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20-600: Conceived by Henry E. "Harry" Maude , lands commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony , and approved by His Excellency Sir Harry Luke , Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner of the Western Pacific , the goal of the project was to reduce overpopulation in the southern Gilbert Islands by developing three mostly uninhabited atolls in the Phoenix Islands archipelago : A secondary goal

40-519: A diverse range of records, copied from following documents: The Pacific Manuscripts Bureau microfilm collection is divided into three series: Unpublished records of organisations and people associated with the Pacific Islands. Records include manuscripts, diaries, minutes, correspondence, linguistic materials and research papers. Published material including newspapers, newsletters and other serials published by organisations with interests in

60-634: A post office and issue stamps in order to generate revenue for the people of the island. During this time, Maude and his wife collected a great number of Polynesian archaeological items found on the Pitcairn Islands, later donated to the Auckland War Memorial Museum in New Zealand . The almost 1,500 item collection composes the largest known collection of cultural artefacts from the islands. Maude spent much time in

80-795: The Australian National University in Canberra . He has published widely on aspects of Pacific Islands history, was a co-founder of the Journal of Pacific History , and played an important role in establishing the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau . He was the husband of Honor Courtney Maude (née King) , a British-Australian authority on Oceanic string figures . She predeceased him, dying in 2001 in Canberra , aged 95. Maude died, aged 100, on 4 November 2006. The bulk of Maude's personal papers are held at

100-581: The Barr Smith Library at the University of Adelaide , where an extensive set of pages devoted to his life and work can be found. He published the work of Sir Arthur Grimble . Pacific Manuscripts Bureau The Pacific Manuscripts Bureau is a non-profit organisation sponsored by an international consortium of libraries specialising in Pacific research. The Pacific Manuscripts Bureau

120-713: The British colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands , serving as land commissioner before WWII then, after the Japanese occupation of the Gilbert Islands , as Resident Commissioner from 1946 to 1949. From 1949 to 1955, he worked for the South Pacific Commission . From 1957 to 1961, he was a Research Fellow at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), which is part of

140-615: The Pacific Islands . Maude's Paper recommended the proposed Pacific Islands Manuscripts Clearing Centre be established at the Australian National University (ANU), the only institution in the world at that time with a Department of Pacific History. The Australian National University supported Maude's proposal and invited the National Library of Australia , National Library of New Zealand ,

160-553: The 1960s. The Bureau is based at the Australian National University in the College of Asia and the Pacific and is sponsored by an international consortium of Pacific research libraries. Each member Library has the complete PMB Collection. The Libraries are: The Pacific Manuscripts Bureau collection is the most extensive collection of non-government primary documentation on the Pacific Islands available to researchers. The Archive includes in excess of 4000 microfilm reels comprising

180-540: The Bureau is to help with long-term preservation of the documentary heritage of the Pacific Islands and to make it accessible. To this end the Bureau undertakes fieldwork in the Pacific Islands to copy archives, manuscripts and rare printed material, particularly when the material is in danger of loss or destruction. Island based records have been identified as most at risk due to climatic factors and lack of trained staff to care for them. Fieldwork reports can be found on

200-567: The Bureau when he discussed the need for interlibrary co-operation in the copying of documents of Pacific interest for Pacific researchers with Dr Floyd Cammack, University of Hawaii in December 1962. Dr Cammack proposed an association of Pacific research libraries and contacted potential members, winning support from Gordon Richardson, Mitchell Librarian and Principal Librarian of the NSW Public Library . In 1966 Richardson pursued

220-507: The Bureau's website. The Bureau has an interest in copying archives relating to the Pacific in major collections throughout the world, including member libraries. An earlier co-operative microfilming project, The Australian Joint Copying Project, achieved some success. In its 45-year history it microfilmed a large number of Pacific manuscripts in the United Kingdom, many identified by Mitchell Librarian, Phyllis Mander-Jones during

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240-601: The Mitchell Library ( State Library of New South Wales ), and the University of Hawaii to sponsor and establish the Centre effective 1 January 1968. The Pacific Islands Manuscripts Clearing Centre was declared fully operational under the name Pacific Manuscripts Bureau on 1 July 1968 with Robert Langdon , then editor of the Pacific Islands Monthly , appointed to manage the Bureau. The aim of

260-618: The Pacific Islands. Records of the Catholic Church in islands of the Western Pacific. Includes all six dioceses: Tonga, Samoa and Tokelau, Wallis and Futuna, Port Vila, Nouméa, Suva. The records are indexed in the guide: The Catholic Church in the Western Pacific: a guide to records on microfilm . The catalogue has been digitised and can be accessed on the Bureau's website. The Pacific Manuscripts Bureau collection also includes audio and photographic collections. Access to

280-547: The collection is via the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau online catalogue. This can be freely searched on the Internet by researchers to find relevant documents. Most of these documents are microfilm copies of originals held in archives and libraries throughout the Pacific. However, the Bureau is in the process of digitising its microfilm collections. Member libraries have access to these digital collections via

300-514: The idea of a joint copying scheme and with the University of Hawaii requested Maude produce a paper to make the scheme a reality. Maude's Paper entitled: The Documentary Basis for Pacific Studies: a Report on Progress and Desiderata, was released in March 1967. It proposed setting up a Pacific Islands Manuscripts Clearing Centre to identify and obtain microfilm copies of unpublished documents on

320-551: The onset of the Second World War , the islands' isolation and the 1941 death on Nikumaroro of the project's officer in charge, 29-year-old civil servant Gerald Gallagher . After 1945 the three settlements continued to struggle with supply problems, limited markets for copra , the settlements' only major product, and drought , until the British government determined the colony could not be self-sustaining and evacuated

340-401: The settlers in 1963, ending the project. The Phoenix Islands are part of Kiribati and in 2005 were officially uninhabited except for a few families on Kanton Island ( census population 61 in 2000 and 41 in 2005). Harry Maude Henry Evans Maude , OBE (1 October 1906 – 4 November 2006) was a British Colonial Service administrator, historian and anthropologist . Maude

360-633: Was born in Bankipore , India . Educated at Highgate School from 1921 to 1925, and Jesus College, Cambridge , Maude represented India at rifle-shooting in 1926. He spent the years 1929–48 working as a civil servant and administrator in various Pacific Islands . Between 1940 and 1941, Maude was sent to the Pitcairn Islands by the Western Pacific High Commission , to modernise the government, and to establish

380-411: Was formed in 1968 to copy archives, manuscripts and rare printed material relating to the Pacific Islands. The aim of the Bureau is to help with long-term preservation of the documentary heritage of the Pacific Islands and to make it accessible. Pacific scholar Harry E. Maude , Department of Pacific History at the Australian National University from 1958, was the first to conceptualise the workings of

400-577: Was to enhance the British presence in the western Pacific in response to growing American influence through the Guano Islands Act , especially on Canton (later Kanton ), where a commercial seaplane base was being established. The three atolls, Sydney, Hull, and Gardner, were renamed in Gilbertese as Manra Island , Orona Atoll , and Nikumaroro respectively. Colonisation efforts by Gilbertese settlers were almost immediately hampered by

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