April | 2017 | News from University of Hawai‘i Press

University of Hawai‘i Press will be among the local publishers, organizations, booksellers, and other vendors exhibiting at the 12th annual Hawai‘i Book and Music Festival taking place next weekend, May 6 and 7, at the Frank F. Fasi Civic Grounds next to Honolulu Hale. Admission and parking are free. Go to the festival website to download detailed daily schedules and a PDF of the map, as well as links to the latest news on its Facebook and Twitter feeds.

Attend the presentations by these UH Press authors and follow them to our booth, located alongside Honolulu Hale, for informal signings (times given are for the talks, so signings are about an hour later):

SATURDAY, MAY 6

• David Forbes, In Haste with Aloha: Letters and Diaries of Queen Emma, 1881–1885 (11:00 am) and Paintings, Prints, and Drawings of Hawai‘i from the Sam and Mary Cooke Collection (3:00 pm talk with Mary Cooke; the book is distributed for Mānoa Heritage Center).
• Frank Stewart, editor of Yosihiko Sinoto‘s Curve of the Hook: An Archaeologist in Polynesia (12 noon). The panel will also include Eric Komori, Alexander Mawyer, and Hardy Spoehr.
• Robin Baird, The Lives of Hawai‘i’s Dolphins and Whales: Natural History and Conservation (1:00 pm).
• Michael Tsai, The People’s Race Inc.: Behind the Scenes at the Honolulu Marathon (3:00 pm).

• Tom Coffman, The Island Edge of America: A Political History of Hawai‘i (3:00 pm; no signing at UHP booth).

• John Rosa, Local Story: The Massie-Kahahawai Case and the Culture of History (3:00 pm)

SUNDAY, MAY 7

• Rodney Morales, For a Song (1:00 pm).

• Kapali Lyon will moderate a panel on PALAPALA: A Journal for Hawaiian Language and Literature = Palapala: he puke pai no ka ʻōlelo me ka moʻolelo Hawaiʻi (1:00 pm). No signing is possible but come by for information on this open-access journal.

• Dr. Billy Bergin, The Hawaiian Horse (2:00 pm).

• Winona K. Mesiona Lee and Mele A. Look, the editors of Ho‘i Hou Ka Mauli Ola: Pathways to Native Hawaiian Health, the latest in the Hawai‘inuiākea series (3:00 pm).

• Lillian Howan, The Charm Buyers (4:00 pm). Due to the late hour, buy the book ahead of time to sign at her talk and/or come to her reading on Saturday, May 13, 2:00 to 4:00 pm at Aupuni Place in Ward Warehouse.

At our tent we’ll have event discounts on the above titles and many others, and will offer free shipping on orders taken onsite. Slightly damaged (“hurt”) stock and a few titles in new condition will have special bargain prices.

We look forward to seeing everyone at this outside celebration of story and song!

We’re pleased to announce that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) have awarded the University of Hawai‘i a $90,000 grant to digitize 100 out-of-print UH Press books for open access.

The project is part of the Humanities Open Book Program, a joint initiative by the NEH and the Mellon Foundation. UH Press is one of eight publishers to receive the second round of funding totaling nearly $600,000.

We’re grateful to the Mellon Foundation and the NEH for choosing us for this funding opportunity, which will allow us to introduce our backlist to a new set of readers. Beginning in 2018, the selected titles will be hosted on a custom open-access portal where readers may download them in EPUB and PDF formats.

We also want to give a special shout-out to our colleagues at the UH Mānoa Library, who will assist in the digitization and hosting of the converted books, to our digital publishing manager Trond Knutsen, and to Katherine Fisher, our development and digital projects specialist, who was the lead writer and organizer for our grant application. It is through her tireless efforts that we are able to make more UH Press books accessible online.

Click here to read the complete press release announcement.