The 95,000-square-foot (8,800 m2) Hamilton Library is home to the music collection, course reserve reading service, Wong Audiovisual Center, and older, bound journals.

Through their instructional activities, the Library faculty support the Mānoa General Education and other campus requirements for student information literacy.

[4] Materials related to Korean studies are located in the East (한글(Hangul/Korean) and Asia Collection (English & other western languages) of Hamilton Library.

For this collection, the South Asia region includes Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

The regions covered in the collection include: Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Timor Lestem Vietnam.

The Pacific Collection is internationally recognized for the excellence of its holdings and has materials relating to the island regions of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.

The Archives & Manuscript unit also includes the Hawaii War Records Depository (HWRD) and the Japanese American Veterans Collection (JAVC).

The UH Manoa Library maintains memberships in academic and professional consortia and organizations including: The University of Hawai'i is a participant in the Open access (publishing) community.

In December 2010 the faculty of the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa committed to disseminating its research and scholarship as widely as possible by adopting an Open Access Policy.

[8] (See: Open access mandate) ScholarSpace is an institutional repository for the digital scholarly output for the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM) faculty, researchers and students.

The digital repository serves to capture, index, store, makes searchable, disseminate, and preserve digital materials which include scholarly communications, theses and dissertations, technical reports, teaching materials, images, multimedia clips, interactive teaching programs, data sets, and databases.

The project focuses on developing a system to support the storage and use of digital materials for undergraduate, graduate, and faculty learning and other purposes.

Communities are groups that present content to the database and may include departments, labs, research centers, schools, or another unit within an institution.

eVols stores digitized rare books, archived newspapers, full-text journals, photographs, video, and sound files.