Em-Powered and sponsored by KUMULIPO a Hawaiian Chant of Creation , and people like you. Hawaii Resource Library was created 1992, and reopened in 2005. For thousands of years, libraries in western culture, have been repositories of knowledge and places of learning. In the 3rd century BC, Plato tutored Aristotle at the Academy. The Greeks wrote on diverse subjects, including physics, poetry, zoology, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, and biology. In 283 B.C. the Library at Alexandria housed thousands of works on papyrus that was later destroyed by fire.
At about the same time, Polynesian people memorized genealogies and the KUMULIPO, the Hawaiian Chant of Creation, that was carried down in verse for many generations. In about the mid 1830's a German translation of the Hawaiian Chant of Creation was available in Europe. The Kumulipo describes the evolution of animals from the sea and eventually into man. Many scholars believe that Charles Darwin read the German translation of The Kumulipo, chant of creation prior to his voyage of discovery.
A good library is an unedited collection. A great library is one that is open to all, all the time. Today, we live in a digital world where information is gathered and transmitted at the speed of light. The Cornell University digital law library and the Perseus Digital Library good examples of internet resources for information 24-7-365. In the early 1990's Bumpy Kanahele and Rolf Nordahl , Mililani and Haunani Trask, Poka Laenui Burgess, Kekuni Blaisdell, Kamuela Kuali'i Lindsey and other internet piorneers brought Hawaii to the world via the World Wide Web. At that same time, the The Hawaii Resource Library was born providing digital information to anyone with a computer and a 56k modem.
Today, the The Hawaii Resource Library is an advanced, digital repository for Polynesian and especially Hawaiian history, culture, art, photos, music, opinions and much more. It allows anyone anywhere in the world to experience and learn from those of us lucky enough to "live Hawaii". Our long term goal is to digitize all of the Hawaiian documents (100,000 photos and 30,000 documents) and things contained in the Hawaii State Archives in Honolulu; providing easy access to all people, anywhere, anytime.
We are doing our best to build a great library. Hope you enjoy the experience, please fee free to contribute by emailing (monets001@hawaii.rr.com) us your Hawaiian documents by JPG, WAV or MIDI, and pdf files (here is a good FREE PDF creator for Windows) for the rest of the world to see or hear and download. If you see something that is clearly not correct from a historic or factual basis, please let us know. Your OPINIONS are welcomed and if appropriate, will be included in the OPINION section. Tell your friends to visit us. We are open 24-7-365, and its manuahi (free) . E Komo Mai.
Library message by Kate Johnson, Librarian
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Kate Johnson |
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Hawaii Resource Library
1741 Ala Moana Blvd. #98
Honolulu, Hawaii
Email: monets001@hawaii.rr.com
Halihali mai 'oe i ka po'e lahui Hawai'i.
Ka ala nui Ea like me ke ka'awila. Imua a i hope.
Ma lela no hana like ka kou, a'ole hakaka, a'ole hukihuki,
ALU LIKE. ... Fannie Leialoha Lindsey (1992)
