One of the primary functions of a library is to be a place (whether in a physical location or online) where knowledge is collected, organized and made accessible to its users.
The Library website is the primary gateway to all of the Library's resources, including the catalog to find physical books, newspapers, magazines, films and maps in the library, as well as links to electronic databases providing thousands of full-text articles, streaming films, images, and electronic books.
Don't confuse the medium with the message. The Web is the delivery platform, not the content of the library pages you view. Most of the full-text resources are not freely available to everyone on the Web, but require a current affiliation with the UH System. The UH Libraries pay for the subscriptions to these academic databases, which are part of the "deep web", just as they pay for books and magazine subscriptions on the library shelves.
What you find on library Web pages is:
What you find on the open web is:
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The library's holdings have shifted to include a larger proportion of electronic resources than the print resources currently housed in the physical library on the KauaŹ»i CC campus. For example, we have online subscriptions to > 160,000 electronic books, 25,000 journal/magazines, 838 reference books and >20,000 streaming films. All of these electronic resources are located in databases that can be accessed 24/7. Databases are essential tools for research in college because they make searching for credible information more efficient and give you access to information that you cannot access freely on the Internet.