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Government documents, maps and preservation staff unload a shipment of 4,500 Pacific maps. Photo by Ross Togashi.
The Map Collection Reopens
Manoa’s Hamilton Library resumed reference service for maps and aerial photographs in The Map Collection. The collection remained unavailable to patrons since the October 2004 flash flood on the Manoa campus, during which approximately 65 percent of the maps and all of its aerial photographs were destroyed.
Many of the maps salvaged from the flood were since cleaned by a document restoration firm and are once again available. The remaining maps are in the process of being cleaned and restored by the library’s preservation department. A significant number of maps also have been replaced with purchased or donated copies.
In addition, the library has also acquired digital images of aerial photographs of Hawai‘i from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Ocean Service and the U.S. Geological Survey. Efforts are currently underway to obtain additional Hawai‘i aerial photographs and to replace photos of the Pacific area.