each buoyhighlights the place, time,and process that cametogether creating theexperience. Theassociations that I makewith the buoy are derivedfrom the research thathas been ongoingthroughout thedevelopment of thisproject. The project is anongoing accumulation ofexperiences inspired bythe ocean and the life ofthe people in the State ofHawaii. Search for “TheBuoy Project” on Youtubefor more.

The donated buoy islocated in HamiltonLibrary's ScienceTechnology Commonsnear the elevators.

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