Hawaii State Public Library System

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The Hawaiʻi State Library is the seat of the Hawaiʻi State Public Library System, one of the largest free lending libraries in the United States.

The Hawaiʻi State Public Library System is the only statewide public library system in the United States and is one of the largest. Its headquarters is at a historic downtown Honolulu building called the Hawaiʻi State Library, built in 1911 by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. A reincarnation of the library system of the former Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, the system has 51 libraries on all the major Hawaiian Islands: Big Island of Hawaiʻi, Kauaʻi, Lānaʻi, Maui, Molokaʻi and Oʻahu. The state's collection of books totals over three million. There is one library for the visually impaired and physically disabled, located on Oʻahu.

As part of the most centralized public education system in the country, the principal administrator of the Hawaiʻi State Public Library System is the Governor of Hawaiʻi. His or her authority is passed through the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education and a limited authority Board of Education which hires a state librarian. The state librarian in turn appoints the librarians that head the fifty individual branches.

[edit] List of public libraries

Big Island (13)
- Bond Memorial Public Library
- Hilo Public Library
- Hōlualoa Public Library
- Honokaʻa Public Library
- Kailua-Kona Public Library
- Keaʻau Public and School Library
- Kealakekua Public Library
- Laupāhoehoe Public and School Library
- Mountain View Public and School Library
- Nāʻālehu Public Library
- Pāhala Public and School Library
- Pāhoa Public and School Library
- Thelma Parker Memorial Public and School Library
Kauaʻi (6)
- Hanapēpē Public Library
- Kapaʻa Public Library
- Kōloa Public and School Library
- Līhuʻe Public Library
- Princeville Public Library
- Waimea Public Library
Lānaʻi (1)
- Lānaʻi Public and School Library
Maui (6)
- Hana Public and School Library
- Kahului Public Library
- Kīhei Public Library
- Lahaina Public Library
- Makawao Public Library
- Wailuku Public Library

Salt Lake Moanalua Public Library sits on the campus of Āliamanu Elementary and Middle Schools in the suburbs of Honolulu.

Molokaʻi (1)
- Molokaʻi Public Library
Oʻahu (24)
- ʻAiea Public Library
- ʻĀina Haina Public Library
- ʻEwa Beach Public and School Library
- Hawaiʻi Kai Public Library
- Hawaiʻi State Library
- Kahuku Public and School Library
- Kailua Public Library
- Kaimukī Public Library
- Kalihi-Pālama Public Library
- Kāneʻohe Public Library
- Kapolei Public Library
- Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
- Liliha Public Library
- Mānoa Public Library
- McCully-Mōʻiliʻili Public Library
- Mililani Public Library
- Pearl City Public Library
- Salt Lake/Moanalua Public Library
- Wahiawā Public Library
- Waialua Public Library
- Waiʻanae Public Library
- Waikīkī-Kapahulu Public Library
- Waimānalo Public & School Library
- Waipahu Public Library