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Using Ulukau, The Hawaiian Electronic Library
NEWSPAPERS Now, click on "Ulukau" at the top of the screen and you go back to the main menu:
The next special feature to learn about is the third one on this screen, entitled "Hawaiian Newspapers". Click on this, and see:
This site has tens of thousands of images of pages of Hawaiian-language newspapers, and tens of millions of searchable words. Near the top of the screen is a horizontal bar with these words: "search", "titles", and "dates". For now, click on the second one, "titles", and see this:
This gives you a list of Hawaiian-language newspapers that have some or all of their pages on Ulukau. Click on the third one, "Ka Nonanona" ("The Ant"), and see this:
This shows that the newspaper was published for five years. Click on the second year of publication, 1842, and see this:
This lists all the surviving issues that were published during that year. Notice that the list gives the volume number (and issue number) and also the date. To the left it gives two symbols: the first one means text is available for that newspaper. The second symbol means that images are available for that newspaper. Click on the first symbol (the text symbol) for the first newspaper on the list (the one from January 4, 1842), and see this:
Scroll down: this lists all the text from the first page of that newspaper. Remember: you can "highlight" this text, copy, and paste it into any document you might be working on. Near the top of the page it says "detach text". This is the same as with the books. By clicking on it, you get the text without the web menus. Go ahead, click on it, and you will see this:
Click on the "x" to close this browser window, and it leaves you with the regular window for this newspaper,
Also near the top, it says "fullsize image". This is also like the books: it opens up Adobe Reader and an image of the newspaper page. You can enlarge the image, print it, even save it to your computer. If you did open Adobe Reader, click on the left-arrow at the top-left of the screen. That returns you to the regular page. Now, click on "dates" on the horizontal bar near the top of the screen, and you will see this:
This lists all of the tens of thousands of available newspaper pages, all in date order. It starts in the beginning (1834), and goes on into the 20th century. Next, click on "search" on the horizontal bar near the top, and you will see this:
It works like the other search parts of Ulukau. The cursor is blinking in a small white box. Just write in the word you are looking for, like "manoa" and then hit "Enter" and you will see:
You will notice that it says the "word count" for "manoa" was 746: this is how many times the computer found that word. It also says that "330 pages matched the query," so the word appeared a total of 746 times within 330 pages. The 330 pages are then listed, in date order. In each case, the little symbols appear, showing if the newspaper is available in text or image form, or both, and then it gives you the issue number, date, and page number. Under that, in gray, is the sentence where the word appeared, and the word is in bold. For example, the fourth page that was found in this search is from the newspaper "Ka Nonanona," Volume 1, Number 9, from October 26, 1841, and it is page 33. The word was found in this sentence: "Ke Kula o Manoa" (The Mānoa School). Let's click on the first little symbol (the text symbol) for this newspaper page, and we will see:
Now, scroll down and you will see this:
The yellow helps you to find the word. Here it says that the Mānoa school had a person named Kamakea as the teacher (kumu). There were 59 children in all (nā keiki a pau), with 31 studying reading (heluhelu). Remember, you can go to the top of this page and click on "Hawaiian Nūpepa Collection" to go to the newspapers main page, here:
Or, you can always click on "Ulukau" at the top of any page to go back to the main entrance. Continue to next section...
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