About Our Collection
Government Printing Office publications housed in the Federal Documents Section are classified under the Superintendent of Documents Classification system and organized by federal agencies. GPO documents housed in other Hawaii State Library sections are organized by the Dewey Decimal Classification system. Materials received from commercial publishers and housed in the Federal Documents Section are classified using the Dewey Decimal Classification system.
Our collection is for reference use only and may not be listed in the library's online public catalog.
Selected Section Holdings
- Patent and Trademark Information at the Hawaii State Library (pdf) [143KB]
- List of Magazine/Journal Titles (pdf) [100KB]
Free Access to Subscription Databases
(available only in the Federal Documents Section)
- The Documents Access & Retrieval Test System (DARTS) is a searchable on-line library of downloadable documents from the Department of Energy, NASA, the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIE) and the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). Subjects covered vary from physics, chemistry, medicine and biology to natural resources & earth sciences.
- Homeland Security Digital Library is an extensive collection of documents relating to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. It consists of a wide range of materials, both contemporary and historical, from a variety of sources including state and local governments, international governments and institutions, nonprofit organizations and private entities.
- NOAA Climatological Data provides daily and monthly climate normals by state, climate atlas maps, hourly precipitation data, storm data, and annual climatological summaries.
- Public Health Reports is the official journal of the U.S. Public Health Service. A bi-monthly, peer-reviewed journal, it publishes viewpoint, practice, and research articles on the major issues confronting the public health community.
- Stat-USA/Internet provides U.S. economic and financial data, international trade statistics and market research reports. It is divided into two parts: State of the Nation which tracks the direction of the U.S. economy with over 4,000 current statistical reports including the Statistical Abstract of the U.S. and GLOBUS & NTBT which has foreign market and industry profiles, World Bank publications, and the CIA World Factbook.
