The current status of University of Hawaii at Manoa Library Pacific-related image collections, the Pacific Collection future plans and wish lists for digitization of additional collections and their relationship with existing collections in the ODiL will be described. Hawaii-related collections of images (Save our Surf) as well as text (Hawaiian Historical Society) will be highlighted and recent experiments with updating the Annexation of Hawaii web site and the UHM Library’s participation in the U.S. National Digital Newspaper Program will also be described.

The Pacific Rim Library (PRL – pronounced “pearl”, formerly PRDLA Archive) is an ongoing project to collocate metadata from PRDLA member digitization projects and to maximize exposure of the metadata to the large data aggregators.  The project was launched in 2005 as a pilot to test the use of OAI-PMH. The PRL server repository is [...]

Brian Flaherty, Assistant University Librarian-Library IT, University of Auckland Martha Chantiny, Division Head for Library Information Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa Robin Chandler, Director, Digital Library Program, University of California, San Diego ODiL began with a request for US$50,000 to digitize items from the libraries of the University of Auckland, the University of Hawaii [...]

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