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- digitized rare and historical documents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
Jan. 29, 2010, Windward Manoa — The traveling exhibit features botanical prints and rare orchids native to the Hawaiian Islands.
Jan. 28, 2010, Manoa — The China Collection will be on display from January 27 through February 28 during building hours.
Spotlight
Digital Video Collection Online
University of Hawai‘i at Manoa’s Sinclair Library offers digitized versions many of its older videos in the Hawaiian and Pacific collections. The digitized videos are available online.
Video formats have gone through many changes in the past few decades. Over time, the library has acquired filmstrips, U-Matic tapes, Beta tapes, laserdiscs, VHS tapes and now DVDs. Many of the tapes are deteriorating and the older formats are becoming obsolete.
Sinclair Library is reformatting as many of these older videos as possible. The library uses QuickTime to create compressed versions of the archival digital copies. Highlights of the video reformatting project include Keiki Hula and Hugh Gibb’s films on the Philippines.
Visit the video archive.