Report: Hawaii State Archive Plans to Digitize Pearl Harbor Memorial Records

From the  Honolulu Star-Advertiser (via Military.com):

The Hawaii State Archive is cataloging documents and records from the Pacific War Memorial Commission, chronicling how the state raised money to commemorate the Dec. 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor attack by Japan.

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“We’ve always had these records, but we never really dove into them, ” said state Archivist Adam Jansen.

State archivists hope to make records and documents available digitally in two years for the 85th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack. But it’s a delicate process.

“We have the capability, ” said Jansen. “We just need to do it very carefully, because given its age, it is possible that it could fall apart.”

Jansen said that the goal of digitizing records is to make them available for people who might not have the time or ability to come to the archives physically. But he stressed that it’s important to maintain the physical documents themselves.

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