Professional Development & Academic Resources

Association of College and Research Libraries provides framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education

E Hoʻoulu Lāhui - UHMC Hawaiian Studies Program website.

Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association has been supporting, enhancing and advocating for the professional role of teachers for 50 years. "New Bargaining Unit 05 members are encouraged to join HSTA to ensure a strong contract, influence those who shape critical policy decisions on issues such as testing, evaluation, licensure and funding, tap into a support network for advice and consultation about your rights, take advantage of opportunities to increase your pay through reclassification, and much more."

HSTA website also provides resources for Professional Development and Supplement Student Learning under their resource tab.

Hawaiʻi Teacher Standards Board  All HIDOE and public charter school teachers, librarians, and counselors must have a license. If no licensed teacher is available, the school may hire an emergency hire teacher. There is a penalty for both the teacher and the administrator if a person is teaching without the proper license or permit.

Also check out Nā Hopena Aʻo, "A Department-wide framework to develop the skills, behaviors and dispositions that are reminiscent of Hawaiʻi’s unique context, and to honor the qualities and values of the indigenous language and culture of Hawaiʻi."

Learning for Justice seeks to uphold the mission of the Southern Poverty Law Center: to be a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements and advance the human rights of all people. 

They offer classroom resources, professional development, magizines and publications.

"At Teaching Strategies, we help early childhood educators build this environment and provide the foundation for success for every child by connecting teachers, children, and families to inspired teaching and learning experiences, informative data, and stronger partnerships through the leading early learning platform and solutions."

They also offer teacher toolkits, free upcoming and on demand webinars, free e-books, their own research on curriculum, assessment, family engagement and professional development. 

EdWeb.net is a free social network and professional learning community where teachers learn from each other and support each other’s needs. Learning communities can be set up for staff, schools, and complexes. Teachers can participate in the webinars that are offered for free.

IDRA is an independent, non-profit organization. Their mission is to achieve equal educational opportunity for every child through strong public schools that prepare all students to access and succeed in college. They offer free webinars, lesson plans, and teaching tools.

Watch this short and useful video where Kaliko shows you 10 tips to increase your efficiency and professional usage of the web based version of Powerpoint.

Browse this tutorial for amazing recommendations regarding formatting best practices along with note taking and annotation tool overviews.

Take a look at this jam packed slideshow that shows you multiple ways to make your Google Slides presentations that much more engaging and useful for your classroom.

Learn the step by step process of using the app Notability on iPad and laptop and its many uses when doing academic research.

Watch this wonderful resource video presented by Kealiʻi Kukahiko, an institutional analyst for the Office of Hawaiian Education, that describes moʻolelo as a navigational process and describes important pivotal moments in Hawaiʻi history. 

This tutorial introduces OneSearch, UH Mānoaʻs Hamilton Library main discovery tool. 

Watch this tutorial by Keahiahi Long, to learn how to use Hathi Trust as a research tool. 

Watch this video to learn Boolean Searching Basics in library databases and catalogs. This tutorial helps to search beyond googleʻs "natural" language and helps you to foster a research language adequate to scholarly research databases. 

This LibGuide was created for students in Kumu April's HWST 491 Senior Capstone course. However, the tab "Laying Out the Research Process" is extremely useful to all scholars writing a research paper, thesis or dissertation. We recommend navigating through all three steps: 1. Developing Your Research Question 2. Create Keywords 3. Explore Databases

Watch this video by "Online Writing Resource Center: Writing Across the Curriculum" to learn how to begin planning a research project, as well as how to create a preliminary research topic. 

View this video to find out what are credible sources for your research papers, research in general and your scholarly endeavors. 

Portland State Universityʻs Writing Center gives a comprehensive, Step by Step, tutorial on how to complete an academic writing project. We recommend Step Nine, "Checking Your Resources" as a guideline for how to use sources appropriately in various formats (direct quote, paraphrase, footnote, etc.).

Zotero is a free citation management tool. It was created originally as a Firefox extension, but has since evolved to include a standalone app that works with other browsers, such as Chrome and Safari. It is an easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Hina Keala has also created a "Zotero 101 Tips and How-Toʻs" Guideline. We encourage you to navigate through every tab provided. 

Also check out University of Pittsburghʻs citation guide

Mendeley is another free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research.

Check out University of Pittsburghʻs Mendeley Guide.

Also watch this tutorial on how to use Mendeley.

EndNote is a software program that helps you organize your research. Some of EndNote's many features allow you to: organize bibliographic citations in your own EndNote Library, transfer references from on-line databases into your EndNote Library, and instantly build bibliographies for your papers. 

Although EndNote is not free, UH Manoa students, faculty and staff can purchase a copy of EndNote at a discounted rate through UH Information Technology Services (ITS). Visit the ITS Endnote Site License Program page to learn how to order your copy.Although EndNote is not free 

To learn how to use the desktop and online version of EndNote check out UH Mānoaʻs guide.

Purdue OWLs writing lab provides detailed guides to MLA, APA, and Chicago citation styles.

The University of Memphis provides information on how to cite government resources.

The Chicago Manual of Style Online is the venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar in an accessible online format.

MLA Style Center, the only authorized Web site on MLA style, provides free resources on research, writing, and documentation.

The authority on APA Style and the 7th edition of the APA Publication Manual. 

UH Maui College Library Resource Guide on everything about citing sources. We also encourage you to look through the tab, Research Guides, to possibly locate your course guide.

Papakilo Database searches across some important collections of Hawaiian knowledge and history from various repositories such as Hawaiʻi State Archives, Mission Houses,  and Bishop Museumʻs Library and Archives to name a few. The database finds a range of indexed information from primary to secondary sources. The database searches across a collection of Hawaiian language newspapers and issues of OHAʻs Ka Wai Ola o Oha.

Punawaiola provides online access to Hawaiʻi legal archives of executive, judiciary, and legislative records from Hawaiʻi State Archives. Punawaiola also includes primary legal materials such as treaties, constitutions, early laws and statures, session laws and reported cases. They also provide collections from Kahn Collection, Wainiha and Ka Huli Ao that shed light on Hawaiian legal issues. 

Digital Archives of Hawaiʻi explores the digital holdings of the Hawaiʻi State Archives. It searches across indexes of Kalapapa Index, Name Card Index, Subject Card Index, Dewey Library Cards, and Captain Cook Collection. These indexes point to primary and secondary sources. They also search across their photo collection. They have limited archival records available online, but you are always welcome to visit the Hawaiʻi State Archives in Honolulu to browse their repository. 

You can also utilize Hawaiʻi State Archiveʻs finding aid. For example if you search the aid for Education you can find the Inventory Records of the Department of Education that was last updated in 2003. 

Kipuka Geo-References Database is a geographical information system (GIS) that utilizes the latest mapping technologies to provide a window into native Hawaiian land, culture and history. Kipuka is useful when researching land ownership and provides Māhele records, survey maps, and TMKs or Tax Map Keys.

Waihona ʻĀina "Provides access to transcriptions, translations, and tabulations of māhele records, Land Grants, Boundary Commission, and Royal Patents. Must pay to access these documents but UH Mānoa students, faculty and staff can obtain up to 5 documents per class research assignment. A big plus with this database is that one can freely search the full-text of the transcriptions and the indexes. Another big plus is that the māhele registers and testimonies are translated." 

Kapena Shim provides Land Tenure Readings and Resources of Hawaiʻi. This guide was created to help researchers locate land records and be a starting point to examine land tenure in Hawaiʻi. Kapena provides starting points, strategies, research guides, and tutorials with each tab. Tabs included are Māhele Records, Land Grants, Land Tenure, Public Lands, Hawaiian Home Lands, and Federal Lands. 

Papa Hoonaauao or Board of Educationʻs Biennial Reports provides online access to BORʻs biennial reports from 1845-1901 through University of Hawaiʻis digital institutional repository. Reports are in ʻŌelo Hawaiʻi and English. You can browse reports with keywords (e.g. school names).

The Hawaiian Mission Houses Digital Collections provides "scans of original, full-text letters, journals and publications, many of which were written or printed right here Honolulu ABCFM Mission Station," and "a selection of daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, film negatives and quilts from our permanent collections." 

Chronicling America searches across a large body of English language newspapers of every state. Within itʻs Hawaiʻi collection it searches from 1840-1922. These papers are the predecessors of Honolulu-Star Advertiser such as the Pacific Commercial Advertiser, The Daily Bulletin, The Hawaiian Star, The Evening Bulletin, and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. During this time other newspapers across America are also writing about Hawaiʻi, so your research can also canvas outside of Hawaiʻi as well. The collection also searches issues of Maui, Kauaʻi and Hawaiʻi Island newspapers.

Check out UH Mānoaʻs Chronicling America Research Guide.

Kapena Shim provides a genealogy guide for researchers that want to locate genealogy records to their family lineage. Tabs are embedded to point you to key genealogy resources and provide you with useful background information. You can also watch this video where Kapena Shim hosts a workshop on Hawaiian Genealogy Resources.

Also, check out Hina Kealaʻs "How-To Genealogy Guide" where she offers forms and worksheets, additional resources, and notes of things to keep in mind when doing such delicate research.

It is with much aloha for the lāhui that the Hawaiian Collection at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa makes this new digital collection of the Kūʻē petitions available

eVols is an open-access, digital institutional repository for the University of Hawaii community and researchers around the world. Items are findable by communities, title, author, and are full-text searchable.

Digitized collections from some major research libraries. Public domain items are freely available while copyrighted items can only be keyword searched.

This research guide, by Hina Keala,  covers Hawaiian activism through movements across the pae ʻāina from 1960-2010, all in which define ea which furthermore defines how the modern Hawaiian in Hawaiʻi lives today.

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal. We aim to present Indigenous worldviews and scholarly research from native Indigenous perspectives from around the world. AlterNative is published quarterly in print and online. AlterNative publishes papers that substantively address and critically engage with Indigenous issues from a scholarly indigenous viewpoint. 

Hūlili examines the nature, needs, and strengths of Kānaka Maoli and Native Hawaiian communities. Through collaboration and critique, Hūlili fosters new connections and shared insights to mobilize greater Hawaiian well-being.

The Hawaiian Journal of History, first published in 1967, is an annual scholarly journal devoted to original articles on the history of Hawai‘i, Polynesia, and the Pacific area. Each issue includes articles on a variety of subjects; illustrations; book reviews; notes and queries; and a bibliography of Hawaiiana titles of historical interest.

The University of Hawaiʻi Library has purchased access to the JSTOR Arts & Sciences I-XV collections, Life Sciences collection, and Business IV. These collections provide full-text journal backfiles in various disciplines. Selected journals in the following subject areas are available: African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology and Statistics.

Access to selected full text of approximately 250 scholarly journals published by university presses. The publishers involved are Johns Hopkins University Press, Carnegie Mellon University Press, Duke University Press, Indiana University Press, MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Pennsylvania State University Press, University of Hawaii Press, University of Texas Press, and the University of Wisconsin Press. Most journals included are in arts and humanities.