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Edited by: Dr T.Matthew Ciolek

The Pacific Studies WWW Monitor: Sep 2000
Vol. 1, No. 6

27 Sep 2000

Pacific Studies Research Resources at VUW
Library, Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), Wellington, NZ
Site contents: VUWCAT & search hints; Article indexes & databases; Dictionaries, encyclopaedias, Bibliographies; Electronic journals; Parliamentary Papers; Periodicals; Theses; Useful websites;
URL http://www.vuw.ac.nz/library/liaison/pacificstudies.html
Link suggested by: Teresia Teaiwa (teresia.teaiwa@vuw.ac.nz)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

27 Sep 2000

Pacific Studies Programme at Victoria U. of Wellington
Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), Wellington, NZ
Self-description: "[A] new major, introduced for the first time in 2000. As citizens of a Pacific nation, New Zealand graduates must be well-informed about the Pacific region. Pacific Studies is multidisciplinary, and studies the histories, cultures, languages, ideas and traditions of the indigenous peoples of the islands of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia."
Site contents: About Pacific Studies; Requirements for a BA major in Pacific Studies; What are approved and related papers?; First-year papers; 200-level papers; 300-level papers; How to find out more.
URL http://www.vuw.ac.nz/home/undergraduate/subjects/pasi.html
Link suggested by: Teresia Teaiwa (teresia.teaiwa@vuw.ac.nz)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

22 Sep 2000

Dan MacMeekin - Island Law
Dan MacMeekin, Attorney at Law, Washington, DC, USA
Self-description: "Island Law: The legal and political relationships between islands and the rest of the world, with a particular focus on Micronesia and other islands of the Pacific."
Site contents: Library (Articles, Documents [incl. 'The Convention on the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean, signed in Honolulu, Hawaii on Sep 5, 2000' - ed.], Other); Island Links (Legal documents available online at other sites, Island sites particularly useful to the online and offline researcher, Online news from the Pacific islands); Biography; Contact.
[A well organised and well annotated, facts-orientated site - ed.]
URL http://macmeekin.com
Link suggested by: Dan MacMeekin (dan@macmeekin.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents/Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

13 Sep 2000

arTok: Pacific Arts and Culture Online
ABC Arts Online, Sydney, Australia
Supplied note: "arTok is a joint ABC Arts Online and Radio Australia initiative. The site provides information on traditional music and dance, tapa, sculpture, body art, performance and regional arts issues. arTok is tri-lingual: Tok Pisin, English and French. Web coverage of the 8th Festival of Pacific Arts is also available. arTok aims to stimulate regional discussion on Pacific arts and cultural practice."
[The web site is currently (early Sep 2000) under construction. A dedicated 'arTok' mailing list is ready for subscription. The site has a chance to be an unique and valuable resource - ed.]
URL http://arts.abc.net.au/artok/
Link suggested by: Andrew Garton (garton.andrew@abc.net.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide/Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

11 Sep 2000

Treaties and Constitutions, Oct 2000
Department of History, University of Newcastle, Australia
Self-description: "'Treaties and Constitutions: Representing Indigenous Peoples in the Pacific.' 13 Oct 2000, The Customs House, Newcastle. This one-day symposium will address the present difficulties of reconciling indigenous cultures in Australia and Fiji with cultural assumptions about law and governance derived from the Anglo-American historical experience."
URL http://www.newcastle.edu.au/department/hi/treaties/
Link suggested by: David Lemmings (hidfl@cc.newcastle.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

07 Sep 2000

Environmental Ethics of Pacific Region
University of Guam, Mangilao, Guam, USA
Supplied note: "You are cordially invited to present a paper and participate as a member on a panel concerning Environmental Ethics at the 10th Pacific Science Inter-Congress. The panel deals with contemporary issues in environmental ethics such as ecological feminism, deep ecology, sentient and anthropocentric approaches. We especially seek papers that integrate Asian and Pacific Island approaches to environmental ethics, but any serious discussion of environmental ethics will be considered.
The conference will be sponsored by the University of Guam, and will take place from June 1-6, 2001."
URL http://www.10psicguam.org/
Link suggested by: James D. Sellmann (jsellman@uog9.uog.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

03 Sep 2000

Micronesian Seminar (MicSem) Library Catalog
Micronesian Seminar, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia
Supplied note: "15,000 titles of the Micronesian Seminar Library, one of the best specialized collections on Micronesia anywhere in the world, are now searchable online. Search by author, title, subject, category or year of publication. E-mail the MicSem library to request copies of publications."
Self-description: "Micronesian Seminar (MicSem) (www.micsem.org) is a research-pastoral institute founded by the Catholic Church in 1972. Its main mission is community education, although it has engaged in social research and history. For over 25 years, MicSem has served the people of what was once the Trust Territory of the Pacific--the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, the Marshall Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands."
URL http://www.micsem.org/search.htm
Link suggested by: Donald H. Rubinstein (rubinste@uog9.uog.edu), forwarded by Arlene Cohen (acohen@uog9.uog.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

01 Sep 2000

Pacific Collections - National Library of Australia
National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note: "A new Pacific Collections page for the National Library of Australia's collections on the Pacific region, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea is at [the URL below] It includes formed collections such as the famous Ferguson and Nan Kivell Collections, manuscript collections, microforms, a history of the NLA Pacific collections, collection guides and bibliographies, publications and reports and Internet resources."
URL http://www.nla.gov.au/collect/pacificcoll.html
Link suggested by: Andrew Gosling (agosling@nla.gov.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents/Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

01 Sep 2000

Port Moresby Chamber of Commerce and Industry
POMCCI, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Supplied note: "Port Moresby's leading business organisation."
Site contents: From the President; Executive; Minutes of Executive Meetings; Members; Links; Newsletters; POMCCI & membership; Code of Ethics; Upcoming Events; In The Press.
URL http://www.pomcci.org.pg/
Link suggested by: James Chin (jameschin@bigfoot.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

01 Sep 2000

PNG National Events Council
PNG National Events Council, Waigani, NCD, Papua New Guinea
Supplied note: "PNG National Events Council was set up for PNG 24th Anniversary."
Site contents: Overview of Events; Competitions; Medals; News; Donations; Young Achievers Award; About the National Events Council; Links; Programme (July, August, September 2000).
URL http://www.pngevents.org.pg/
Link suggested by: James Chin (jameschin@bigfoot.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

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