World-class Library Collections
Library science is transforming at a rapid pace from stacks of books and periodicals to new electronic resources – and UH libraries are in the thick of it.
UH libraries house:
- more than 3 million books and journals
- a century of Hawaiian language newspapers
- the world’s largest collection of English-language documentary videos from Asia
- photo archives
- electronic journals
- digitized rare and historical documents
- congressional papers
- botanical and fine art prints
- other special collections
- computer labs
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Recent Library News
Oct. 27, 2009, Manoa — Craig Howes, director of the Center for Biographical Research, will discuss scholarly productions.
Oct. 16, 2009, System — An endowed gift will provide the UH Hilo library with resources to upkeep its collection.
Spotlight
Historical News Online
University of Hawai‘i at Manoa’s Hamilton Library received an award of $140,920 to support the continuation of the Hawai‘i Digital Newspaper Project for 2009-2010.
The Hawai‘i Newspaper Digitization Project, a part of the National Digital Newspaper Program, will digitize approximately 100,000 English-language newspaper pages between the years of 1880 and 1922 during the two-year grant period.
In addition to the Hawai‘i Ditigal Newspaper Project, Hamilton Library is involved in the Hawaiian Language Newspapers project to make select, heavily used Hawaiian language newspapers available online to students throughout the state of Hawai‘i.