EVols
Encyclopedia
eVols is a digital repository for the University of Hawaii at Manoa
University of Hawaii at Manoa
The University of Hawaii at Mānoa is a public, co-educational university and is the flagship campus of the greater University of Hawaii system...

 Hamilton Library which stores and maintains information in digital format. It provides a home for material which the library digitizes as part of grant projects and digital library program initiatives.

A digital repository, or digital library
Digital library
A digital library is a library in which collections are stored in digital formats and accessible by computers. The digital content may be stored locally, or accessed remotely via computer networks...

, is a collection of digital files accessible electronically and differs from microform or print.

eVols' mission statement is "to create and make available digitized surrogates from unique library collections and to provide access via a permanent web location" . eVols stores digitized rare books, archived newspapers, full-text journals, photographs, video, and sound files.

The Library gratefully acknowledges funding received from the National Endowment for the Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities
The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal agency of the United States established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. The NEH is located at...

, the Library of Congress
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...

, and the Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance.

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