The Edwin H. Mookini Library, completed in 1981, is located in the heart of the campus.

Available to students are 260,000 bound volumes and 1,100 current periodicals from Hawai'i, the U.S. mainland, Asia, and Europe. Special formats collected include films, audio and video cassettes, slides, compact disks and microforms. In addition, the library is a depository for both United States and Hawai'i State documents and currently holds more than 350,000 U.S. documents. The Hawaiian Collection room houses the library's extensive Hawaiiana holdings. To ensure student proficiency in use of these collections, the Library offers a comprehensive program of library instruction.

Library materials aside, the Mookini Library provides other services and facilities that further the academic mission of the University. Other facilities in the library include ample audio visual playback equipment as well as computers with software for course work and connections to the Internet. Students may also confer in the library's group study rooms located throughout the building.

Computer technology is increasingly used to meet the information needs of the University community. The Library's catalog is now available on Hawai'i Voyager, a Web-based library management system. The library's reference service is enhanced by dozens of online databases. Cataloging and interlibrary loans of materials take place through the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), an online library network consisting of 41,000 member libraries in 82 countries and territories. This network provides the University community ready access to materials from the University of Hawai'i system libraries and other cooperating institutions.

Contact information:

Edwin H. Mookini Library
200 W. Kawili Street
Hilo, HI 96720-4091
Phone: (808) 974-7346
Fax: (808) 974-7329
TTY: (808) 974-7311
email: mookini@hawaii.edu