Samoa -- Reference Sources

 

Compiled by Dr Karen Peacock

Pacific Curator, Hamilton Library

University of Hawai‘i at Manoa

Email: peacock@hawaii.edu

 

 

Bibliographies

 

Holmes, Lowell, ed.

Samoan Islands bibliography.  Wichita, Kansas:  Poly Concepts Pub. Co., 1984.  329p.  *Pacc DU813 .H63 1984

 

Hughes, H.G.A.

Samoa:  American Samoa, Western Samoa, Samoans abroad.  Oxford:  Clio Press, 1997.  342p.  World bibliographical series; v. 196.  Includes Indexes.  342p.  *Pacc DU813 .H83 1997

 

Pereira, Janet Aileen.

A check list of selected material on Samoa.  Western Samoa:  Samoan History Writing Project, USP, 1983-1985.  2v.  v.1 General bibliography.  v.2 Agriculture. *Pacc DU815 .P47 1983

 

Samoa:  A national bibliography.  Compiled by the 7th Pacific Festival of Arts Book Exhibition Committee.  Apia, Western Samoa:  Tautai Press, 1996.  134p.  *Pacc DU813 .S24 1996

 

 

Guidebooks

 

Talbot, Dorinda.

Samoa:  Independent & American Samoa. 3rd ed.  Hawthorn, Vic.;  Lonely Planet, 1998.  193p.  Pacc DU813 .S96 1998

 

 

Dictionaries

 

Milner, George B.

Samoan Dictionary:  Samoan-English, English-Samoan.  Auckland:  Polynesian Press, 1993.  464p.  *Pacc PL6501 .Z5 M54 1993

 

 

Periodicals

 

Samoa News.  Pago Pago, American Samoa:  Samoa News Ltd., 1969-  Daily, Mon. through Fri.  Pacc Newspaper Stacks

 

Samoa Observer.  Apia, Western Samoa, 1978-  .  Weekly.  Pacc Newspaper Stacks.

 

Talamua.  Apia, Western Samoa:  Talamua Publications, 1994- . Monthly. Pacc DU819 .A2 T34

 

 

Statistics

 

American Samoa statistical digest.   Pago Pago:  American Samoa Development Planning Office, 1978-     .  Pacc HA4018.5 .A27  (latest is 1996)

 

Country Profile.  Fiji, Solomon Islands, Western Samoa, Vanuatu, Tonga.  London:  The Economist Intelligence Unit, 1986-    .  annual.  *Pacc HC681 .A1 Q372

 

Also quarterly report under Country Report.  Pacific Islands:  Fiji, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, Western Samoa.  *Pacc HC681 .A1 Q37 

 

1990 Census of population and housing.  Social, economic, and housing characteristics:  American Samoa.  Washington, DC:  US Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census, 1992.  *Pacc HA4018.5 .A4 1990

 

Osman, Wali M.

Western Samoa economic report, March 1997.  Honolulu, HI:  Bank of Hawaii, Economics Dept., 1997.  20p.

Pacc HC687.5 .O86 1997

 

Western Samoa.  Dept. of Statistics.

Statistical abstract.  Apia, 1973/74-    .

Pacc HA4007 .S46 A32   (latest rec'd is 1996, rec'd in 1998)

 

Western Samoa.  National Planning Office.

Western Samoa seventh national development plan, 1992-1994.  Apia, 1992.  98p.  Pacc HC 687.5 .W48 1992

 

 

                                        K.Peacock      July 2001