News

HPS is thrilled to be the recipients of a Preservation Assistance Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). NEH announced awards on August 28, 2024 that support humanities projects across the country amounting to $37.5 million in grants for 240 humanities projects. The Endowment received 139 eligible applications for the Preservation Assistance Grant (PAG) with HPS as 1 of 57 recipients. HPS’s grant project Ka Pā Ho‛okani! Caring for Hawaiian Music Resources is an effort to organize, preserve, and house 45 rpm and 78 rpm audio records of Hawaiian music from the 1930s-1960s.

See what we’ve been up to in 2023 & what’s happening in 2024! View the .pdf newsletter here.

In March 2023, HPS was awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The funded project is to create an Indigenous-centered Controlled Vocabulary to enhance the description of video oral histories with Native Hawaiian elders. The project will also produce guidelines for developing Indigenous-centered subject headings and preferred terms.
See the announcement HERE.

In January 2023, HPS released new tools to aid in the use of our online resources. A variety of video tutorials provide insight into using and navigating our virtual collections on Digital ʻUmeke, conducting research, and/or how to work with the archive for materials. These tutorials can be accessed through:
Digital ʻUmeke
YouTube
Vimeo

HPS also released a public reference document listing our online resources and where to access them. Check it out: HPS Guide to Online Resources