Office of the Governor

Feleti Barstow Public Library, the designated State Library Administrative Agency for the U.S. Territory of American Samoa, will expand electronic access to the Polynesian Photo Archives (PPA) and sustain regional access to databases. Established in 2000, the PPA collection contains nearly 800,000 images related to the territory’s history, traditions, and culture. Funds will support staffing and archival processing costs to ensure that historic still and moving images from the American Samoa government are preserved and made accessible to the public. As the founding member of the Information Literacy Consortium, a regional collective of libraries in the U.S.-affiliated Pacific region, Feleti Barstow Public Library will also support continued access to EBSCOHost databases.