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Using Ulukau, The Hawaiian Electronic Library
BOOKS The first six options on the page are "special features" or special collections of information to use. Two other "special features" are also available. We'll discuss all of the "special features" a little later.
For now, let's look at the individual books that are available. Click on the seventh option, called More Books, and you'll see a collection of books. In the top-right corner, click on HDL, which stands for Hawaiʻi Digital Library, and you'll see a second collection of books. From these lists, scroll down to see all of the 71 available books.
With only a couple of exceptions, all of these books work exactly the same. We'll walk you through a children's book to show you the principles of how to use any of these books. First, ensure you are on the Hawaiʻi Digital Library page, and scroll down to the bottom and you will see, near the bottom, the book "Waimānalo: Where I Live."
Click on that book, "Waimānalo: Where I Live", and you will see this:
Notice that next to the picture of the book's cover is the title and
under that it says
The next thing is to get the screen to show a whole page at a time. One
way to do this is to click on the small minus sign
Now just go through the book by clicking on the "right arrow" key on your computer. Here is an example of the introductory page and the 12th page:
A teacher or a parent could set up a computer for a very young person, and all the child has to do is click on the right-arrow on the keyboard to go through the pictures. Notice also that at the back of the book is a list of Hawaiian words being taught, and also a list of books for further reading. Now, let's go back to the library. You do this by clicking on the left arrow at the top-left of your screen. Now you're back:
For slightly older children, they can be taught about how to search for things on the computer. From this book page, click on "Search" in the top-left of the screen:
Notice that the computer curser is "blinking" in the little white box. Just type in the word you want to search for. Hint: the word "north" is in this book, so just type "north" like this:
Now, just hit the "Enter" key on your keyboard and the computer will search for that word:
Notice that under the search box, it says "Word count: north: 1" and "1 pge matched the query." That tells you the computer found the word once on one page out of the whole book. Then it has a little symbol which stands for a page of the book. Next to that it says "Waimānalo: Where I live: Page 8." This shows that the computer found the word "north" on page 8 of the book. Next it says, After skipping those two, it next says, "Is it North?" This is reproducing the text on the page where the word "north" appeared. Now, to go see this, click on the little symbol which stands for a page of the book, and you will see this:
Notice that this is the text from page 8. And notice the word you were looking for is in yellow. You can copy the text and paste it into anything you are working on if you want. And notice that
it tells you the page number (near the top of the page). And under that it says
You can also
click on Also near the
top is the option of clicking on
To leave this page, close it (hit the small "x" at the top of the screen). This returns you to the normal page, with the menus:
There is
another option near the top:
Notice how the
page also says, "The text given here is complete but in a rough layout.
Use the text to quickly check the page and then view the original page for the
correct layout." In other words, you won't see the artwork and other
designs, but you will get the text. In order to see the artwork, click on
Being able to search isn't too exciting for a children's book like this one, but image how you could use it for a 600-page history book! Here are a couple of other hints. No matter where you go within the website about the Waimānalo book, you can always go back to the beginning by clicking on "Waimānalo: Where I Live" at the top of the screen. And you can always go back to the main page for the "Hawaiʻi Digital Library" by clicking on that title at the top. And you can always go back to the "Ulukau" page of the library by clicking on "ULUKAU" at the top-right of the screen. For now, why don't you click on "Hawaiʻi Digital Library" at the top:
This gives you a list of books in this part of the library. These books include children's stories, intermediate stories, general reading, and even a 450-page reference book. Each one of these books uses exactly the same commands as introduced above. Now, let's go back to the "ULUKAU" page, by clicking on that name in the top-right corner:
Next click on the "More Books" choice (the seventh one down), which gives you this:
There are two "special features" on this list, and about 50 regular books. The regular books include four dictionaries that are searchable from cover to cover. Most of the other books are in Hawaiian. If a translation exists for a book, that one is given right after the Hawaiian book. All of the books -- Dictionaries, Hawaiian, or English -- all work exactly like the children's book we covered earlier. Continue to next section...
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