State funding for the Bishop Museum - Legislative Reference Bureau

STATE FUNDING FOR THE BISHOP MUSEUM
(4) Newspaper and magazine stories on Hawaii published by local and
national news organizations, such as United Press International,
Associated Press, and National Geographic magazine.
The library is also used in conjunction with exhibits by other
institutions that may borrow materials in the collections for exhibition away
from Bishop Museum, or may require Museum staff assistance in conducting
exhibition-related research. Among the major recent exhibitions that used
library staff assistance and collections in both research and loans were
"Magnificent Voyagers: The U. S. Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842" at the
Smithsonian Institution, "Captain George Vancouver--A Voyage of Discovery"
at the Vancouver Museum, and "A More Perfect Union: Japanese-Americans
and the U.S. Constitution", on exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum
of Natural History. ''
Many of the items in the Bishop Museum library collections are not
available elsewhere. Those who are interested in these materials must consult
the Bishop Museum collection.
The Bishop Museum library is a participant in inter-library loan. In
fiscal year 1986, the requests to the Bishop Museum library for loans and
photocopies of materials in the collections outnumbered materials the Bishop
Museum requested from other libraries."
Reference librarians and staff members at other institutions also
routinely refer requests for assistance in specialized areas of Hawaiian and
Pacific studies to the Bishop Museum. In fiscal year 1986, requests for
assistance were received from institutions including, but not limited to, the
University of Hawaii Hawaiian and Pacific Collections, the Hawaii State Library
System, the Hawaii Visitor's Bureau, several chambers of commerce, and other
reference services. In most cases information was requested, but sometimes
guidance in setting up a collection, specialized cataloguing or collection care
information, or other types of requests for professional assistance was
needed.