Edwin H. Mookini Library

 
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AV Collection | Faculty Favorites | Government Documents | Hawaiian Collection | Maps | Microforms | Multimedia Materials | New Books | Newspapers | Periodicals | READ/ESL Collection | Reference Collection

AV Collection

Compact discs, videotapes, and DVDs are available to UH faculty and students. For more information, such as loan periods, go to the Audiovisual Service page. Browsable lists of CDs and DVDs are available.

Faculty Favorites

Reading entertains, informs, and enlightens. Reading shapes and refines how and what we write, how and what we think, and expands our understanding of the world.

The Faculty Favorites Collection is located on the Main Level near the newspaper and recreational reading areas. Its purpose is to provide students looking for a "good read" outside their class assignments. Included are classic and contemporary works of fiction and non-fiction. UHH faculty members list their favorite titles, and tell you how and why they were inspired and/or moved by them.

The Edwin H. Mookini Library Staff also recommend a list of books to relax with.

We hope that you enjoy reading their comments and check out the books they recommend!

Government Documents

Government documents are materials published by the federal government at government expense. They include Congressional hearings, departmental publications, maps, periodicals, labor statistics, the U.S. Census information, and much more. This library receives about 10% of all federal documents published.

Most documents in print are available on the Upper Level. Documents on CD and DVD-ROM are located in the Government Documents multimedia cabinet. Please consult a librarian at the Reference Desk for assistance.

Hawaiian Collection

The Hawaiian Collection is located on the Main Level adjacent to the Library PC Lab. The collection consists of monographs, periodicals, maps, pamphlets, and reprints that pertain to Hawai'i and Hawaiians. For more information, go to the Guide to the Hawaiian Collection.

Map Collection

The Library has an excellent collection of maps available at the following locations:

Reference Collection: Atlases are available on the shelves of the Reference Collection and on the nearby atlas stand. Duplicate, circulating copies of some of these atlases may also be found in the General and Hawaiian Collections. There are also a few globes that grace the Reference area.

Hawaiian Collection: Detailed US Geological Survey Maps of each island are found here, as are older Territorial Survey Maps of Hawai‘i Island. These maps are non-circulating. The Library also provides online access to the historical Digital Sanborn Maps for the state of Hawai‘i, going back to 1914 for some locales.

General Maps Collection: Maps for the World and various contries and regions, including those published by National Geographic Society, filed in drawers by region. CIA country and region maps are filed in a separate, nearby map case.

Microforms

Microfilm and Microfiche are space saving formats that contain many pages of information in a compact design. Self-service, coin-operated film and fiche readers for making copies are available on both the Main Level and the Upper Level. Microform collections on the Main Level include newspapers near the Current Periodicals and in the Hawaiian Collection. On the Upper Level, microform collections include Government Documents - including ERIC - near the GovDocs shelves.

Multimedia Materials

A very small collection of materials that is either on CD-ROM/DVD or uses more than one medium are kept behind the Circulation Desk. Titles can be found by searching Hawai‘i Voyager using "multimedia" as a call number.

New Books

Selected new books of popular interest to students and faculty are available on shelves near the newspaper and recreational reading area.

Newspapers

The Library subscribes to selected international and national newspapers as well as major Hawai‘i newspapers. Current newspaper reading area is on the Main floor. Back issues of newspapers for a three-month period are shelved nearby. Copies older than three months are available on microfilm on the Upper Level in Room 322.

Finding Information in Hawai‘i Newspapers - A research guide.

Newspaper Indexes:

Periodicals

Periodicals are items published on a periodic basis (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.): newspapers, magazines, and journals. Current issues of periodicals are available on the Main Level behind the Reference area. Older issues are available in the Periodical Backfiles section on the Upper Level. Some popular magazines, such as National Geographic and Hawaii Business, have their current year issues located at "Closed Shelves" behind Circulation Desk.

To find periodicals in the Mookini Library's collection, go to "UH Hilo - Basic Search" under Find Books and search the periodical by "Journal Title begins with." Or, use the Search Journal Titles box on the Find Articles page to locate journals accessible online or in print. Request IntraSystem Loan or Interlibrary Loan if it is not available in this Library.

READ/ESL Collection

Looking for a good book? Check out the READ Collection. You'll find light fiction from classic, contemporary, and local authors. There's also poetry, mythology, short stories, biographies, and non-fiction. Titles are on the Web at the Read Collection Web site. The ESL collection consists of books of easy reading for English as a Second Language students.

Reference Collection

Need some information quickly and you don't need to read a whole book on the subject? Use the extensive collection of almanacs, atlases, dictionaries, encyclopedias, statistical sources, bibliographies, and other reference publications that are located on the Main Level in our Reference Collection. These books are for Library use only in order to be available to all users at all times.