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UH astronomers set open house
The University of Hawai'i Institute for Astronomy will hold an open house at its Manoa headquarters from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Visitors will be able to view sunspots and Venus, make a miniature comet, make impact craters like those on the moon, grind a telescope mirror and launch a bottle rocket.
There will be research exhibits. Tours of the Machine Shop and the Instrumentation Laboratories will take place beginning at 10:30 a.m.
Scientists also will give short lectures on topics such as the telescopes on Mauna Kea, active galaxies, the danger of asteroids approaching Earth, archeoastronomy in Hawai'i, and dark matter.
The institute is at 2680 Woodlawn Drive, next to the Manoa Public Library and across the street from Noelani School. Admission and parking will be free.
For more information, and the lecture schedule, call the Open House Hot Line at 956-6531 or check the Institute Web site.
Japanese author's widow helps UH
The library at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa has received a $5,000 donation for its Kajiyama Collection from the widow of contemporary novelist Toshiyuki Kajiyama.
The donation will be used to help purchase a flat file case for storage of maps that are part of the collection. The flat file will improve access to and preservation of the maps, said Tokiko Bazzell, Japan specialist at the library.
As part of the Japan Collection in Hamilton Library's Asia Collection, the Kajiyama Collection represents the author's personal library. The core of the collection comprises 1,500 volumes on Korea and more than 100 maps of Korea. Most are maps of colonial Korea (1910-45), and some date back to 1905.
The Kajiyama Collection contains more than 7,000 titles, including extensive historical documents on Japanese emigration to North and South America and Hawai'i; Japanese colonization activities in Asia; and historical, political and economic books on Japan from the Edo to post-World War II period. Also included are Kajiyama publications and source materials.
The Kajiyama Collection was donated to the university in 1976.
