Photo by Tom Brown. In 1991 the University of Hawaii Library received a federal grant for a pilot project to create a digitized database using the Trust Territory Archives Photo Collection. This page provides background information on the University of Hawaii Pacific Collection, the history of the Trust Territory Archives, and the digitizing project. It is hoped that this publication will disseminate information on a valuable scholarly resource. The project involves expanding access to the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Photo Collection.
Details are available in the grant application .
The project was designed to inventory and select significant items from the Trust Territory Archives Photograph Collection, add descriptive information to the existing bibliographic records, scan photographs and slides to produce a digital image file, and link the digitized image to the online catalog record. After initial research and procurement processing, a microcomputer, scanner and software for scanning production were set up in January 1992. Ms. Chantiny and Ms. Rabinko crated processing procedures and learned to use the scanning software and equipment and CARL software used to update the bibliographic records. As the work proceeded, inventory and rehousing was also done. Pacific Curator Karen Peacock surveyed each set of photographs and selected those which would become part of the digitized database.