Hawaiʻi Gov Info: From Internationally Recognized Independent Kingdom to Illegally Occupied State
Channel: Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian Webinars
Date: 2022-01-25

Hawaiʻi’s government documents span various eras of Hawaiʻi’s political history.  This session will cover Hawaiʻi government documents from the establishment of a unified Kingdom of Hawaiʻi by Kamehameha I in the early 1800s through its years as an independent sovereign nation until the kingdom was illegally overthrown in 1893 by a provisional government. The session will then review documents of the Republic of Hawaiʻi (1894-1898), the 1898 annexation of Hawaiʻi by the United States, the Territory of Hawaiʻi from 1900-1959, and statehood beginning in 1959. Important resources for government information from these political eras, including maps, will be discussed. 

Presenter bio: Gwen Sinclair and Kapena Shim
Kapena Shim is a Hawaiʻi Specialist librarian in the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections Department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library. He is also an adjunct instructor in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library and Information Science Program. He lives in ahupuaʻa Haleaha in the moku of Koʻolauloa on the mokupuni of Oʻahu.

Gwen Sinclair chairs the Government Documents & Maps Department at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Library. She is also an adjunct instructor in the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Library and Information Science Program and the author of the open textbook "Government information: a reference for librarians in Hawai‘i." She lives in the ahupuaʻa of Honolulu in the moku of Kona on the mokupuni of Oʻahu.